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Pre-Owned The Policy-Based Profession: An Introduction to Social Welfare Policy Analysis for Social (Hardcover 9780205386635) by Professor Philip R Popple Leslie Leighninger

9780205386635. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. 3rd Revised ed. Language: English. Pages: 386. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 386 p. Contains: Illustrations. This social welfare policy text written specifically for use within the field of... more

Pre-Owned Policy-Based Profession The: An Introduction to Social Welfare Policy Analysis for Social Workers 9780134794297 Paperback 7 edition

9780134794297. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Paperback. Edition: 7. Language: English. Intended for college/higher education audience. Help students connect social policy to the everyday practice of social work The Policy-Based Profession provides... more

Studies in Government and Public Policy Politics of Problem Definition: Shaping the Policy Agenda (Paperback)

At the nexus of politics and policy development lies persistent conflict over where problems come from what they signify and based on the answers to those questions what kinds of solutions should be sought. Policy researchers call this process... more

Europe in Change: The Activation of Citizenship in Europe (Hardcover)

This instructive study examines how a transnational discourse on modern social policy - based the guiding principles of activation and an activating welfare state - intervenes in the concepts and practices of citizenship. more

Soft Governance in Hard Politics: European Coordination of Anti-Poverty Policies in France and Germany (Paperback)

The present study addresses the governance architecture of the much debated Open Method of Coordination (OMC) in the field of social inclusion and evaluates its implementation in France Germany and at EU-level. Based on extensive variable-based... more

Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democ Policy Responses to the Radical Right in France and Germany: Public Actors Policy Frames and Decision-Making (Paperback)

Based on research fieldwork conducted in France and Germany this study seeks to explain how public actors have taken part in the regulation of the expression of right-wing radicalism. The author compares these two neighbouring countries which have... more

Public Administration and Public Policy Politics of Preference: India United States and South Africa Book 193 (Hardcover)

Minorities based on whatever criteria--linguistic religious ethnic tribal racial or otherwise--share a distinctive contextual and social experience. Their representation in public service is important especially when there have been public policies... more

Welfare alternatives : a report with recommendations based upon the public welfare study of the Subcommittee on Fiscal Policy of the Joint Economic Committee Congress of the Unite

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Report on the personnel policies and practices of the Pan American Union; based on the report presented by the Committee of Experts on Personnel Management. 1952 [Leather Bound]

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Homelessness Amid Affluence: Structure and Paradox in the American Political Economy (Hardcover)

Approaching the problem of homelessness from a broad public policy perspective Lang focuses on the American political economy and how it permits community development patterns based on racism and self-interest. This interdisciplinary study... more

European Administrative Governance: Policy-Making in EU Security and Defense: An Institutional Perspective (Hardcover)

EU foreign policy has long been considered the exclusive domain of member states. This book challenges such state-centered wisdom by analyzing the influence of Brussels-based EU officials in the area of security and defence. Using case studies and... more

Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democ Counterterrorism in Turkey: Policy Choices and Policy Effects toward the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) (Paperback)

Counterterrorism in Turkey comprehensively analyses Turkey s counterterrorism policies in the context of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) an ethnicity-based guerrilla insurgency group employing terrorism. Contrary to most of the counterterrorism... more

Changing Urban Renewal Policies in China: Policy Transfer and Policy Learning Under Multiple Hierarchies (Hardcover)

This is a very rich monograph based on impressive fieldwork in China which demonstrates excellent qualitative and ethnographic research skills research integrity and cultural perceptiveness in the analysis. This book will make a great contribution... more

Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Transnational Architecture and Urbanism: Rethinking How Cities Plan Transform and Learn (Hardcover)

Transnational Architecture and Urbanism combines urban planning design policy and geography studies to offer place-based and project-oriented insight into relevant case studies of urban transformation in Europe North America Asia and the Middle... more

Pre-Owned What s Going On? : Political Incorporation and the Transformation of Black Public Opinion 9781589017023

Based on analysis of public opinion data since the 1970s this title examines how Black opinions on welfare affirmative action crime control school vouchers civil rights for other minorities immigration the environment and US foreign policy have... more

Containment : concept and policy : based on a symposium cosponsored by the National Defense University and the Foreign Service Institute / edited by Terry L. Deibel John Lewis Gad

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Routledge Advances in International Rela Politics and the Bomb: The Role of Experts in the Creation of Cooperative Nuclear Non-Proliferation Agreements (Hardcover)

Epistemic communities represent networks of knowledge-based experts that help articulate cause-and-effect relationships of complex problems define the self-interests of a state or formulate specific policies for state decision makers. However the... more

Routledge Studies on Comparative Asian Politics: Democratic Governance in Taiwan (Hardcover)

This book employs a policy-based approach to examine the emerging governance structure in Taiwan one of several countries in East Asia where democratic consolidation is firmly established. Each chapter provides a detailed investigation of reforms... more

Social and Economic Transitions in China and India: Welfare and Policy Changes (Hardcover)

This book conducts a comparative analysis of social and economic changes in the welfare state transformations in China and India at national and sub-national levels. Discussions are made based on impacts from the social and economic changes in the... more

Routledge Studies in Governance and Publ Governmentality after Neoliberalism (Paperback)

