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Islam and Social Policy

At a time when more nuanced understandings of Muslim countries and their legal and social practices are urgently needed in the West, the appearance of this collection is especially welcome. In these illum…

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Maria Ignatova-Pfarr
Social Policy in Autocracies

This book examines the influence of authoritarian rule on the development of the welfare state. Building on theoretical approaches from research on autocratic regimes and comparative welfare state researc…

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John Berten
Laboratories of Social Knowledge

Palgrave Studies in Science, Knowledge and Policy

The book examines the politics of knowledge in global social policy, investigating how international organisations (IOs) have contributed to the emergence and development of social security as a global po…

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Robin Schulze Waltrup
Eco-Social Policy in the OECD and the World Bank

This book explores eco-social policy and its role in the global governance system. By focusing on the eco-social policy discourses of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and …

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Juhani Laurinkari
Changing Citizen-Oriented Social Policy in Changing Competitive Environments

The cooperative economy is, because it operates in the middle ground between the state and market capitalism, in addition to its economic aspirations, an effective citizen-oriented means of pre-venting an…

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Juhani Laurinkari
Changing Citizen-Oriented Social Policy in Changing Competitive Environments

The cooperative economy is, because it operates in the middle ground between the state and market capitalism, in addition to its economic aspirations, an effective citizen-oriented means of pre-venting an…

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Tomás Nougués
Social Debtfare Policies

The book examines the evolution of Argentina's welfare policies from 1983 to 2019, focusing on the historical connections between social policies, financial markets, and households---an area largely overl…

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Daniel Beland, Michal Koreh, Olivier Jacques
Taxation and Social Policy

Elements in Public Policy

This Element maps the relationship between taxation and social policy from a comparative and historical perspective. It critically reviews studies in fiscal sociology, history, political science, and poli…

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Michal Koreh, Olivier Jacques, Daniel Béland
Taxation and Social Policy

This Element maps the relationship between taxation and social policy from a comparative and historical perspective. It critically reviews studies in fiscal sociology, history, political science, and poli…

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Cam Donaldson
Financing Health and Social Care

Why do most capitalist economies have socialist health care systems? How can we preserve them? What would Aneurin Bevan think? These are the three main questions addressed by this book.In the 1950s, throu…

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Alfreda Alvarez Wubbenhorst, Byron R. Johnson, William Wubbenhorst
The Faith Factor and Social Welfare

The Faith Factor and Social Welfare: Evidence, Practice, Policy comprises case studies and impact evaluations on the important work done by faith-based organizations (FBOs) in the United States to address…

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Stefan Popov
The Risk Dimension

This book offers a conceptual framework for understanding risk, drawing on fifty years of sociology and philosophical modernity to explore key concepts such as uncertainty, danger, and threat. Stefan Popo…

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Alfreda Alvarez Wubbenhorst, Byron R. Johnson, William Wubbenhorst
The Faith Factor and Social Welfare

The Faith Factor and Social Welfare: Evidence, Practice, Policy comprises case studies and impact evaluations on the important work done by faith-based organizations (FBOs) in the United States to address…

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Language Diversity, Policy and Social Justice

This book honors the impactful work of Terrence G. Wiley on advancing social justice in the areas of language diversity and language policy. It brings together a group of experienced scholars to provide a…

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Pushing Boundaries in Social Work Around the World, Vol. 2

Part 1 Pushing Boundaries for Policy Practice.- Chapter 1 Exploited Capabilities: Reframing Undocumented Immigration and its Implications for International Social Work.- Chapter 2 Resistance as an Emotion…

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The State and the Imperative for Social Policy Reform in Africa

This concise and interdisciplinary open access volume explores the imperative of social policy reform in Sub-Saharan Africa and the potential nature of such a reform. Its chapters study social policy chan…

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Karen Edge
Global City School Leaders

Global City School Leaders provides a new and innovative approach to understanding the policy and practice of urban educational leadership. Building on generational, global city, and educational leadershi…

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Tracy C Maguze
The Governance of Macroprudential Policy

This book critically examines the theoretical foundations and legal framework for macroprudential policy, its tools and governance in the UK, the US, and the EU. It goes deeper into a normative discussion…

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Participatory Modelling and Simulation to Improve AI-based Public Social Services

Artificial Intelligence, Simulation and Society

This open access volume showcases a series of models - particularly agent-based simulations - that explore pressing issues on national policy agendas, engaging with frontier questions around artificial in…

lieferbar ab 28.4.2026.

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Constructing Worlds of Labour

This open access book simultaneously addresses both the segmenting and the egalitarian function of individual labour law, in almost all countries of the world, in some chapters following up from its origi…

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