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Book SynopsisSteve Biko inspired a generation of black South Africans to claim their true identity and refuse to be a part of their own oppression. Through his example, he demonstrated fearlessness and self-esteem, and he led a black student movement countrywide that challenged and thwarted the culture of fear perpetuated by the apartheid regime.Trade Review“Ambitious and intelligent, Biko was pursuing a university education in South Africa when he energized a student movement in resistance to apartheid…. Wilson analyzes Biko’s legacy in the aftermath of apartheid and expresses continued concern about racial conflicts and growing concerns about class divisions.” * Booklist *“Throughout the text, Wilson brings to the fore Biko’s personality, drawing a portrait of a complex and charismatic man. VERDICT: The book, as a short history rather than an in-depth examination of a person or a movement, will be most useful for students, although it does assume a certain amount of knowledge.” * Library Journal *“Clear accessible language; a strong narrative [and] chronological structure; a balanced assessment in the portrayal of Biko.”

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Book SynopsisGovan Mbeki (1910–2001) was a core leader of the African National Congress, the Communist Party, and the armed wing of the ANC during the struggle against apartheid. Known as a hard-liner, Mbeki was a prolific writer and combined in a rare way the attributes of intellectual and activist, political theorist and practitioner.Trade Review“[This] thoughtful biography…examines the ways in which [Govan Mbeki] placed greater emphasis than many other cadres on the political importance of rural people…This is a very accomplished monograph. Neither sentimental nor vague and dispassionate, Bundy distils Mbeki's legacy as that of writer, teacher and revolutionary, albeit one who had participated in a ‘modest revolution.’” * Journal of African History *

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Book SynopsisA penetrating, accessible portrait of the activist whose execution galvanized the world.Trade Review“In Ken Saro-Wiwa, Doron and Falola provide a masterful narrative of the struggles of Nigeria’s famous environmental and ethnic minority rights campaigner and writer. This history of a complex personality that successfully seized the national and global stage in the 1990s, also brilliantly explores the unfinished ramifications of his untimely death.”“A brilliant new biography by Roy Doron and Toyin Falola places Saro-Wiwa’s activism into the broader context of his life, his experiences in public administration and the arts, and his persistent and nuanced view of the role that ethnicity and identity should play in post-colonial Nigeria. The book is an accessible and affordable read that speaks to anyone interested in Nigerian history and politics.” * Washington Post online *“This short, highly enjoyable book provides a comprehensive perspective on this Renaissance man by situating him in the broader historical context of Nigeria’s turbulent 20th century. A great introduction to Saro-Wiwa and his world for anyone with an interest in African studies, literary criticism, environmental history, or case studies in international or human rights law. Summing up: Highly recommended.” * CHOICE *“This book is slim but powerful—which should be a great asset to Afri- canists and human-rights activists, who have made it their duty worldwide to document the inhumane treatment of writers and political activists like Ken Saro-Wiwa and his eight doomed colleagues.” * Africa Today *

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Book SynopsisThe latest in the Ohio Short Histories of Africa series, Josie Mpama/Palmer: Get Up and Get Moving tells the story of Josie Mpama/Palmer’s activism and political legacy in South Africa and around the world.Trade Review“A fascinating, deeply researched biography of a key figure in black South African politics—a wonderful addition to our understanding of the early history of the South African Communist Party. The chapters on Josie Mpama’s family history are particularly illuminating on the complexities of ‘race’ in South African society.”“Robert R. Edgar presents the remarkable life story of little-known South African activist Josie Mpama/Palmer in this fascinating biography.”“Would make a wonderful supplemental text to courses in resistance politics, Black internationalism, and gendered activism, and students at both the undergraduate and graduate level will appreciate its readability.” * H-Net / H-Africa *

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Book SynopsisGeorge M. Houser’s moral integrity and influential advocacy for nonviolent protest helped shape the American Civil Rights Movement, anticolonial independence victories across Africa, and the overthrow of the South African apartheid regime.Trade Review“Highly recommended.” * Choice *“Sheila D. Collins, one of the most prolific—and progressive—authors of her generation, has just gifted us with her latest work, a biography of the anti-apartheid activist George Houser. Deftly written and passionately argued, this is the definitive account of one of the most important US activists of the latter part of the twentieth century.”“This book will inspire you to follow your social justice conscience and act. George Houser spent his life acting for and with people whose voices had been muted by oppression. He challenged unjust wars, racial segregation in the United States, and colonialism across the globe and, especially, in Africa. For me he will be best be remembered for fighting apartheid. I was lucky to join him in the latter years of the struggle and to stand together on the steps of the Union Buildings in Pretoria at Nelson Mandela’s inauguration. George Houser is nothing short of a hero. His story has been brilliantly told by Sheila Collins and is a must read for anyone seeking inspiration that anything and everything is possible.”

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Book SynopsisGeorge M. Houser’s moral integrity and influential advocacy for nonviolent protest helped shape the American Civil Rights Movement, anticolonial independence victories across Africa, and the overthrow of the South African apartheid regime.Trade Review“Highly recommended.” * Choice *“Sheila D. Collins, one of the most prolific—and progressive—authors of her generation, has just gifted us with her latest work, a biography of the anti-apartheid activist George Houser. Deftly written and passionately argued, this is the definitive account of one of the most important US activists of the latter part of the twentieth century.”“This book will inspire you to follow your social justice conscience and act. George Houser spent his life acting for and with people whose voices had been muted by oppression. He challenged unjust wars, racial segregation in the United States, and colonialism across the globe and, especially, in Africa. For me he will be best be remembered for fighting apartheid. I was lucky to join him in the latter years of the struggle and to stand together on the steps of the Union Buildings in Pretoria at Nelson Mandela’s inauguration. George Houser is nothing short of a hero. His story has been brilliantly told by Sheila Collins and is a must read for anyone seeking inspiration that anything and everything is possible.”

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Book SynopsisA study of the evolution of the Community Economic Development movement, paying particular attention to the institutional and legal mechanisms it utilises.Trade Review“A good overview of the intellectual roots and current policy context for the growing movement to rebuild this country’s communities.”—Martin Eakes, C.E.O., Self Help Credit Union“An original, informative, and important contribution to the fields of urban studies and social policy.”—Richard Briffault, Columbia Law School“An outstanding book on a very important subject. Simon has pulled together the many complex strands and woven them into a very readable, comprehensive story.”—Joel F. Handler, author of Down from Bureaucracy: The Ambiguity of Privatization and Empowerment“Community-based organizations are flourishing despite the atrophy of key parts of America's traditional civil society and turmoil in the provision of public services. Simon gives a compelling, coherent account of their success as an institutionally innovative revival of the republican idea of liberty. Whether you agree or not with the thesis, Simon's deeply informed and carefully argued book is an indispensable point of reference in the intensifying debate about the political vitality of the local in the age of the global.”—Charles Sabel, Columbia Law SchoolTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Background: The Turn to Community-Based Organizations in Social Policy 3. Three Logics of Community Action 4. The Community as Beneficiary of Economic Development 5. The Community as Agent of Economic Development 6. Constrained Property: Rights as Anchors 7. Induced Mobilization 8. Institutional Hybridization 9. The Limits of CED Index

