This is the first book to examine the views of a number of theorists from ancient times to the 19th century on a range of welfare issues: wealth, poverty and inequality; slavery, gender issues, and the family; child rearing and education; crime and punishment; the role of government in society; the strengths and weaknesses of government provision vis a vis market provision. The book also looks at the values of the various theorists as well as their perception of human nature for these tend to underpin their welfare views. The book will make essential reading for students of social policy, gender issues, community care, social work, and sociology.
Through a range of case studies spanning the post-Cold War period in Iraq, Moldova and Serbia, this innovative book breaks new ground in its study of asymmetric conflicts where warring sides exhibit vast power differentials. It uses multiple theories to examine the different pathways that encourage minor powers to engage in both offensive and defensive wars that they are likely to lose, analysing domestic crisis as a key catalyst and considering ways to mitigate conditions that drive conflict. The author provides an important framework that can be applied to contemporary conflicts elsewhere.
239 SEVEN major results 7.1 background and goal of the study This study is the result of a long, interactive research process conducted over the last 20 years. During this time, the ‘combination of professional and family work’ has become a major policy issue in modern democratic welfare states. It is a central motor of the daily life of men and women within their families and within other organisations. An efficient ‘combination policy’, therefore, needs a consistent and effective policy programme for all relevant societal fields. Chapter 1 explored the
205 CHAPTER A5b Major-accident hazards in spatial planning Nadine Mägdefrau Introduction Continually, tragic accidents in technological establishments that deal with dangerous substances are proof that they are jeopardising the health and safety of the people who live in nearby residential areas. For instance, the explosion of a fireworks depot in Enschede (Netherlands) in May 2000 caused the death of 23 people, damaged 1,500 houses and left 1,250 people homeless. This incident showed once more how important it is to establish certain conditions that ensure
386 42 Measuring the impact of major life events upon happiness Ballas, D. and Dorling, D. (2007) ‘Measuring the impact of major life events upon happiness’, International Journal of Epidemiology, vol 36, no 6, pp 1244-52. Key messages 1. Secondary data analysis of self-reported happiness and major life event data can provide an initial suggestion, of which dynamic events appear to matter most in people’s lives and some measure of to whom and where those events are most likely to occur. 2. Our analysis suggests that in British society at the end of the 20
is such a complex task. This chapter provides a framework for analyzing large-scale, organized and complex criminality through and within major seaports and the challenges of policing these activities. It analyzes organized crime, organizational crime and forms of collusion and/or corruption on the waterfront and in/through seaports by focussing on the challenges of countering them from a policing perspective. Drawing from data collected for completed research projects, especially in the ports of Genoa, New York/New Jersey, Montreal, Melbourne, Liverpool and
6 RISKS, RIGHTS AND SECRETS: public access to information on industrial major hazards Gordon P. Walker Recent developments in public access to information on environmental risk concerns arediscussedin relation to the regulation of major hazard industry. Confidentiality has traditionally been part and parcel of the 'consensual' approach to risk regulation in the UK. However. in responseto a number of pressures. including the wider reper- cussions of accident events at Sevesoand Bhopal, moves towards greater openness have been seen. This paper describes and
39 THREE Poland: leave policy and the process and goals of a major reform1 Anna Kurowska Introduction The statutory right to a paid Maternity Leave was introduced in communist Poland in 1975. The 16 weeks of leave it initially guaranteed came in just above western standards.2 From the start, the leave was fully paid, covering 100 per cent of eligible employees’ previous (basic) earnings. During the first decade of Poland’s political and economic transformation the length of paid Maternity Leave was not changed, as other socio-economic issues dominated the
ARTICLE Let’s just say we’d like to avoid any great power entanglements: desecuritization in post-Mao Chinese foreign policy towards major powers Juha A. Vuori Department of Philosophy, Contemporary History, and Political Science, University of Turku, Turku, Finland ABSTRACT Previous studies on securitization in China have shown how secur- ity discourses can have various domestic political functions, how even security issues can be contested, and how China engages with the securitization moves of neighbouring states. Despite this growing literature, there is
This collection of work has been produced as a result of a major 1994 UK seminar on the measurement and analysis of social exclusion, sponsored by the European Commission and the UK Department of Social Security. There are contributions from a wide range of academics with varying backgrounds.
Three main concerns are targeted:
the conceptualisation of social exclusion;
the measurement of social exclusion;
the indicators for monitoring the effectiveness of policies for combating social exclusion.
This book provides an invaluable review of the literature available and presents major new thinking in terms of theory, understanding and data analysis. It will be important reading for students, researchers and policy makers working in this field.
