Politics of risk-taking [[electronic resource] ] : welfare state reform in advanced democracies / / Barbara Vis

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910458385003321
• Autore: Vis Barbara
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-63422-4; 9786612634222; 90-485-1236-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 p.)
• Collana: Changing welfare states
• Disciplina: 361.68
• Soggetti: Public welfare; Comparative government; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-242) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. The degree and shape of welfare state reform -- pt. 2. Explaining welfare state reform -- pt. 3. Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: Based on insights from prospect theory, a psychological theory of choice under risk, Vis demonstrates ably that the context in which governments find themselves (losses or gains) affects their attitude towards risk and thereby the degree and type of refor

The way of life, or, Gods vvay and course, in bringing the soule into, keeping it in, and carrying it on, in the wayes of life and peace [[electronic resource] ] : laid downe in foure severall treatises on foure texts of Scripture, viz. the pouring out of the spirit, on Zach. 12. 10, 11, &c., sins deadly wound, on Acts 2. 37., the Christians charge, on Prov. 4. 23., the life of faith, on Gal. 2. 19, 20 / / by ... John Cotton

• Record Nr.: UNISA996392476803316
• Autore: Cotton John <1584-1652.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Printed by M.F. for L. Fawne and S. Gellibrand ..., 1641
• Descrizione fisica: [8], 481 p
• Soggetti: Christian life
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0113