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Book SynopsisAnthropologists offer new perspectives on how transnational migration and global flows of communications, commodities, and biotechnologies affect the reproductive lives of women and men in diverse societies throughout the world.Trade Review“Building on Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp’s pathbreaking work, Carole H. Browner and Carolyn F. Sargent’s Reproduction, Globalization, and the State situates anthropological approaches to globalizing and gendered practices, politics, and policies of reproduction firmly in the twenty-first century. This rich collection of multisited studies contributes to multidisciplinary approaches to global ethnography and will enliven debates in research and teaching alike.”—Gail Kligman, author of The Politics of Duplicity: Controlling Reproduction in Ceauşescu’s Romania“These fascinating and provocative essays represent some of the most exciting scholarship on the anthropology of reproduction.”—Lynn M. Morgan, author of Icons of Life: A Cultural History of Human Embryos“This welcome, timely collection illuminates the rapidly transforming landscape of reproduction worldwide by bringing together case studies by outstanding ethnographers known for their research on reproduction. Each contributor demonstrates an impressive grip on local circumstances, while also showing how those circumstances are inevitably shaped by state policies or inaction. The editors’ introduction explains the sophisticated theoretical and methodological approaches brought to bear throughout the collection, and Rayna Rapp’s foreword and Didier Fassin’s epilogue sharpen the framework of a book that will set the standard for research on reproduction and globalization for the next decade.”—Faye Ginsburg, co-editor of Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction“Reproduction, Globalization, and the State is an important contribution to global debates on reproductive health and rights, since it serves as awelcome reminder that reproduction, despite its universality as a central feature of human societies, never takes place in a vacuum.” -- Andrea Lynch * Gender and Development *“The themes presented in this volume are highly topical; the complexities of studying the local and the global, the micro and the macro, are well illustrated; and the theoretical notions the chapters build on are clearly explained. These three qualities, together with a thought-provoking foreword by Rayna Rapp and epilogue by Didier Fassin, make this volume highly recommendable for academics and others interested in the field of reproduction and globalization.” -- Trudie Gerrits * Medische Antropologie *“This book is not only geographically wide ranging but it also encompasses many aspects of human reproduction…. Browner and Sargent have found room in this volume for scholarship on many diverse aspects of individuals’ reproductive journeys. . . . These aspects make it a refreshing, illuminating and diverse read[…]… At a point where concerns over the availability of funding for the social sciences are paramount, this book reminds us of the importance of social science research regarding men and women’s reproductive lives.” -- Samantha Murphy * Sociology of Health & Illness *“This is a diverse and unique collection of ethnographies that illustrates the various complexities of reproduction and reproductive health for women and men. The strength of the volume is the attempt to conceptualize human agency and the exploration of how reproduction in varying communities are influenced by global and state institutions, policies, ideologies, and biotechnology.” -- Dana Chalupa * Gendered Perspectives on International Development *It is refreshing to find a well-written, cohesive edited volume. . . . Professionals and students alike should find this work appealing; it can serve as an introduction to pivotal issues in the field, yet also delves into key theoretical concepts and methodological approaches in health policy, gender studies, public health, and anthropology. The book is theoretically rich without being overly dense, and this winning combination standsa good chance of bringing anthropological theory and methods into the boardrooms of policymakers.” -- Vania Smith-Oka * Studies in Family Planning *Table of ContentsForeword / Rayna Rapp ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. Toward Global Anthropological Studies of Reproduction: Concepts, Methods, Theoretical Approaches / Carole H. Browner and Carolyn F. Sargent 1 Part I. Global Technologies, State Policies, and Local Realities/ Introduction to Part I 19 1. Global Ethnography: Problems of Theory and Method / Susan L. Erickson 23 2. Globalizing, Reproducing, and Civilizing the Rural Subjects: Population Control Policy and Constructions of Rural Identity in China / Junjie Chen 38 3. Planning Men Out of Family Planning: A Case Study from Mexico / Matthew Gutmann 53 4. Antiviral but Pronatal? ARVS and Reproductive Health: The View from a South African Township / Lisa Ann Richey 68 5. Birth in the Age of AIDS: Local Responses to Global Policies and Technologies in South India / Cecilia Van Hollen 83 6. Competing Globalizing Influences on Local Muslim Women's Reproductive Health and Human Rights in Sudan: Women's Rights, International Feminism, and Islamism / Ellen Gruenbaum 96 Part II. Biotechnology, Biocommerce, and Body Commodification/ Introduction to Part II 111 7. Reproductive Viability and the State: Embryonic Stem Cell Research in India / Aditya Bharadwaj 113 8. Globalization and Gametes: Islam, Assisted Reproductive Technologies, and the Middle Eastern State / Marcia C. Inhorn 126 9. Law, Technology, and Gender Relations: Following the Path of DNA Paternity Tests in Brazil / Claudia Fonseca 138 Part III. Consequences of Population Movements for Agency, Structure, and Reproductive Processes/ Introduction to Part III 155 10. From Sex Workers to Tourism Workers: A Structural Approach to Male Sexual Labor in Dominican Tourism Areas / Mark B. Padilla 159 11. Family Reunification Ideals and the Practice of Transnational Reproductive Life among Africans in Europe / Caroline H. Bledsoe and Papa Sow 175 12. Problematizing Polygamy, Managing Maternity: The Intersections of Global, State, and Family Politics in the Lives of West African Migrant Women in France / Carolyn F. Sargent 192 13. Lost in Translation: Lessons from California on the Implementation of State-Mandated Fetal Diagnosis in the Context of Globalization / Carole H. Browner 204 14. Reproductive Rights in No-Woman's-Land: Politics and Humanitarian Assistance / Linda M. Whiteford and Aimee R. Eden 224 Epilogue. The Mystery Child and the Politics of Reproduction: Between National Imaginaries and Transnational Confrontations / Didier Fassin 239 References 249 Contributors 277 Index 281

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Book SynopsisLending Power is the compelling story of the nonprofit Center for Community Self-Help, a community-oriented and civil rights-based financial institution that has helped provide loans to those who lacked access to traditional financing while fighting for consumer protection for all Americans.Trade Review"Lending Power is Howard Covington’s uplifting and compelling account of a credit union that champions the underserved.... This is a positive, inspiring look at a socially conscious, soundly managed mission-driven organization." -- Barry Silverstein * Foreword Reviews *"The book offers important perspectives on the Great Recession mortgage crisis.... Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- E. C. Erickson * Choice *"The story not just of the rise of a radical credit union but also of its role in the community that shaped it, which saw it work with churches, civil rights activists, maverick philanthropists and city planners to deliver change. . . . Lively and absorbing...." * Co-Op News *"Howard Covington Jr.'s work provides an interesting and engaging description of Self-Help Credit Union and the CRL. . . . Lending Power clearly provides an excellent example of social entrepreneurship that can provide valuable lessons for anyone working to accomplish a social objective." -- Stephen G. Morrissette * Business History Review *"Covington’s account of an alternative model of banking, credit, and economic empowerment thus suggests both the historical and the political imperatives of excavating the voices who have long occupied the sidelines of debates about the organization of American capitalism. In this regard, Lending Power is an important intervention." -- Alec Hickmott * Journal of Southern History *Table of ContentsForeword / Darren Walker vii 1. Self-Help Who? 1 2. A First Step 9 3. A Financial Institution 23 4. Turning Point 37 5. Innovation 49 6. An "Aha" Moment 63 7. "We Did Not Have to Be Geniuses" 71 8. Cy Pres 85 9. "Shit Disturbers" 97 10. A Box of Rattlesnakes 117 11. The Emperor's Naked 131 12. "We're Here Forever" 147 13. Self-Help Federal—A National Institution 159 14. The Mission 175 Final Notes 191 Notes 195 Index 205

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Book SynopsisPatrick Ireland argues that it is incorrect to expect unavoidable conflict between Muslim immmigrants and European host socieites. His insighful work shows that institutions matter more than culture in determining the shape and style of ethnic relations.Trade ReviewA considerable feat of scholarship combining genuine innovation with real insight into Europe's complex politics of migration and ethnicity. - Andrew Geddes, University of Liverpool; ""Ireland has done a masterful job in addressing a number of interrelated issues: the entitlements of citizenship; socioeconomic integration and cultural diversity; and the future of the welfare state in face of the pressures of globalization. - William Safran, University of Colorado; ""A strikingly original analysis of how welfare reform affects immigrant incorporation."" - Gary P. Freeman, University of Texas at Austin

