Europe - Social Policy Books

New and Published Books

1. Care Work in Europe

   Current Understandings and Future Directions

   By Claire Cameron, Peter Moss

   Care Work in Europe provides a cross-national and cross-sectoral study of care work in Europe today, covering policy, provision and practice, as well as exploring how care work is conceptualized and understood. Drawing on a study which looks at care work across the life course in a number of...

   Published April 16th 2012 by Routledge
2. Mobilizing Regions, Mobilizing Europe

   Expert Knowledge and Scientific Planning in European Regional Development

   By Sebastian M. Buettner

   Series: Routledge/ESA Studies in European Societies

   Regional development strategies are becoming more similar all around Europe, even though regional differences are more pronounced than ever and many European regions have become more autonomous actors. This thesis of a peculiar standardized diversification of sub-national space in the modern...

   Published February 8th 2012 by Routledge
3. Health Care Systems in Europe and Asia

   Edited by Christian Aspalter, Yasuo Uchida, Robin Gauld

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social Welfare in Asia

   This book addresses the global need for more comparative studies on health policy and health care systems, given the rise in recent decades of societal aging, modern mass diseases, economic globalization, and resulting permanent fiscal austerity of governments which have fundamentally altered the...

   Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge
4. Financial Exclusion and the Poverty Trap

   Overcoming Deprivation in the Inner City

   By Pamela Lenton, Paul Mosley

   Series: Routledge Advances in Social Economics

   The persistence of poverty hurts us all, and attacking poverty is a major policy objective everywhere. In Britain, the main political parties have an anti-poverty mandate and in particular an agreed commitment to eliminate child poverty by 2020, but there is controversy over how this should be done...

   Published October 18th 2011 by Routledge
5. Immigration, Social Integration and Crime

   A Cross-National Approach

   By Luigi Solivetti

   Series: Contemporary Issues in Public Policy

   The problem of social control has constituted the acid test for the entire issue of immigration and integration. But whilst recent studies show that the crime rate for non-nationals is three, four or more, times higher than that of the country’s 'own' citizens, academic interest in these statistics...

   Published September 29th 2011 by Routledge-Cavendish
6. Undocumented Workers' Transitions

   Legal Status, Migration, and Work in Europe

   By Sonia McKay, Eugenia Markova, Anna Paraskevopoulou

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   This book explores how immigration laws, while aimed at discouraging undocumented migration, actually sustain it. It documents the circumstances that have caused previously documented migrants to become undocumented and explores the impact of their changing status on their families and on their own...

   Published April 24th 2011 by Routledge
7. The Political Economy of European Social Democracy

   A Critical Realist Approach

   By David J. Bailey

   This book takes an in-depth look into recent developments in European social democracy. It begins by highlighting the somewhat paradoxical turn by a number of social democratic parties towards enhanced support for European integration, a move that has occurred despite the apparently ‘neoliberal’...

   Published December 6th 2010 by Routledge
8. Elements of an Evolutionary Theory of Welfare

   Assessing Welfare When Preferences Change

   By Martin Binder

   Series: Routledge Advances in Social Economics

   It has always been an important task of economics to assess individual and social welfare. The traditional approach has assumed that the measuring rod for welfare is the satisfaction of the individual’s given and unchanging preferences, but recent work in behavioural economics has called this into...

   Published April 25th 2010 by Routledge
9. The Handbook of European Welfare Systems

   Edited by Klaus Schubert, Simon Hegelich, Ursula Bazant

   This book provides the first comprehensive information and detailed data on the welfare systems of all twenty-seven EU member states and offers the reader an invaluable introduction and basis for comparative welfare research. The introductory chapter summarizes the actual debate about...

   Published June 18th 2009 by Routledge
10. Cultural Overstretch?

    Differences Between Old and New Member States of the EU and Turkey

    By Jurgen Gerhards

    Series: Routledge/ESA Studies in European Societies

    Within a few years the European Union will be enlarged from fifteen to twenty-eight member states, including Turkey. Cultural Overstretch investigates whether the new countries culturally fit into the European Union. Interpreting the European treaties and the European Law, Gerhards describes...

    Published August 8th 2007 by Routledge