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  • Work and the Social Safety Net

    Labor Activation in Europe and the United States

    Edited by Douglas J. Besharov, Douglas M. Call ...
    Series series INTERNATIONAL POLICY EXCHANGE SERIES
    During the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the United States and much of the developed world were rocked by three successive economic shocks, each one more severe than the one before. Real relief from these economic shocks, of course, can only come from a restored economy--with balanced strength across many sectors and regions. Safety-net programs can also help alleviate this ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Family Policy Over The Life Course

    Edited by Mary Daly, Birgit Pfau-Effinger, Neil Gilbert, Douglas J. Besharov ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Handbook examines contemporary trends and issues in the formation of families over the different stages of the life cycle and how they interact with family-oriented social policies of modern welfare states, mainly in the OECD countries of Western Europe, East Asia and the U.S. Focusing largely on family needs in the early stages of the life course, the conventional package of policies tends to ... Read more

    $136.79 USD

  • Family and Child Well-being After Welfare Reform

    Edited by Douglas Besharov ...
    Since their historic high in 1994, welfare caseloads in the United States have dropped an astounding 59 percent--more than 5 million fewer families receive welfare. Family and Child Well-Being after Welfare Reform, now in paperback, explores how low-income children and their families are faring in the wake of welfare reform. Contributors to the volume include leading social researchers. Can ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Chinese Social Policy in a Time of Transition

    Edited by Douglas Besharov, Karen Baehler ...
    Series series International Policy Exchange
    The story of China's spectacular economic growth is well known. Less well known is the country's equally dramatic, though not always equally successful, social policy transition. Between the mid- 1990s and mid-2000s---the focal period for this book---China's central government went a long way toward consolidating the social policy framework that had gradually emerged in piecemeal fashion during ... Read more

    $104.39 USD

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  • Measuring the Global Shadow Economy

    The Prevalence of Informal Work and Labour

    by Colin C. Williams, Friedrich Schneider ...
    This book brings together two leading researchers in the field to provide a comprehensive overview of the shadow economy from a global perspective. Reviewing the advantages and disadvantages of different ways of measuring the informal sector, the authors evaluate its size and key determinants across the world. Williams and Schneider clearly establish the persistence and prevalence of the shadow ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Poor Numbers

    How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It

    by Morten Jerven ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Political Economy
    One of the most urgent challenges in African economic development is to devise a strategy for improving statistical capacity. Reliable statistics, including estimates of economic growth rates and per-capita income, are basic to the operation of governments in developing countries and vital to nongovernmental organizations and other entities that provide financial aid to them. Rich countries and ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Cultural Evolution

    by Ronald F. Inglehart ...
    Cultural Evolution argues that people's values and behavior are shaped by the degree to which survival is secure; it was precarious for most of history, which encouraged heavy emphasis on group solidarity, rejection of outsiders, and obedience to strong leaders. For under extreme scarcity, xenophobia is realistic: if there is just enough land to support one tribe and another tribe tries to claim ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Equality For Women: Where Do We Stand?

    by Buvinic Mayra; Morrison Andrew R.; Sjoblom Mirja; Ofosu-Amaah A. Waafas ...
    Upon signing the Millennium Declaration in 2000, the international community committed itself to eight development goals with timebound targets and measurable indicators. The third of these eight goals was to "promote gender equality and empower women". The third Millennium Development Goal (MDG3) in the Millennium Declaration has spurred national and international efforts to improve women's ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • A Sociology of Family Life

    Change and Diversity in Intimate Relations

    by Deborah Chambers, Pablo Gracia ...
    Family relations are undergoing dramatic changes globally and locally. At the same time, certain features of family life endure. This popular book, now in a fully updated second edition, presents a comprehensive assessment of recent research on 'family', parenting, childhood and interpersonal ties.A Sociology of Family Life queries assumptions about a disintegration of 'the family' by revealing a ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • A Republic of Equals

    A Manifesto for a Just Society

    by Jonathan Rothwell ...
    Why political inequality is to blame for economic and social injusticePolitical equality is the most basic tenet of democracy. Yet in America and other democratic nations, those with political power have special access to markets and public services. A Republic of Equals traces the massive income inequality observed in the United States and other rich democracies to politicized markets and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Global Shell Games

    Experiments in Transnational Relations, Crime, and Terrorism

    by Michael G. Findley, Daniel L. Nielson, J. C. Sharman ...
    Series Book 128 - Cambridge Studies in International Relations
    Every year a staggering number of unidentified shell corporations succeed in hiding perpetrators of terrorist financing, corruption and illegal arms trades, but the degree to which firms flout global identification standards remains unknown. Adopting a unique, experimental methodology, Global Shell Games attempts to unveil the sordid world of anonymous shell corporations. Posing as twenty-one ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Canadian Social Policy, Fifth Edition

    Issues and Perspectives

    Edited by Anne Westhues, Brian Wharf ...
    Social policy shapes the daily lives of every Canadian citizen and should reflect the beliefs of a majority of Canadians on just approaches to the promotion of health, safety, and well-being. Too often, those on the front lines—social workers, nurses, and teachers—observe that policies do not work well for the most vulnerable groups in society. In the first part of this new edition of Canadian ... Read more

    $53.29 USD