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Book SynopsisThis third volume in the pioneering series, International Humanitarian Affairs, goes beyond the practical to address fundamental questions at the heart of humanitarian actions. How do different religious, cultural, and social systemsand the values they supportshape humanitarian action? What are the bases of caring societies? Are there universal values for human well-being? International experts come face to face with the assumptions about human dignity and social justice that guide efforts to rescue and repair communities in crisis. The original essays explore mandates for humanitarian action in religious traditions, and codes of conduct for the media, military, medicine, and the academy in relief efforts. They explore threats to human welfare from terrorism and gender exploitation and assess international law, the media, and the politics of civil society in a world of war, conflict, and strife. The contributors: Kofi Annan, Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., Rabbi HarlaTrade Review"...it is both insturctive and refreshing to find a volume in which academic analysis and less formal, though no less compelling reflection bring to light the human difficulties involved in responding to human tragedies." -Journal of Humanitarian Assistance "Traditions, Values, and Humanitarian Action is a satisfying collection of rich and varied perspectives, some new, some difficult to digest, and all feeding the need to understand the complexities of these issues in a rapidly changing world." -- -Lesley Morrison The Lancet

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Book SynopsisCounter Institution is a history of three re-purposed buildings in the Lower East Side--Peace Pentagon, ABC No Rio, and El Bohio--that have been used by activists as their headquarters to launch various actions over the past forty years.

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Book SynopsisAn important new volume showcasing a wide range of faith-based responses to one of today's most pressing social issues, challenging us to expand our ways of understanding. Land of Stark Contrasts brings together the work of social scientists, ethicists, and theologians exploring the profound role of religion in understanding and responding to homelessness and housing insecurity in all corners of the United Statesfrom Seattle, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley to Dallas and San Antonio to Washington, D.C., and Boston. Together, the essays of Land of Stark Contrasts chart intriguing ways forward for future initiatives to address the root causes of homelessness. In this way they are essential reading for practical theologians, congregational leaders, and faith-based nonprofit organizers exploring how to combine spiritual and material care for homeless individuals and other vulnerable populations. Social workers, nonprofit managers, and policy specialists seeking to understand how to parTable of ContentsIntroduction Manuel Mejido Costoya | 1 Part I: Public Religion and Community Revitalization Talking About Homelessness: Shifting Discourses and the Appeal to Religion in America’s Seventh-Largest City James V. Spickard | 49 Becoming More Effective Community Problem Solvers: Faith-Based Organizations, Civic Capacity, and the Homelessness Crisis in Puget Sound Manuel Mejido Costoya and Margaret Breen | 72 Disenfranchising the Unhoused: Urban Redevelopment, the Criminalization of Homelessness, and the Peril of Prosperity Theology in Dallas and Beyond Michael R. Fisher Jr. | 117 Religious Responses to Homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area: Addressing White Supremacy and Racism Laura Stivers | 140 Homelessness and Health in Seattle: Challenges and Opportunities of Faith-Based Services Lauren Valk Lawson | 162 Part II: Religious Worldviews and the Common Good Reimagined Homelessness and Coast Salish Spiritual Traditions: Cultural Resources for Programmatic Responses in British Columbia Bruce Granville Miller | 193 In These United States, Homelessness Is Who You Are: Examining a Socially Constructed Category through the Lens of an Interfaith Encounter in Downtown Boston Nancy A. Khalil | 214 Religion and Civic Activism Reconsidered: Situating Faith-Based Responses to Homelessness John A. Coleman, S.J. | 226 On the Passionality of Exile in Medieval Kabbalah: An Invitation to Historicize Contemporary Religious and Public Discourses on Homelessness Jeremy Phillip Brown | 250 Part III: Theological Insights for Homeless Ministries Wounds of Love: Spiritual Care and Homelessness in the Streets of Seattle Paul Houston Blankenship | 277 Making Spirits Whole: Homeless Ministries as a Tool for Integral Development María Teresa Dávila | 297 “And I Saw Googleville Descend from Heaven”: Reading the New Jerusalem in Gentrified Latinx Communities of Silicon Valley Roberto Mata | 316 Offensive Wisdom: Homeless Neighbors, Bible Interpretation, and the Abode of God in Washington, D.C. Sathianathan Clarke | 331 Acknowledgments | 351 List of Contributors | 353 Index | 357

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Book SynopsisAn important new volume showcasing a wide range of faith-based responses to one of today's most pressing social issues, challenging us to expand our ways of understanding. Land of Stark Contrasts brings together the work of social scientists, ethicists, and theologians exploring the profound role of religion in understanding and responding to homelessness and housing insecurity in all corners of the United Statesfrom Seattle, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley to Dallas and San Antonio to Washington, D.C., and Boston. Together, the essays of Land of Stark Contrasts chart intriguing ways forward for future initiatives to address the root causes of homelessness. In this way they are essential reading for practical theologians, congregational leaders, and faith-based nonprofit organizers exploring how to combine spiritual and material care for homeless individuals and other vulnerable populations. Social workers, nonprofit managers, and policy specialists seeking to understand how to parTable of ContentsIntroduction Manuel Mejido Costoya | 1 Part I: Public Religion and Community Revitalization Talking About Homelessness: Shifting Discourses and the Appeal to Religion in America’s Seventh-Largest City James V. Spickard | 49 Becoming More Effective Community Problem Solvers: Faith-Based Organizations, Civic Capacity, and the Homelessness Crisis in Puget Sound Manuel Mejido Costoya and Margaret Breen | 72 Disenfranchising the Unhoused: Urban Redevelopment, the Criminalization of Homelessness, and the Peril of Prosperity Theology in Dallas and Beyond Michael R. Fisher Jr. | 117 Religious Responses to Homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area: Addressing White Supremacy and Racism Laura Stivers | 140 Homelessness and Health in Seattle: Challenges and Opportunities of Faith-Based Services Lauren Valk Lawson | 162 Part II: Religious Worldviews and the Common Good Reimagined Homelessness and Coast Salish Spiritual Traditions: Cultural Resources for Programmatic Responses in British Columbia Bruce Granville Miller | 193 In These United States, Homelessness Is Who You Are: Examining a Socially Constructed Category through the Lens of an Interfaith Encounter in Downtown Boston Nancy A. Khalil | 214 Religion and Civic Activism Reconsidered: Situating Faith-Based Responses to Homelessness John A. Coleman, S.J. | 226 On the Passionality of Exile in Medieval Kabbalah: An Invitation to Historicize Contemporary Religious and Public Discourses on Homelessness Jeremy Phillip Brown | 250 Part III: Theological Insights for Homeless Ministries Wounds of Love: Spiritual Care and Homelessness in the Streets of Seattle Paul Houston Blankenship | 277 Making Spirits Whole: Homeless Ministries as a Tool for Integral Development María Teresa Dávila | 297 “And I Saw Googleville Descend from Heaven”: Reading the New Jerusalem in Gentrified Latinx Communities of Silicon Valley Roberto Mata | 316 Offensive Wisdom: Homeless Neighbors, Bible Interpretation, and the Abode of God in Washington, D.C. Sathianathan Clarke | 331 Acknowledgments | 351 List of Contributors | 353 Index | 357

