Social Policy In Western Europe And The Usa 1950 80

Author : Roger Girod,Alan Gladstone,Patrick de Laubier
Publisher : Springer
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1985-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349075768

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Social Policy in Western Europe and the USA, 1950–80 by Roger Girod,Alan Gladstone,Patrick de Laubier Pdf

This volume seeks to trace certain tendencies and developments in social policy in Western Europe and the United States. In the first, which is general, Professor Girod recalls the objectives of social policy as well as offering a number of scenarios or strategies for the future of social policy. The social policy philosophy of Schumpeter, Hayek and Röpke, and their current vitality, are traced by Professor de Luabier. Professor Delcourt, in his chapter on Social Policy - crisis or mutation?, presents a critical analysis of various trends in social policy and in particular the elitist philosophy of Hirschmann. The second part of the volume deals with particular national experiences: Switzerland by Professor Tschudi; Sweden by Dr. Hartmann; the United States by Professor Bénéton; and Italy by Professor Donati. The book broadly covers the diverse range of subject matter encompassed within the term 'social policy' and should be of great value both to social policy practitioners as well as to those academics concerned with the fields of economics, sociology and political science.

Author : Roger Girod,Patrick De Laubier,Alan Gladstone
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1985-02
Category : Social policy.
ISBN : 0312733763

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Social Policy in Western Europe and the U. S. A., Nineteen Fifty to Nineteen Eighty by Roger Girod,Patrick De Laubier,Alan Gladstone Pdf

This volume seeks to trace certain tendencies and developments in social policy in Western Europe and in the United States. The book broadly covers the diverse range of subject matter encompassed within the term 'social policy' and should be of great value both to social policy practitioners as well as to those academics concerned with the fields of economics, sociology and political science.

Author : Peter Flora
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351304900

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Development of Welfare States in Europe and America by Peter Flora Pdf

This volume seeks to contribute to an interdisci-plinary, comparative, and historical study of Western welfare states. It attempts to link their historical dynamics and contemporary problems in an international perspective. Building on collaboration between European-and American-based research groups, the editors have coordinated contributions by economists, political scientists, sociologists, and historians. The developments they analyze cover a time span from the initiation of modern national social policies at the end of the nineteenth century to the present. The experiences of all the presently existing Western European systems except Spain and Por-tugal are systematically encompassed, with com-parisons developed selectively with the experi-ences of the United States and Canada. The devel-opment of the social security systems, of public expenditures!and taxation, of public education and educational opportunities, and of income inequal-ity are described, compared, and analyzed for varying groupings of the Western European and North American nations. This volume addresses itself mainly to two audi-ences. The first includes all students of policy problems of the welfare states who seek to gain a comparative perspective and historical under-standing. A second group may be more interested in the theory and empirical analysis of long-term societal developments. In this context, the growth of the welfare states ranges as a major departure, along with the development of national states and capitalist economies. The welfare state is interpreted as a general phenomenon of modernization, as a product of the increasing differentiation and the growing size of societies on the one hand, and of processes of social and political mobilization on the other. It is an important element of the structural convergence of modern societies by its mere weight in all countries and at the same time a source of divergence by the variations within its institutional structure.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789004418363

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The History of Public Health and the Modern State by Anonim Pdf

The book focuses on whether the construction of a public health system is an inherent characteristic of the managerial function of modern political systems. Thus, each essay traces the steps leading to the growth of health government in various nations, examining the specific conflicts and contradictions which each incurred.

Author : Peter Baldwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0521428939

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The Politics of Social Solidarity by Peter Baldwin Pdf

By analyzing the competing concerns of different social "actors" behind the evolution of social policy, this study explains why some nations had an easy time in developing a welfare state while others fought long entrenched battles.

Author : Dorothy Porter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134637188

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Health, Civilization and the State by Dorothy Porter Pdf

This book examines the social, economic and political issues of public health provision in historical perspective. It outlines the development of public health in Britain, Continental Europe and the United States from the ancient world through to the modern state. It includes discussion of: * pestilence, public order and morality in pre-modern times * the Enlightenment and its effects * centralization in Victorian Britain * localization of health care in the United States * population issues and family welfare * the rise of the classic welfare state * attitudes towards public health into the twenty-first century.

