Autore	Wilensky Harold L
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (925 p.)
Disciplina	320.3
Soggetto topico	Welfare state Comparative government
Soggetto non controllato	academic agriculture american government american history britain career case study churches democracy environmental globalization government high tech industry information age israel japan labor mass media modern society modern world performance political economy political parties politics post industrial poverty profession public policy research scholarly sociology us history welfare state western europe
ISBN	9786612759031 1-282-75903-5 1-59734-873-2 0-520-92833-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- TABLES -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. CONVERGENCE THEORY -- 2. TYPES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY -- 3. MASS SOCIETY, PARTICIPATION, AND THE MASS MEDIA -- 4. THEORIES OF THE POSTINDUSTRIAL SOCIETY -- 5. THE WELFARE STATE: CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE -- 6. SECTOR SPENDING AND PROGRAM EMPHASIS -- 7. TYPES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, PARTY IDEOLOGY, AND FAMILY POLICY: CONTRASTING GOVERNMENT RESPONSES TO A COMMON PROBLEM -- 8. THE AMERICAN WELFARE MESS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE -- 9. BUREAUCRATIC EFFICIENCY AND BLOAT -- 10. TAX-WELFARE BACKLASH: HOW TO TAX, SPEND, AND YET KEEP COOL -- 11. ARE POLITICAL PARTIES DECLINING? AN ANALYSIS OF NATIONAL VARIATION IN DEALIGNMENT -- 12. TYPES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, SPENDING, TAXING, AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE -- 13. THE GREAT AMERICAN JOB MACHINE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE -- 14. RISK AND SAFETY: AMERICAN MAYHEM IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE -- 15. TYPES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, REGULATORY REGIMES, AND THE ENVIRONMENT -- 16. HEALTH PERFORMANCE: AFFLUENCE, POLITICAL ECONOMY, AND PUBLIC POLICY AS SOURCES OF REAL HEALTH -- 17. GLOBALIZATION: DOES IT SUBVERT JOB SECURITY, LABOR STANDARDS, AND THE WELFARE STATE? -- 18. AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS -- APPENDIX A: METHODS -- APPENDIX B: CONCEPTS AND MEASURES OF LEFT AND CATHOLIC PARTY POWER -- APPENDIX C: SOCIAL SPENDING, GNP, TAX EXPENDITURES, AND HOUSING EXPENDITURES -- APPENDIX D: SECTOR SPENDING CORRELATIONS -- APPENDIX E: FAMILY POLICY -- APPENDIX F: ESTIMATING RELIANCE ON MEANS TESTING -- APPENDIX G: MEASURES OF ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE -- APPENDIX H: MEASURES OF CENTRAL BANK AUTONOMY -- APPENDIX I: MAYHEM INDEX, MOBILITY-MERITOCRACY INDEX, AND MINORITY-GROUP CLEAVAGES -- APPENDIX J: PUBLIC EMPLOYEES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910812851703321