Neoliberalism has had a major impact on public policy but it has also perhaps obscured the equally dramatic spread of other policy tools based on significantly different forms of social science. This book therefore explores the mixture of social... more

Assessing Sanitation Policy: A Series of Wedc Briefing Notes (Paperback)

This series of Briefing Notes Assessing Sanitation Policy is based on lessons learned from national sanitation policy assessments carried out in Ghana and Nepal together with the review and assessment of sanitation policy in these and other... more

The Steppe and Beyond: Studies on Central Asia: Understanding Actors and Processes Shaping Transgender Subjectivities: A Case Study of Kazakhstan (Hardcover)

This book introduces the policies surrounding legal gender recognition of trans people in Kazakhstan. Generally the research in this sphere focuses on medical professions described as gatekeepers or judges deciding who fit the prescriptions of being... more

Evidence-Based Approaches to Peace and Conflict Studies: Shocks and Political Change: A Comparative Perspective on Foreign Policy Analysis (Hardcover)

Political shocks have come to be considered highly salient for explaining major changes to international politics and to the foreign policies of states. Such shocks can occur at all levels of analysis: domestically dyadically regionally or globally.... more

Soviet Policy Toward Israel Under Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev s rise to power in 1985 signalled the beginning of significant improvements in Soviet-Israeli relations--thoroughly examined in this carefully researched volume. Based on an analysis of Soviet behavior and interviews with Israeli... more

Pre-Owned Epigenetics and Public Policy: The Tangled Web of Science Politics (Hardcover 9781440844690) by Shea K. Robison

9781440844690. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Intended for college/higher education audience. The exciting field of epigenetics offers novel and unanticipated science-based insights into human origins and development. This... more

Pre-Owned Screwed : The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class -- and What We Can Do about It 9781576754634

Hartmann argues that the middle class is not the natural consequence of a free market based economy but rather the intended result of policies put into place to maximize the public good. Unfortunately he maintains the American middle class is on its... more

Environmental Politics and Theory: The Global Politics of Local Conservation (Hardcover)

This book examines the politics of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) in Namibia. CBNRM and similar forms of conservation across southern Africa have long been studied for their potential benefits as domestic policy tools to help... more

Edinburgh Studies on Modern Turkey: Turkish-Greek Relations: Foreign Policy in a Securitisation Framework (Hardcover)

The relationship with Greece has always been at the forefront in determining Turkish foreign policy. This book focuses broadly on the main issues of contention between Turkey and Greece and analyses Turkey s policies towards Greece based on the... more

Routledge Studies on the European Union and Global Order: The European Union and Global Development (Paperback)

This book systematically analyses the EU s commitment to a human rights-based approach to development through the lens of global justice theory. It identifies limits to the EU s approach and discusses how standardised policies particularly in the... more

Palgrave Studies in Digital Inequalities: Digital Inclusion: International Policy and Research (Hardcover)

This collection presents policy and research that addresses digital inequalities access and skills from multiple international perspectives. With a special focus on the impact of the COVID-19 the collection is based on the 2021 Digital Inclusion... more

Pre-Owned Social Work: An Empowering Profession (Paperback 9780134695792) by Brenda Dubois Karla Miley

9780134695792. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Paperback. Edition: 9. Language: English. Intended for college/higher education audience. Apply an empowerment perspective to the social work profession Using a discipline-based empowerment-oriented approach... more

China Policy The Politics of Expertise in China (Paperback)

Since the reform and opening-up policy was implemented in China consultations have been increasingly carried out during the policy-making process. This often involves experts many of whom are based in think-tanks or similar institutions. The degree... more

Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Security Threatened: Surveying Israeli Opinion on Peace and War (Paperback)

Public opinion has played a crucial role in the transitions from war to peace in Israel since the 1967 Six Day War. Security Threatened is the first major analysis of the interactions among opinion politics and policy in that period based on opinion... more

Palgrave Studies in Religion Politics and Policy: Faith-Based Organizations and Social Welfare: Associational Life and Religion in Contemporary Africa and Latin America (Hardcover)

The case studies in this volume examine the activities of faith-based institutions in a representative sample of African and Latin American countries including societies with and without a dominant religious tradition and states with different... more

Pre-Owned In/Security in Colombia: Writing Political Identities the Democratic Security Policy (Pre-Owned Hardcover 9780719079856) by Josefina A EchavarrÃa

9780719079856. Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 278. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 278 p. Contains: Unspecified. New Approaches to Conflict Analysis. Based on geo- and biopolitical analyses this book... more

Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice Change or Continuity in Drug Policy: The Roles of Science Media and Interest Groups (Paperback)

While evidence-based policy is an emerging rhetoric of the desire by and for governments to develop policies based on the best available evidence drug policy is an area where particular challenges abound. This book is a detailed and comprehensive... more

Routledge Contemporary Russia and Easter The Sense of Mission in Russian Foreign Policy (Hardcover)

This book explores how far messianism the conviction that Russia has a special historical destiny is present in and affects Russian foreign policy. Based on extensive original research including analysis of public statements policy documents and... more

Devolution Territorial Politics and Health Policy: UK Health Policy in Comparative Perspective (Paperback)

This study is the first large-scale comparison of policy and divergence in the UK since devolution. Based on extensive original research it argues that we see substantial divergence in policies and social citizenship among the four parts of the UK... more