Europe - Social Policy Books

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1. Community Finance: Tackling Poverty and Social Exclusion

   By Pamela Lenton, Paul Mosley

   Although poverty in Britain is falling slowly, persistent pockets of poverty remain – particularly in inner-city areas, and amongst groups such as ethnic minorities, lone parents, the disabled, and the children of these groups. How to reduce this poverty, and do it in a cost-effective way, is a...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-46039-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. 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’...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-60425-3 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Immigration, Social Integration and Crime: A Cross-National Approach

   By Luigi M. Solivetti

   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...

   May 2010 | 978-0-415-49072-6 | Hardback (Routledge-Cavendish)

4. Elements of an Evolutionary Theory of Welfare: Assessing Welfare When Preferences Change

   By Martin Binder

   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...

   April 2010 | 978-0-415-56298-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. 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...

   June 2009 | 978-0-415-48275-2 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   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...

   2007 | 978-0-415-39447-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. Cultural Overstretch?: Differences Between Old and New Member States of the EU and Turkey

   By Jurgen Gerhards

   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...

   2007 | 978-0-415-43549-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Immigration Policy in Europe: The Politics of Control

   Edited by Virginie Guiraudon, Gallya Lahav

   Previously published as a special issue of West European Politics, this edited volume evaluates the extent to which a policy gap between inputs and outcomes exists with regard to immigration control. In exploring an expanded migration policy-field which includes the extreme right, the media and...

   2006 | 978-0-415-41150-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. German Migrants in Post-War Britain: An Enemy Embrace

   By Dr Inge Weber-Newth, Johannes-Dieter Steinert

   Both timely and topical, with 2005 marking the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, this unique book examines the little-known and under-researched area of German migration to Britain in the immediate post-war era. Authors Weber-Newth and Steinert analyze the political framework of...

   2006 | 978-0-7146-5657-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. Autobiographies of Transformation: Lives in Central and Eastern Europe

    Edited by Mike Keen, Janusz Mucha

    Autobiographies of Transformation is a completely unique history of sociology in Central and Eastern Europe in the post-Communist era. Through the autobiographies of ten key sociological witnesses from the region, the sociological imagination is turned upon itself, resulting in a...

    2005 | 978-0-415-37651-8 | Hardback (Routledge)