Handbook of Social Policy Evaluation
ISBN: 9781785363238 / Angielski / Twarda / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Handbook uses methodologies and cases to discover how and when to evaluate social policy, and looks at the possible impacts of evaluation on social policy decisions. The contributors present a detailed analysis on how to conduct social policy evaluation, how to be aware of pitfalls and dilemmas and how to use evidence effectively. Organized into three thematic sections, this new resource includes contributions from a variety of researchers from a range of disciplines and countries. The first section explores evaluation and examples of methods used; the second focuses on the intersection...
This Handbook uses methodologies and cases to discover how and when to evaluate social policy, and looks at the possible impacts of evaluation on soci...
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1172,49 zł |
Behavioral-Based Interventions for Improving Public Policies
ISBN: 9781799827313 / Angielski / Twarda / 305 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Behavioral-based intervention in designing public policies has become an important field of study in recent years with empirical studies devoted to analyzing how to design better policies from the fields of behavioral economics, social psychology, sociology, anthropology, economy, political science, design (human-centered design and design thinking), or effective state and non-state bureaucracies throughout the world. Therefore, it is important to explore this original research on behavioral policymaking that starts from the development of policies following all the way through to the...
Behavioral-based intervention in designing public policies has become an important field of study in recent years with empirical studies devoted to an...
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1188,98 zł |
Evaluating Family Support: Thinking Internationally, Thinking Critically
ISBN: 9780471497233 / Angielski / Twarda / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The delivery of effective family support is a key global child welfare issue, yet there is little consensus on what constitutes family support or what the best ways are to evaluate it.
Evaluating Family Support: Thinking Internationally, Thinking Critically offers a full review of the conceptual and operational problems involved in this complex and topical field. Ilan Katz and John Pinkerton have brought together a team of experienced child care policy analysts and evaluators to present the current state of critical thinking alongside detailed international case studies. The... The delivery of effective family support is a key global child welfare issue, yet there is little consensus on what constitutes family support or what...
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Routledge Handbook of Global Health Security
ISBN: 9780415645478 / Angielski / Twarda / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new Handbook presents an overview of cutting-edge research in the growing field of global health security. Over the past decade, the study of global health and its interconnection with security has become a prominent and rapidly growing field of research. Ongoing debates question whether health and security should be linked; which (if any) health issues should be treated as security threats; what should be done to address health security threats; and the positive and negative consequences of 'securitizing' health. In academic and policy terms, the health security field is a timely and...
This new Handbook presents an overview of cutting-edge research in the growing field of global health security. Over the past decade, the study of glo...
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1204,18 zł |
Human Rights in War
ISBN: 9789811621154 / Angielski / Twarda / 455 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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1266,42 zł |
Handbook on Society and Social Policy
ISBN: 9781788113519 / Angielski / Twarda / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive Handbook provides a unique examination of the key issues and challenges facing society and social policy in the twenty-first century. Featuring both wide-ranging coverage of major issues and detailed analysis of social policies in different countries, the Handbook explores key concepts, policy areas and institutions, considering welfare and social policy in the context of wider socio-economic and cultural divisions. In addition to examining specific policy areas, contributors engage with the social divisions and complex infrastructures that underpin them on both local...
This comprehensive Handbook provides a unique examination of the key issues and challenges facing society and social policy in the twenty-first centur...
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1278,12 zł |
Handbook of Research on Economic and Social Well-being
ISBN: 9781781953709 / Angielski / Twarda / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Providing extensive surveys on the most recently developed themes of individual and social well-being, this Handbook offers a comprehensive treatment of less traditional approaches to empirical and theoretical research. The novel complementary perspective by which each topic is addressed presents a broader outlook on the various dimensions of inequality and well-being. Each topic is assessed through two accompanying chapters: first, a detailed study of the theoretical approaches, followed by a supporting chapter of empirical findings. The original contributions cover themes ranging from...
Providing extensive surveys on the most recently developed themes of individual and social well-being, this Handbook offers a comprehensive treatment ...
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1278,12 zł |
The Palgrave Handbook of Volunteering, Civic Participation, and Nonprofit Associations
ISBN: 9781137263162 / Angielski / Twarda / 1460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by over 200 leading experts from more than seventy countries, this handbook provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the latest theory and research on volunteering, civic participation and nonprofit membership associations. It is the first book on the third sector to be truly multinational and interdisciplinary in scope.
Written by over 200 leading experts from more than seventy countries, this handbook provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the latest ...