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Book SynopsisPublic–Private Partnerships (PPPs) promise much and present an exciting policy option.Trade Review‘. . . the volume is a timely, comprehensive, and valuable addition to the literature, which deserves to be widely read.’ -- Richard Allen, Governance‘. . . the Handbook informs, engages, questions, criticises and educates.’ -- Business Line‘As politicians across the world have loudly debated how best to shrink the size of government, clever entrepreneurs have pushed off in a very different direction: creating complex partnerships between government and the private sector, which have pushed government more deeply into the private sector and pulled private partnerships more deeply into the core of government. In this important new book, the editors have pulled together a fascinating collection of papers that examines how these partnerships are transforming the provision of services and, in fact, the very nature of governance itself.’ -- Donald F. Kettl, University of Maryland, US‘Public–private partnerships are a familiar subject, but this volume makes it clear just how much interesting research is being done on the topic at present. This is an extremely useful collection of papers that will be essential reading for anyone interested in partnerships and public policy more generally.’ -- B. Guy Peters, University of Pittsburgh, USTable of ContentsContents: PART I: CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS 1. Introduction: The PPP Phenomenon and its Evaluation Graeme A. Hodge, Carsten Greve and Anthony E. Boardman 2. Mixes and Partnerships through Time Roger Wettenhall 3. A Brief Intellectual History of the Public–Private Partnership Movement Tony Bovaird 4. Public–Private Partnerships: Deciphering Meaning, Message and Phenomenon Erik-Hans Klijn 5. Reviewing Public–Private Partnerships: Some Thoughts on Evaluation Graeme A. Hodge PART II: DISCIPLINARY THEMES IN PUBLIC–PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS 6. Splintered Logic and Political Debate Matthew Flinders 7. The Economics of Public–Private Partnerships: Some Theoretical Contributions Jean-Etienne de Bettignies and Thomas W. Ross 8. Assessing the Economic Worth of Public–Private Partnerships Anthony E. Boardman and Aidan R. Vining 9. Different Delivery Models Colin F. Duffield 10. Law and Regulatory Aspects of Public–Private Partnerships: Contract Law and Public Procurement Law Christina D. Tvarnø 11. Accounting for PPPs in a Converging World David Heald and George Georgiou 12. Risk Management Rui Sousa Monteiro 13. Governing Partnerships Chris Skelcher PART III: EMPIRICAL EXPERIENCE IN PUBLIC–PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS 14. The UK’s Private Finance Initiative: History, Evaluation, Prospects Mark Hellowell 15. Empirical PPP Experiences in Europe: National Variations of a Global Concept Gerhard Hammerschmid and Tamyko Ysa 16. P3s in North America: Renting the Money (in Canada), Selling the Roads (in the USA) Anthony E. Boardman and Aidan R. Vining 17. The Australian PPP Experience: Observations and Reflections Graeme A. Hodge and Colin F. Duffield 18. Public–Private Partnerships: The Scandinavian Experience Carsten Greve and Ulrika Mörth 19. Empirical Evidence of Infrastructure Public–Private Partnerships: Lessons from the World Bank Experience Paul Noumba-Um 20. Public–Private Partnerships: The United Nations Experience Benedicte Bull PART IV: CRUCIAL ISSUES FOR THE FUTURE 21. The Global Public–Private Partnership Industry Carsten Greve 22. Towards a Process Perspective on Public–Private Partnerships Guðrið Weihe 23. PPPs in Developed and Developing Economies: What Lessons can be Learned? David Parker and Catarina Figueira 24. A Review of Transport Public–Private Partnerships in the UK Jean Shaoul 25. Reviewing Public–Private Partnership Performance in Developing Economies Argentino Pessoa 26. Conclusions: Public–Private Partnerships – International Experiences and Future Challenges Graeme A. Hodge, Carsten Greve and Anthony E. Boardman Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing together international perspectives and disciplinary sub-fields of comparative and global social policy, this book provides an insightful guide for educators and academics embarking on or revisiting the design and teaching of classes, courses and programmes in and around social and public policy.Trade Review‘Boasting an excellent array of contributors, this refreshing and insightful guide supports instructors in reimagining and recontextualizing established debates, and asserting the racialised and patriarchal underpinnings of social policy. Whether you are thinking of developing a new course, unit or programme, or updating and revising established material, this text is a “must-read.” It is also relevant for all instructors seeking to move the empirical and analytical focus of their teaching beyond national boundaries, thereby increasing the relevance and appeal to a diverse student body.’ -- Patricia Kennett, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xii Acknowledgements xiv 1 International, comparative and global perspectives in social policy teaching: introduction 1 Zoë Irving PART I EXPLORING THE SCOPE OF INTERNATIONAL, COMPARATIVE AND GLOBAL SOCIAL POLICY TEACHING 2 What counts as ‘social policy’ in comparative, international and global context? 13 Kevin Farnsworth 3 Teaching comparative and international social policy through the lenses of political economy 26 Niccolo Durazzi and Markus Ketola 4 Comparative theoretical and methodological approaches in social policy teaching 42 Ijin Hong 5 Bringing the world beyond welfare states back into social policy teaching 57 Ndangwa Noyoo 6 Teaching about global social policy 71 Noémi Lendvai-Bainton 7 Teaching about the role of ideas in social policy 85 Daniel Béland and Ronen Mandelkern 8 Race matters in teaching about international social policy and protection 98 Lata Narayanaswamy 9 Bringing gender into teaching social policy in international comparative and global context 115 Julia Lux PART II CONTEXT AND TOOLS IN TEACHING AND LEARNING INTERNATIONAL, COMPARATIVE AND GLOBAL SOCIAL POLICY 10 Adding the social to the public, and the international to the social: the study of social and public policy, old and new 130 Gaby Ramia 11 Teaching qualitative research in comparative social policy 145 Sirin Sung 12 Teaching international and comparative policy analysis 159 John Hudson 13 Asynchronous online learning and teaching: principles of programme design, teaching practice, and study support 172 Enrico Reuter 14 Designing a social policy curriculum for international, comparative and global learning 187 Zoë Irving 15 Useful sources in social and public policy teaching – an annotated collection of contributor choices 202 Edited by Zoë Irving Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘To tackle today’s challenges in the context of globalization, the authors argue the role of the European Union should be even more centre-stage, not just technocratically, but also politically, to more actively develop an “Eco-Social Union”, complementing the core functions of democracies and welfare states. This elegantly composed book is strongly recommended for scholars, students and policymakers.’ -- Caroline de la Porte, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark‘This unique volume not only provides an insightful account of the deep social transformations and policy dilemmas in today’s post-industrial economies, it also does what other books don’t: it proposes an intellectual framework and reform proposals for bringing progressive policy making forward. A very welcome contribution in challenging times.’ -- Amandine Crespy, Université libre de Bruxelles, BelgiumTable of ContentsContents: 1 A Great Transformation, again: introduction 2 Post-industrial, educated but ‘precarious’: the society of the twenty-first century 3 Globalisation, inequality, insecurity 4 The digital economy and the changing world of work 5 Investing, including, encouraging: the new welfare state 6 The social dimension of the European Union through crises and beyond 7 After COVID-19: towards a new eco-social agenda 8 Social Reformism 2.0: robust protections, effective capacities, more and richer opportunities Conclusions: a long pan-European march Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWestern Welfare Capitalisms in Good Times and Bad provides an insightful appraisal of policy priorities and outcomes in four Western regimes: the Anglo-American liberal regimes, Southern European ‘proto-corporatist’ regimes, the historically social democratic Scandinavian regimes, and Western European conservative-corporatist regimes.Trade Review‘This book not only offers many statistical indicators that describe the social situations in the countries studied very well, but it also clarifies terms that often cause confusion. For example, it explains how the term “liberal” is used in different cultures.’ -- Gert G. Wagner, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany‘This book provides a comprehensive, comparative analysis of recent welfare state policies and achievements. Drawing on national and international data, the authors examine welfare policies and outcomes before, during and after the financial and Covid crises. The findings are innovative, compelling and at times provocative, but always engaging and thought-provoking. The book is essential reading for welfare state scholars, students and anyone interested in the recent socio-economic history of capitalist nations.’ -- Peter Saunders, University of New South Wales, Sydney, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: PART I WELFARE-CAPITALIST REGIMES: POLICY PRIORITIES AND POLICY OUTCOMES 1. What are governments for? 2. Worlds of welfare capitalism 3. International comparisons, international data PART II COMPARING POLICY PERFORMANCE. 4. The Global Financial Crisis: a crisis within the economic system 5. Reducing poverty and income inequality 6. Wealth inequality: the one that got away 7. Reducing gender inequality 8. Enhancing personal autonomy 9. Promoting economic growth and rising living standards 10. Promoting economic security and social stability 11. Enhancing life satisfaction: a shared priority? PART III A CURRENT CRISIS: COPING WITH COVID. 12 Coping with Covid: public health responses – the trade-off that didn’t exist 13 Coping with Covid: fiscal, monetary, labour market, welfare and environmental policy responses PART IV WESTERN WELFARE CAPITALISMS: CONVERGENCE OR CONTINUITY. 14. Welfare-capitalist regimes in the 21st century: still delivering distinctive policy outcomes, little evidence of convergence Appendix 1. Ireland: a welfare-capitalist regime that defies classification Appendix 2. Western welfare publics support the welfare state ‒ in principle References Index