Autore	Anneli Anttonen
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Northampton, MA : , : Edward Elgar Pub., , 2017
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource
Disciplina	361.94
Collana	New Horizons in Social Policy
Soggetto topico	Human services - Europe Public welfare - Europe
Soggetto non controllato	social policy welfare state ageing gender social care Public social services
ISBN	1-78643-211-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents: Introduction / Flavia Martinelli, Anneli Anttonen and Margitta Mätzke -- Part I -- Context and concepts -- 1. Social services, welfare states and places. An overview / Flavia Martinelli -- 2. The European Union policy framework for social services. Agendas, regulations, and discourses / José Luis Gómez-Barroso, Stefania Barillà and Ivan Harsløf -- 3. Public policy conceptions. Priorities of social service provision in Europe / Margitta Mätzke, Anneli Anttonen, Peter Brokking and Jana Javornik -- Part II -- The transformation of governance -- 4. Social services in post-industrial Europe. An incomplete success story and its tragic moments / Ingo Bode -- 5. The vertical division of responsibility for social services within and beyond the State. Issues in empowerment, participation and territorial cohesion / Stefania Sabatinelli and Michela Semprebon -- 6. The horizontal 're-mix' in social care. Trends and implications for service provision / Bettina Leibetseder, Anneli Anttonen, Einar Øverbye, Charles Pace and Signy Irene Vabo -- 7. The 'activation turn' and the new horizontal division of labour at the local level. The case of social assistance services in Austria, Belgium, Norway and Switzerland / Peter Raeymaeckers, Bettina Leibetseder, Robert Fluder, Erika Gubrium and Danielle Dierckx -- 8. Care in the wake of the financial crisis. Gender implications in Spain and the United Kingdom / Blanca Deusdad, Jana Javornik, Rosa Mas Giralt and Raquel Marbán-Flores -- Part III -- Recent trajectories in care for older people -- 9. Care for older people in early twenty-first century Europe. Dimensions and directions of change / Teppo Kröger and Angela Bagnato -- 10. How marketisation is changing the Nordic model of care for older people / Anneli Anttonen and Olli Karsio -- 11. The de-institutionalisation of care for older people in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. National strategies and local outcomes / Kateřina Kubalčíková, Gábor Szüdi, Jaroslava Szüdi and Jana Havlíková -- 12. Care for older people in three Mediterranean countries. Discourses, policies, and realities of de-institutionalisation / Blanca Deusdad, Sagit Lev, Charles Pace and Sue Vella -- Part IV -- Local initiatives, social innovation and social inclusion -- 13. The Janus face of social innovation in local welfare initiatives / Liisa Häikiö, Laurent Fraisse, Sofia Adam, Outi Jolanki and Marcus Knutagård -- 14. Social innovation in the field of Roma inclusion in Hungary and Austria. Lessons to foster social cohesion from Thara and Tanodas / Carla Weinzierl, Andreas Novy, Anikó Bernát, Florian Wukovitsch and Zsuzsanna Vercseg -- 15. The social inclusion of immigrants in the United Kingdom and Italy. Different but converging trajectories? / Rosa Mas Giralt and Antonella Sarlo -- 16. Housing and neighbourhood. Basic needs, governance and social innovation / Peter Brokking, Marisol García, Dina Vaiou and Serena Vicari -- Part V -- Social services disrupted. Challenges and scenarios -- 17. Challenges and dilemmas in the provision of social services / Anneli Anttonen -- 18. The role of the state in the development of social services / Margitta Mätzke -- 19. Social services disrupted. Changing supply landscapes, impacts and policy options / Flavia Martinelli -- Index.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910229240303321

Autore	Saari Juho
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Tampere, : Tampere University Press, 2017
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (381 pages) ; : charts; digital file(s)
Altri autori (Persone)	SaariJuho <1967->
Soggetto topico	Social welfare & social services Welfare economics
Soggetto non controllato	social policy social security addiction welfare state 21st century finland poverty
ISBN	9789520303662 9789520303655 9520303650 9520303669
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	fin
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910169175603321

Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2000
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (381 p.)
Disciplina	956.04
Altri autori (Persone)	HeydemannSteven
Soggetto topico	War and society - Middle East War - Economic aspects - Middle East
Soggetto non controllato	academic civil war class structure colonial colonialism cultural history economics government middle east middle eastern national security political economy political politics postwar scholarly social change social class social history social studies war wartime welfare state world history world war 1. world war 2. world war wwi wwii
ISBN	0-520-92522-X 9786612370700 1-282-37070-7 1-59734-987-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East -- 2. Guns, Gold, and Grain: War and Food Supply in the Making of Transjordan -- 3. The Climax and Crisis of the Colonial Welfare State in Syria and Lebanon during World War II -- 4. War, Keynesianism, and Colonialism: Explaining State-Market Relations in the Postwar Middle East Robert Vitalis and Steven Heydemann -- 5. Si Vis Stabilitatem, Para Bellum: State Building, National Security, and War Preparation in Syria -- 6. Changing Boundaries and Social Crisis Israel and the 1967 War -- 7. War as Leveler, War as Midwife Palestinian Political Institutions, Nationalism, and Society since 1948 -- 8. War in the Social Memory of Egyptian Peasants -- 9. War as a Vehicle for the Rise and Demise of a State-Controlled Society: The Case of Ba'thist Iraq -- 10. The Political Economy of Civil War in Lebanon -- 11. The Cumulative Impact of Middle Eastern Wars -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- List of Contributors -- INDEX
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910456004603321