Author : Nicholas Doumanis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199695669

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The Oxford Handbook of European History, 1914-1945 by Nicholas Doumanis Pdf

The period spanning the two World Wars was unquestionably the most catastrophic in Europe's history. Despite such undeniably progressive developments as the radical expansion of women's suffrage and rising health standards, the era was dominated by political violence and chronic instability.Its symbols were Verdun, Guernica, and Auschwitz. By the end of this dark period, tens of millions of Europeans had been killed and more still had been displaced and permanently traumatized. If the nineteenth century gave Europeans cause to regard the future with a sense of optimism, the earlytwentieth century had them anticipating the destruction of civilization.The fact that so many revolutions, regime changes, dictatorships, mass killings, and civil wars took place within such a compressed time frame suggests that Europe experienced a general crisis. Indeed in the early 1940s both Charles de Gaulle and Winston Churchill referred to a 'thirty years war'.Why did so many crises rage across the continent from 1914 until the end of the Second World War? Why did the winds of destruction affect some regions more than others?The Oxford Handbook of European History, 1914-1945 reconsiders the most significant features of this calamitous age from a transnational perspective. It demonstrates the degree to which national experiences were intertwined with those of other nations, and how each crisis was implicated in widerregional, continental, and global developments. Readers will find innovative and stimulating chapters on various political, social, and economic subjects by some of the leading scholars working on modern European history today.

Author : Michael Peters,James Marshall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135717940

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Individualism And Community by Michael Peters,James Marshall Pdf

Examining, in the widest sense, the changes in political philosophy that have occurred in Western capitalist states since the early 1980s, this book focuses on the introduction of neo-liberal principles in the combined area of social and education policy. New Zealand presents a paradigm example of the neo-liberal shift in political philosophy. From constituting the social laboratory of the Western world in the 1930s in terms of social welfare provision, New Zealand has become the neo-liberal experiment of the fully marketised society in the 1990s. Against the theoretical background of educational theory and practice, this book examines neo-liberalism and its critiques as responses to the so-called crisis of the welfare state and argues for a reformulated critical social policy in the postmodern condition. The conclusions about social policy drawn by the authors can be generalized to similar situations in other Western capitalist countries.

Author : Sita Radhakrishnan
Publisher : Northern Book Centre
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Public welfare
ISBN : 817211026X

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Welfare Services in the Netherlands and United Kingdom by Sita Radhakrishnan Pdf

In the years following World War II, the concept of State Welfare did seem to be the golden mean between Marxian revolution and laissez faire evolution in the human pursuit of social justice. Western democratic states that upheld the primacy of the individual and his liberty over that of the 'State' operationalized State responsibility for welfare on the basis of social policies compatible with their socio-political and economic systems. This resulted in the coming into existence of a large number of services rendered by the State to its citizens touching all aspects of their lives, cutting through informal, intermediary institutions, and developing a direct link with it. The focus of this study is on these services in two such states, i.e., the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Their provision and administration for ethnic minorities that form part of their national communities is dealt with in particular. The Netherlands and the United Kingdom have constitutional monarchical systems based on the sovereignty of the people. Liberalism is an underlying sociological base for their societies. Both had acquired overseas colonies which resulted in the settlement of people with ethnic origins different from their dominant group within their national communities. These factors make the two comparable. However, the ideological basis, social and economic forces and movements that led to the establishment of State welfare in the two states differ significantly. The study reveals that their particular ideological positions on State-Society relations have a significant impact on social policies adopted by them and in the modalities of their implementation. The British stand on assimilation in one dominant culture and the Dutch stand on integration with acceptance of pluralism throw up the genuine problems in the harmonization of social policy in a United Europe of the future.

Author : Michael A. Peters,Marek Tesar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351600897

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Contesting Governing Ideologies by Michael A. Peters,Marek Tesar Pdf

Contesting Governing Ideologies is the third volume in the Educational Philosophy and Theory: Editor’s Choice series and represents a collection of texts that provide a cutting-edge analysis of the philosophy and theory of performances of neoliberal ideology in education. In past decades, philosophy of education has provided a critical commentary on problematic areas of neoliberal ideology. As such, this collection argues, philosophy of education can be considered as an intellectual struggle that runs through the contemporary ideological landscape and has roots that go back to the Enlightenment in its traditions. This book covers multiple philosophical and educational theoretical perspectives of what we know about the ideology of neoliberalism, and many of its practices and projects. Neoliberalism is difficult to define, but what is certain is that it has significantly matured as a political doctrine and set of policy practices. This collection covers questions of ideology, politics, and policy in relation to the subject and the institution alike. The chapters in this book provide rich and diverse reading, allowing readers to rethink established discourses and contest ideologies, providing a thorough and careful philosophical and theoretical analysis of the story of neoliberalism over the past decades. Contesting Governing Ideologies will be key reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of philosophy of education, philosophy, education, educational theory, post-structural theory, the policy and politics of education, and the pedagogy of education.