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Book SynopsisThis unique and forward-thinking book explores how we understand needs in relation to the welfare state and to what extent we can, if at all, measure need.Trade Review‘How are human needs defined and how are welfare states addressing them? This accessible and timely book answers this question by covering topics like the difference between needs and wants, the relationship between needs and poverty, and the role of income transfers, social services and private actors in meeting human needs.’ -- Daniel Béland, McGill University, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1 Human needs in welfare states? 2 What are needs? 3 Demographic changes and the impact on demand and need for welfare states 4 Quality, needs and the welfare state 5 Needs and income transfers 6 Welfare services – how to define needs? 7 Who has the responsibility to cover needs? 8 Does legitimacy influence what is understood as needs? 9 Differences across welfare states and welfare regimes 10 Human needs and the welfare state: by way of conclusion

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Book SynopsisAt last â a textbook on the public sector for students of social policy, public policy, political science and sociology. This book explains why we have a public sector and what tasks it is expected to perform.Trade Review‘Recent years have witnessed the “Return of the State” after decades of spreading neo-liberalism and market ideology. Bent Greve’s book is a very well written text able to capture the old and new roles of the public sector in contemporary societies. It provides interesting and valuable insights both for scholars and students into how the relationship between the state, the market and society has been evolving and the present and future challenges.’ -- Emmanuele Pavolini, University of Macerata, Italy‘What is the public sector? Why is public spending necessary, and how is it funded and managed? Greve offers a clear, non-ideological account of the nature of the public sector in developed economies. His analysis of the complex connections between public and private, state and market, provides readers with a timely guide to this most fundamental of all relationships in the public sphere.’ -- Nick Ellison, University of York, UK‘This book is an excellent guide for students and professionals in public and social policy, helping them to understand the economic issues in policy making. The key concepts in public sector economics are clearly presented, with explanations of current debates and references to the most recent literature. The multiple economic and social effects of public sector and welfare state measures, and their mutual relationships are also well explained. Bent Greve illuminates the conceptual debate with compelling empirical illustrations which spark and maintain the interest of the reader. Last, but not the least, Greve accentuates new important topics not commonly included in textbooks: the social investment perspective and the consequences of this for policy making, international influences on national public sector economics (including EMU), and current developmental challenges for the public sector such as societal ageing, external shocks on economies and technological change.’ -- Tomáš Sirovátka, Masaryk University, CzechiaTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. The role of the public sector 2. Allocation, distribution and stabilization 3. Market failure and other reasons for public interventions 4. Size of the public sector 5. Taxation and impact on societies 6. Fiscal policy – what works what does not work 7. Steering of the public sector economy 8. In-cash benefits – the role of the public sector 9. In-kind benefits – the service of the public sector 10. International influence, including the Economic and Monetary Union 11. A social investment perspective on public sector spending 12. Challenges for the public sector – a few concluding remarks Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘This is a significant and inspiring work inviting a rethinking of modern social policies. Kananen introduces the concept of creative social policy anchored in history, social and economic theory. He argues forcefully for the strengthening of the emancipatory aspects of social policy in a politically unstable world in which current forms of economic production appear environmentally unsustainable.’ -- Stein Kuhnle, University of Bergen, Norway‘Johannes Kananen develops an inspiring and novel account of creative social policy to articulate a vision for the next step in the development of the modern welfare state. It is well motivated in today’s world of relentless neoliberal austerity and increasing social inequities. In addition to an effective critique of status quo economics, the author offers well thought-out solutions. These include differentiating between needs and wants, Universal Basic Income, and a Universal Seed Money fund for enterprises to develop citizens’ creative potentials. Kananen’s vision points in a direction where policy decisions are guided by an aim to foster human potential, instead of our current tired default to favor economic growth regardless of its impact on individuals, society, and the environment. I welcome these fresh insights and comprehensive creative social policy proposals.’ -- S.M. Amadae, University of Helsinki, Finland and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US‘This book offers an imaginative new direction for social policy, intended to further human interests at the social rather than the individual level.’ -- Peter Taylor-Gooby, University of Kent, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface and acknowledgements 1 Introduction: transformative social policy 2 Knowledge, economics imperialism and social policy 3 An expanded form of social policy knowledge: from social engineering to co-creation 4 Creative social policy 5 The historicity of creative social policy 6 The establishment of central bank independence, fiscal austerity and a distinction between the deserving and undeserving poor 7 Creative social policy and neoclassical economics 8 The transformation of the functions of work and capital 9 Creative social policy in practice: transforming the functions of work and capital through Universal Basic Income (UBI) and Universal Seed Money (USM) 10 Conclusion: a new flow of money and the future of social policy References