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1458,30 zł |
Handbook of Research on Global Institutional Roles for Inclusive Development
ISBN: 9781668424483 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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1493,14 zł |
Handbook on Social Protection Systems
ISBN: 9781839109102 / Angielski / Twarda / 776 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This exciting and innovative Handbook provides readers with a comprehensive and globally relevant overview of the instruments, actors and design features of social protection systems, as well as their application and impacts in practice. It is the first book that centres around system building globally, a theme that has gained political importance yet has received relatively little attention in academia. Combining academic discussion with cases from the Global South and North, this Handbook offers practical recommendations on how greater harmonization across social protection policies,...
This exciting and innovative Handbook provides readers with a comprehensive and globally relevant overview of the instruments, actors and design featu...
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1499,95 zł |
International Encyclopedia of Social Policy: 3-Volume Set
ISBN: 9780415258968 / Angielski / Twarda / 1972 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This milestone work is the first to offer in-depth treatment of all aspects of the discipline and practice of social policy globally. Supported by a distinguished international advisory board, the editors have compiled more than 750 entries written by 254 leading specialists to provide authoritative coverage of definitional and conceptual terms, actors, institutions and national and regional contexts and applications, and the growing importance of the transnational dimension. Also included are biographical entries on major theoreticians.
The editors have particularly striven to provide... This milestone work is the first to offer in-depth treatment of all aspects of the discipline and practice of social policy globally. Supported by a d...
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1505,23 zł |
The Sage Handbook of Political Sociology, 2v
ISBN: 9781473919464 / Angielski / Twarda / 1260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive handbook that attempts to cover the whole field of topics that a reader interested primarily in politics needs to understand as well as providing essential conceptual and empirical background to the social study of politics.
A comprehensive handbook that attempts to cover the whole field of topics that a reader interested primarily in politics needs to understand as well a...
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1530,31 zł |
International Human Rights of Children
ISBN: 9789811041839 / Angielski / Twarda / 681 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the meaning and implementation of international children's rights law, as laid down in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and related international and regional human rights instruments.
This book explores the meaning and implementation of international children's rights law, as laid down in the United Nations Convention on the Rights ...
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1535,06 zł |
EUropean Labour Law and Social Policy
ISBN: 9789041112798 / Angielski / Twarda / 735 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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1723,55 zł |
Handbook of the Sociology of Youth in Brics Countries
ISBN: 9789813148383 / Angielski / Twarda / 1140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Youth are, by definition, the future. This book brings initial analyses to bear on youth in the five BRICS countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, which are home to nearly half of the world's youth. Very little is known about these youth outside of their own countries since the mainstream views on 'youth' and 'youth culture' are derived from the available literature on youth in the industrialized West, which is home to a small part of the world's youth. This book aims to help fill in this gap.The handbook examines the state of youth, their past, present and permits the...
Youth are, by definition, the future. This book brings initial analyses to bear on youth in the five BRICS countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China and...
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1781,28 zł |
Encyclopedia of Drug Policy
ISBN: 9781412976954 / Angielski / Twarda / 1008 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Request a free 30-day online trial to this title at www.sagepub.com/freetrial
Spanning two volumes of approximately 450 entries in an A-to-Z format, this encyclopedia explores the controversial drug war through the lens of varied disciplines. A full spectrum of articles explains topics from Colombian cartels and Mexican kingpins to television reportage; from "just say no" advertising to heroin production; and from narco-terrorism to more than $500 billion in U.S. government expenditures. Key Themes- Cases- Conferences and Conventions- Countries (Affecting U.S.... Request a free 30-day online trial to this title at www.sagepub.com/freetrial
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Water Policy: Allocation and Management in Practice
ISBN: 9780419216506 / Angielski / Twarda / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines some of the successes and failures of actual implementation of modern water policy options in the light of the principles and concepts which have emerged from the Rio Earth Summit, the Dublin Statement and other international consensus.
The book attempts to share real practical experience at all levels: local, regional, national and international, emphasising the co-operation between different professions and sectors that must take place to ensure adequate supplies of fresh water in future. This book examines some of the successes and failures of actual implementation of modern water policy options in the light of the principles and conce...
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International Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism
ISBN: 9789811041808 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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1918,83 zł |
International Human Rights of Women
ISBN: 9789811089046 / Angielski / Twarda / 483 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the broad spectrum of human rights issues and violations as they are experienced by women and sexual minorities across civil, political, social, economic, and/or cultural domains, in different regions, countries, and contexts.
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the broad spectrum of human rights issues and violations as they are experienced by women and sexua...
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Research Anthology on Measuring and Achieving Sustainable Development Goals, VOL 1
ISBN: 9781668445754 / Angielski / Twarda / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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2080,91 zł |