Author : Jo M. Sekimonyo
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781725265257

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Ethosism by Jo M. Sekimonyo Pdf

In the global environment of trade and commerce, humankind appears to have given up its natural journey of progression to improve the social order and universally accepted capitalism. But, whilst the richest continue to accumulate vast amounts of wealth, inequality grows and the poorest still live in extreme poverty. This passionate, academic study will go on to present that socialism is just another means of enslaving society under the capitalist model. So, is there a new social, political, and economic arrangement that fits the twenty-first century reality? Ethosism looks at the fact that in the twenty-first century more people than ever before have the means to acquire and own their means of engagement, participation, or involvement in an enterprise. As the result, capitalism, socialism, and communism have lost their raison d'etres. By examining the foremost upheavals of the twenty-first century, wealth inequality and climate change, plus social class conflicts resulting from the paradigm shift, my conviction is that we are in dire need of a morales nuvem consensus which will herald new social, commerce, intermerce, and political covenants that will enable us to successfully traverse the twenty-first century and beyond.

Author : Vern L. Bengtson,W. Andrew Achenbaum
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0202304590

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The Changing Contract Across Generations by Vern L. Bengtson,W. Andrew Achenbaum Pdf

Generational conflict has attracted considerable attention in the media and within academic circles during the past decade. At the center of this collection of papers analyzing various facets of that conflict lie complex issues of generational equity--issues that will remain important for the framing of public policy during the 1990s, What do the young and the middle-aged owe the elderly? In discharging that debt, to what extent are they able to provide for their own old age in a climate of changing notions of welfare? What light do the longer perspectives of history shed on these issues? What role do kinship, gender, and economic status play? The papers commissioned by Bengtson and Achenbaum are intended to give greater analytic rigor to current debates. The volume is interdisciplinary not only by theoretical intent but by the practical imperatives of gerontology. More than a dozen sociologists, economists, historians, demographers, and policy analysts discuss the meanings and ambiguities that are inherent in terms such as "generation," "equity," "compact," "contract," and "conflict," in order to assess how relations between the age groups seem to vary from one sociohistorical context to the next. This distinguished group of contributors raises comparative issues throughout, assessing variations in generational ties by gender, race, class, and geographic location. Several project the extent to which recent changes in the political economy, public philosophy, and demographic structure of most "modern" societies presage greater conflicts, or greater consensus, in family members' relationships and social ties.

Author : Bibliothèque centrale (Fonds Quetelet)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008428646

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Aanwinsten van de Centrale Bibliotheek (Queteletfonds) by Bibliothèque centrale (Fonds Quetelet) Pdf

Author : Sheila B. Kamerman,Alfred J. Kahn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Child welfare
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081890928

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Mother-only Families in Western Europe by Sheila B. Kamerman,Alfred J. Kahn Pdf

Author : Donald Sassoon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 1006 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857715302

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One Hundred Years of Socialism by Donald Sassoon Pdf

On 14 July 1889, the centenary of the French Revolution, socialist parties from all corners of Europe met in Paris. On the same day in the same city, the Exposition Universelle was launched to mark the achievements of capitalist production. The two events symbolized the beginning of the epic struggle between socialism and capitalism in Europe.; In this comprehensive study of a century of socialism, the author traces the fortunes of the political parties of the Left in Western Europe. From the rise of the Bolsheviks to the fall of the Berlin wall, from the Second International through two world wars to the Cold War and the birth of the welfare state, from the working class militancy and student uprisings of the 1960s, through the revival of feminism and the arrival of "green" politics, to the reluctant embrace of market economics en route to the millennium, Donald Sassoon charts the course of socialism across 14 countries.; He shows that throughout their history the fortunes of socialism and capitalism have been inextricably linked. They have grown up side by side, each one challenging and seeking to destroy, yet nourishing and shaping the other.