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Book SynopsisThis innovative book delves into the concept of social justice in the VisegrÃd countries through a rigorous examination of two demographics: working mothers and the unemployed. Using new empirical data, SÃra Hungler analyses the experiences of these groups from the perspectives of redistribution, recognition and representation.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘Greener, in his great book, is actually saying that we live in a completely new age, but its pains and joys are very closely related to historical experience and the achievements that humanity has realised. As a response to a new situation and to a turning point in history, there is no need to look for completely new tools. It is only necessary to identify precisely the giants to which we must respond and, at the same time, examine what tools to use to respond to these giants as they are, which to modify and which to use in a completely new way. The book and its presence in libraries will certainly be appreciated not only by students and researchers, but also by anyone who is concerned with the conception or use of any sociopolitical tool - in short, all those who come into contact with social protection in the broadest sense of the word, whether as providers or recipients.’ -- European Journal of Social Security‘There is much in this book that will be of interest to social policy scholars who will commend the au­thor's attempt to examine current social challenges in the historical context of the Beveridge Report. The book is well-written, and its methodology and statistical analysis are clearly explained. In addi­tion, the author raises a number of critically important issues which have not been adequately addressed by social policy writers. ... an ambitious and welcome addition to the literature which deserves to be widely read.’BR> -- Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare‘How can Beveridge’s “Five Giants” be rearticulated as key social problems in contemporary society? Which countries do better than others in responding to these problems and why? These are important questions, and Ian Greener’s book addresses them with a fascinating and original analysis, making use of a combination of comparative methods which help to illustrate the different ways in which countries deal with societal challenges. This book is a “must read” for all those interested in the role of social policies and institutions in modern welfare states.’ -- Jochen Clasen, The University of Edinburgh, UK‘This text is essential reading for the study of comparative social policy. It explores and accounts for the five “New Giants” for 24 developed nations using the relatively novel approach of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). It is the right book at the right time by the right person.’ -- Martin Powell, University of Birmingham, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. The Beveridge Report today 2. The New Giants 3. The method in Welfare States in the 21st Century 4. Inequality 5. Preventable mortality 6. The crisis of democracy 7. Job quality 8. Environmental degradation Conclusion to Welfare States in the 21st Century Epilogue: the New Giants and COVID-19 Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe importance of subnational welfare measures, and their complexembeddedness in wider multilevel governance systems, has often been underplayed in both urban studies and social policy analysis. This Handbook gives readers the analytical tools to understand urban social policies in context, and bridges the gap in research.Trade Review‘Urban contexts have been major sites for the emergence of new social risks and the reconfiguration of welfare in terms of actors, governance and modes of provision. This impressive Handbook elucidates ongoing transformations, through a collection of up-to-date analyses and a path breaking dialogue between different disciplinary perspectives.’ -- Maurizio Ferrera, University of Milan, Italy‘The rich contributions of this book offer a complex view of the dynamics which shape local social policies, in the interaction between context specificity, diversity ad multiplicity of actors, national and international regulations. The multidisciplinary approach and its implementation on an ample range of context and time specific cases integrates and goes beyond literatures that have developed in isolation from each other, opening new avenues for research.’ -- Chiara Saraceno, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin, Italy‘Emphasizing the territorial nature of social policy and the key role of cities for social inclusion, this Handbook contributes directly to the field of comparative social policy studies. Gathering excellent contributors, it is an indispensable reference volume for students of multilevel governance and local social policy.’ -- Daniel Béland, McGill University, Canada‘It has long been assumed that social welfare is, and should be, a matter for the centralized nation-state. Yet, as this collection shows, the restructuring of welfare and rescaling of social, economic and political life have created both new forms of inequality and new policies to address them. Problems have been redefined, power dynamics have shifted and policy-making systems transformed to create place-specific welfare compromises. The book charts the broad trends to centralisation and decentralisation in social policies while providing contextual analysis of their varied impact in different places.’ -- Michael Keating, Emeritus Professor of Politics, University of Aberdeen, UK‘This terrific volume gives voice to leading European thinkers in conversation with peers from the U.S., Southern Africa, Brazil, China, and Japan about building on the crucial insight that social welfare policies vary as much within national systems as across them. Even in centralized systems, urban delivery practices put a strong stamp on the deployment of social policy instruments and their impact on place-based constituencies. The authors show that the centralization–decentralization dynamic is central to understanding how welfare states function and that transcending its discontents will be central to protecting the vulnerable from new social risks. The product of years of collaboration, this Handbook sets the agenda for future thinking about social policy in our precarious urban worlds.’ -- John Mollenkopf, City University of New York, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to Urban Social Policies: International Perspectives on Multilevel Governance and Local Welfare 2 Yuri Kazepov, Eduardo Barberis, Roberta Cucca and Elisabetta Mocca PART I LOCALIZING RISK AND VULNERABILITY 2 Localizing New Social Risks 24 Costanzo Ranci and Lara Maestripieri 3 Territorial Welfare Governance Changes: Concepts and Explanatory Factors 39 Eloísa del Pino, Luis Moreno and Jorge Hernández-Moreno 4 The Territorial Dimension of Social Investment in Europe 55 Yuri Kazepov and Ruggero Cefalo 5 Urban Social Innovation and the European City: Assessing the Changing Urban Welfare Mix and Its Scalar Articulation 72 Stijn Oosterlynck and Tatiana Saruis 6 Citizenship Practices and Co-Production of Local Social Policies in Southern Europe 85 Ana Belén Cano-Hila, Marc Pradel-Miquel and Marisol García 7 The Transformation of the Local Welfare System in European Cities 101 Alberta Andreotti, Enzo Mingione and Emanuele Polizzi PART II THE LOCAL DIMENSION OF TARGETED SOCIAL POLICIES 8 Care as Multi-Scalar Policy: ECEC and LTC Services across Europe 117 Marco Arlotti and Stefania Sabatinelli 9 Poverty and Multi-Layered Social Assistance in Europe 134 Sarah Marchal and Bea Cantillon 10 Institutional Logics of Service Provision: The National and Urban Governance of Activation Policies in Three European Countries 152 Vanesa Fuertes, Martin Heidenreich and Ronald McQuaid 11 The Local Dimension of Housing Policies 170 Christoph Reinprecht 12 Migration Policies at the Local Level: Constraints and Windows of Opportunities in a Contentious Field 187 Eduardo Barberis and Alba Angelucci 13 Segregation, Neighbourhood Effects and Social Mix Policies 204 Sako Musterd 14 Local segregation patterns and multilevel education policies 219 Willem Boterman and Isabel Ramos Lobato PART III THE INSTRUMENTS OF LOCAL SOCIAL POLICIES 15 Local Governance and Street-Level Bureaucracy: The Ground Floor of Social Policy 235 Peter Hupe and Trui Steen 16 National-Regional-Local Shifting Games in Multi-Tiered Welfare States 250 Giuliano Bonoli and Philipp Trein 17 Social Work and Community Work 266 Stefan Köngeter and Christian Reutlinger 18 New Public Management-Inspired Public Sector Reforms and Evaluation: Long-Term Care Provisions in European Countries 281 Hellmut Wollmann 19 Public Participation and Social Policies in Contemporary Cities 296 Roberta Cucca 20 Territorial Effects of EU Policies: Which Social Outcomes at the Local Level? 308 Iván Tosics and Laura Colini PART IV EXAMPLES OF URBAN SOCIAL POLICIES AROUND THE WORLD 21 Soziale Stadt (Social City) 325 Simon Güntner 22 The Rescaling of Social Policies in the Post-Yugoslav Space: Welfare Parallelism and Local State Capture 337 Paul Stubbs and Siniša Zrinščak 23 States of Welfare: Decentralization and Its Consequences in US Social Policy 352 Sarah K. Bruch and Colin Gordon 24 Urban Social Protection in Southern Africa 369 Jeremy Seekings 25 Social Policies and Security in Favelas and Urban Peripheries of Brazilian Cities 384 Eduardo Marques and Marta Arretche 26 Innovative (Local) Social Policies in China 399 Daniel R. Hammond 27 Urban and Local Social Policies in the Nordic Countries 415 Håkan Johansson 28 The Challenges of Activation Policies in Japan and Their Local Dimension 430 Miki Tsutsui and Shuhei Naka Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘This book is exactly what is needed now. Government and professionals alike are deeply struggling with the complex social care crisis. I know, I sit on the House of Lord's Adult Social Care Select Committee. We are all grappling with how to draft recommendations which will have any likelihood of being implemented. The book explains the type of reforms necessary, so the system works for all. The proposals which reconcile the human and financial imperatives, offer us a real opportunity to recognise and grasp the social care nettle, once and for all!’ -- Baroness Jane Campbell of Surbiton, DBE‘We tend to hear the same things time and again about social care and its crises. This book offers a breath of fresh air, presenting challenges to the usual orthodoxy and drawing on the authors' wealth of experience and involvement in social care research, practice and lived experiences.’ -- Jill Manthorpe, Professor of Social Work, King’s College London, Director of the National Institute of Health Research, Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce‘The omnipresent debate about social care in the UK, and beyond, demands a radical and imaginative solution that places rights and sustainability at its core. This book does just that, offering a coherent, accessible blueprint for a transformative, inclusive and practical approach. I really enjoyed reading it.’ -- Alisoun Milne, Professor Emeritus of Social Gerontology and Social Work, University of Kent. Research Excellence Framework 2021 Sub Panel member Social Work and Social Policy‘The authors cogently outline a credible solution to solve the adult social care crisis and set out a pathway to create a framework that provides independent living for people who need care and support. Clearly written, the book is an interesting read for service users; a must read for professionals.’ -- Donald O’Neal, Author of The Lack of Care Act 2014: Service users’ perspectives of a failing adult social care system‘In part a detailed historical account, in part a clarion call to a better future, this important analysis deserves a wide readership. Both erudite and accessible, it is written with passion and compassion. The views of people on the receiving end of social care are centre stage, as are both the evidence base to underpin policy going forward and the global forces that will shape the future context. It stands too as a celebration of social care, what it offers and what it deserves. As such, it provides the strongest possible foundation for action to transform “a Cinderella service in the shadow of healthcare” into a rights-based, sustainable and just system.’ -- Suzy Braye, Professor Emeritus Social Work, University of Sussex and formerly Editor in Chief of European Journal of Social Work‘A must-read for anyone with any interest in social care. Beresford and Slasberg have brought together their extensive knowledge to powerfully expose the realities of a system responsible for support that is essential for social well-being and of growing demographic importance yet historically neglected, under-funded and concealed from public comprehension by complexity and spin. They make a compelling case for the need for urgent change.’ -- Ellen Clifford, Disabled activist, disability consultant and writer. Author of The War on Disabled People, winner of the 2021 Bread and Roses award for radical publishing‘This book comes at a very opportune time, when social care throughout the UK is in dire need of re-acquainting itself with its foundational ethics, values and purpose. Beresford and Slasberg boldly advance a new paradigm, based on a person-centred, human rights-based approach. Written in a clear and understandable format, the book would be of equal benefit to students, policy makers, and practitioners.’ -- James Elder-Woodward, Disabled Activist, Chair of Glasgow Centre for Inclusive Living, Vice-Convenor Inclusion ScotlandTable of ContentsContents: Foreword David Brindle Introduction to The Future of Social Care PART I SOCIAL CARE IN THE UK: HOW IT WORKS AND HOW IT GOT HERE 1. Social care: the policy progress forgot 2. Sowing the seeds of dysfunction: the 1948 settlement 3. Rising awareness and falling achievement 4. The modern era, part one: the truth about eligibility 5. The modern era, part two: smoke, mirrors and elixirs 6. The social care funding fiasco PART II AN AGENDA FOR SOCIAL CARE CHANGE 7. Towards person-centred practice 8. A paradigm for an international approach to a rights-based system 9. Blueprint for a person-centred system to deliver the rights-based paradigm 10. Resistance to change PART III A CHANGING WORLD DRIVING CHANGE IN SOCIAL CARE 11. Renewing social care 12. Towards sustainable social care and independent living Index References

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive Handbook provides a fresh analysis of the balance between the state, markets and civil society that lies at the heart of all governance frameworks. Expert contributors highlight the ways in which civil society contributes to, complements and challenges traditional welfare structures.

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Book SynopsisDrawing together international perspectives and disciplinary sub-fields of comparative and global social policy, this book provides an insightful guide for educators and academics embarking on or revisiting the design and teaching of classes, courses and programmes in and around social and public policy.

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Book SynopsisEvidence and Evaluation in Social Policy examines the role of evidence in social policymaking and the extent of its influence. The chapters cover a range of topics with examples taken from around the world, and the contributors assess the ways in which scarce resources can best be used for the best care.Table of ContentsList of Contributors vii Introduction: Evidence and Evaluation in Social Policy 1 Ian Greener and Bent Greve 1 Trials and Tribulations: The ‘Use’ (and ‘Misuse’) of Evidence inPublic Policy 5 Christopher Deeming 2 Understanding the Influence of Evidence in Public Health Policy: What Can We Learn from the ‘Tobacco Wars’? 29 K. E. Smith 3 Caught in the Same Frame? The Language of Evidence-based Policy in Debates about the Australian Government ‘Intervention’ into Northern Territory Aboriginal Communities 47 Emma Partridge 4 A Systematic Review of Comparative Studies of Attitudes to Social Policy 63 Trude Sundberg and Peter Taylor-Gooby 5 Public Opinion and Policy-making 81 Ray Pawson and Geoff Wong 6 Obstacles to Evidence-based Policy-making in the EU Enlargement Countries: The Case of Skills Policies 97 Will Bartlett 7 Understanding Employment Barriers for Lone Parents in Great Britain: Research Gaps and Missed Opportunities 115 Tina Haux 8 Putting the Research Boot on the Policymakers’ Foot: Can Participatory Approaches Change the Relationship between Policymakers and Evaluation? 129 Liz Richardson Index 147

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Book SynopsisThis volume provides an up-to-date account of developments in Europe across a range of policy fields, from labour markets to disability and poverty to health care. An up-to-date account of a rapidly changing field. Covers developments across a range of policy fields, from labour markets to disability and poverty to health care. Situates debates about welfare convergence and divergence in a theoretical context. Draws on sociological, social policy, political science and economic theoretical perspectives. Written by acknowledged experts in the field. Uses case studies of particular policy areas and regional developments. Includes work on SoutherTrade Review"Provides an up-to-date account of developments in Europe across a range of policy areas, from labour markets to disability, and pverty to healthcare." International Social Security Review, Vol 58/2-3Table of Contents1. Introduction: Open markets versus Welfare Citizenship – Conflicting Approaches to Policy Convergence in Europe: Peter Taylor-Gooby (University of Kent). 2. Pressures on State Welfare in Post-industrial Societies: Is More or Less Better?: Mads Meier Jaeger (Danish National Institute Of Social Research, Copenhagen) and Jon Kvist (Danish National Institute Of Social Research, Copenhagen). 3. When Is A Change Big Enough To Be A System Shift? Small System‑Shifting Changes in German and Finnish Pension Policies: Karl Hinrichs (University of Bremen) and Olli Kangas. 4. Organisational Restructuring in European Health Systems: The Role of Primary Care: Ana Rico (European Observatory on Health Care Systems, Madrid), Richard B. Saltman and Wienke B.W. Boerma. 5. The Uncertain Convergence of Disability Policies in Western Europe: Bjørn Hvinden (Norwegian University of Science and Technology). 6. Adaptation to Labour Market Change in France and the UK: Convergent or Parallel Tracks?: Anne Daguerre (University of Kent) and Peter Taylor-Gooby (University of Kent). 7. Mending Nets in the South: Anti-Poverty Policies in Greece, Italy, Portugal And Spain: Manos Matsaganis (University of Crete), Maurizio Ferrera (University of Pavia), Luis Capucha (Higher Institute for Business and Labour Studies, Lisbon) and Luis Moreno (National Research Council, Madrid). 8. The Trajectory of Welfare State Development: The Cases of Post-Communist Bulgaria and Romania: Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos (University of Athens), Ileana Neamtu and Maya Stoyanova. 9. Convergence in the Social Welfare Systems in Europe: From Goal to Reality: Denis Bouget (Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Ange Guépin Nantes).

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Book SynopsisPractical nursing focus Emphasis on care planning and delivery Enables nurses to ensure people with intellectual disabilities get good quality care Addresses all aspects of care of people with intellectual disabilities in both general and more specialist settings.Table of ContentsPart 1. 1. The nature of care planning and delivery in intellectual disability nursing. 2. Integrated care pathways in intellectual disability nursing. 3. Life Planning. 4. Person-centred care in intellectual disabilities nursing. 5. The legal and ethical implications of care planning and delivery for intellectual disability nursing. 6. Risk and care planning and delivery process in intellectual disability nursing. Part 2. 7. Care planning and delivery in forensic settings for people with intellectual disabilities. 8. Care planning in mental health settings. 9. Care planning in palliative care for people with intellectual disabilities. 10. The planning and delivery of nursing care in community nursing services. 11. Care Planning in residential settings. 12. Care planning for good health in intellectual disabilities. 13. Care planning and delivery for people with profound intellectual disabilities and complex needs.

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Book SynopsisProblem Based Learning in Health and Social Care offers a practical insight into the opportunities, benefits and challenges of using problem based learning (PBL) in health and social care education and also student directed learning (SDL) as a learning and teaching tool.Table of ContentsList of Contributors vii 1 Starting out: a guide to using this book and its development 1Lyn Westcott Part 1 General Principles of Using Problem-Based Learning 7 2 Exploring the foundations for problem-based learning 9Ruth Matheson and Bernhard Haas 3 Readiness for problem-based learning 25Juan Delport and Steven W. Whitcombe 4 Developing problem-based learning curricula 35Lyn Westcott, Alison Seymour and Sara Roberts 5 Becoming a problem-based learning facilitator 51Gwilym Wyn Roberts 6 Managing group dynamics and developing team working in problem-based learning 67Alison Seymour 7 Assessing problem-based learning curricula 79Sue Pengelly Part 2 The Theoretical Interface with Problem-Based Learning 97 8 Reflection and the problem-based learning curriculum 99Gail Boniface 9 A reflexive model for problem-based learning 115Steven W. Whitcombe and Teena J. Clouston 10 Promoting creative thinking and innovative practice through the use of problem-based learning 125Jill Riley and Ruth Matheson 11 Problem-based learning and the development of capital 139Jill Riley and Steven W. Whitcombe 12 An evolving vision for learning in health-care education 147Andrew Machon and Gwilym Wyn Roberts Part 3 The Learner in Problem-Based Learning 159 13 The student experience 161Liz Galle and Sandra Marshman 14 Becoming lifelong learners in health and social care 173Pam Stead, Gareth Morgan and Sally Scott-Roberts 15 Becoming a self-directed learner 185Susan Delport and Ruth Squire Part 4 Final Thoughts 201 16 Interweaving the strands of thinking in problem-based learning 203Teena J. Clouston Index 215

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Book SynopsisPROMOTING PARTNERSHIP FOR HEALTH This book forms part of a series entitled Promoting Partnership for Health publishedin association with the UK Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education (CAIPE). The series explores partnership for health from policy, practice and educational perspectives.Table of ContentsList of Boxes, Figures and Tables. The Authors. Series Foreword. Acknowledgements. Glossary. Introduction. 1. Interprofessional teamwork – the basics. 2. Current developments affecting interprofessional teamwork. 3. Interprofessional teamwork: key concepts and issues. 4. A conceptual framework for interprofessional teamwork. 5. Using theory to better understand interprofessional teamwork. 6. Interprofessional teamwork interventions. 7. Evaluating interprofessional teamwork. 8. Synthesising studies of interprofessional teamwork. 9. Ways forward. References. Appendices. Index.

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Book SynopsisGathering among the best European specialists of welfare state comparisons, this book organises comprehensive and up to date information on European welfare state reforms in an analytical framework which allows a new approach to social policy changes.Trade Review"The issue is hugely important, and anyone interested in it would be well-advised to read this very valuable book." (Transfer, March 2009) "Clearly this is an excellent and extensive book.... It brings together a number of well-known experts for the different policy fields which makes it the first to investigate the Bismarckian world of welfare in such great detail and with such interesting conclusions about its capacity for change." (Social Policy, January 2008)Table of Contents1. Editorial Introduction: From ‘a Frozen Landscape’ to Structural Reforms: The Sequential Transformation of Bismarckian Welfare Systems (Bruno Palier and Claude Martin). 2. When Past Reforms Open New Opportunities: Comparing Old-age Insurance Reforms in Bismarckian Welfare Systems (Giuliano Bonoli and Bruno Palier). 3. Towards Neo-Bismarckian Health Care States? Comparing Health Insurance Reforms in Bismarckian Welfare Systems (Patrick Hassenteufel and Bruno Palier). 4. Continental Drift: On Unemployment Policy Change in Bismarckian Welfare States (Daniel Clegg). 5. From Subsidiarity to ‘Free Choice’: Child- and Elder-care Policy Reforms in France, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands (Nathalie Morel). 6. Activation as a Common Framework for Social Policies towards Lone Parents (Trudie Knijn, Claude Martin and Jane Millar). 7. Long-term Care Policies in Italy, Austria and France: Variations in Cash-for-Care Schemes (Barbara Da Roit, Blanche Le Bihan and August Österle). 8. Family Policies in Germany and France: The Role of Enterprises and Social Partners (Ute Klammer and Marie-Thérèse Letablier). Index.

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Book Synopsis This book helps mental health clinicians anticipate, recognize, and respond to elder abuse. As the baby boom generation reaches retirement age, mental health clinicians will increasingly be working with older adults, some of whom will have experienced abuse or are at risk of experiencing abuse. This book will help clinicians recognize and respond appropriately should they encounter such clients in their practice. This concise, reader-friendly book quickly familiarizes readers with essential aspects of the field of elder abuse, including risk and protective factors, the important roles played by of cognition and capacity, clinicians’ legal and ethical obligations to report suspected or known elder abuse, and the purpose and function of adult protective services. Readers will learn strategies to communicate effectively with older adults, screen for cognitive deficits, detect possible abuse, and work in tandem with adult protective services. CurrTable of ContentsSeries Foreword Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview of Elder Abuse Chapter 2: Risk and Protective Factors Chapter 3: Cognitive Capacity and Communication Challenges Chapter 4: Detection and Legal Obligations to Report Chapter 5: Working With the Adult Protective Services System Chapter 6: Elder Abuse Interventions Afterword Appendix: Online Resources References Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisThe juvenile justice system navigates a high degree of variation in youthful offenders. While professionals with insights about reform and adolescent development consider the risks, the needs, and the patterns of delinquency of youth, too little attention is paid to the responses and practicalities of a system that is both complex and limited in its resources.In his essential book, Taking Juvenile Justice Seriously, Christopher Sullivan systematically analyzes key facets of justice-involved youth populations and parses cases to better understand core developmental influences that affect delinquency. He takes a comprehensive look at aspects of the life-course affected by juvenile justice as well as at the juvenile justice system's operations and its multifaceted mission of delivering both treatment and sanctions to a varied population of youths. Taking Juvenile Justice Seriously first provides an overview of the youth who encounter the system, then describes its present operations and

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Book SynopsisThe juvenile justice system navigates a high degree of variation in youthful offenders. While professionals with insights about reform and adolescent development consider the risks, the needs, and the patterns of delinquency of youth, too little attention is paid to the responses and practicalities of a system that is both complex and limited in its resources.In his essential book, Taking Juvenile Justice Seriously, Christopher Sullivan systematically analyzes key facets of justice-involved youth populations and parses cases to better understand core developmental influences that affect delinquency. He takes a comprehensive look at aspects of the life-course affected by juvenile justice as well as at the juvenile justice system's operations and its multifaceted mission of delivering both treatment and sanctions to a varied population of youths. Taking Juvenile Justice Seriously first provides an overview of the youth who encounter the system, then describes its present operations and

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Book SynopsisJust Care is Akemi Nishida's thoughtful examination of care injustice and social justice enabled through care. The current neoliberal political economy has turned care into a business opportunity for the healthcare industrial complex and a mechanism of social oppression and control. Nishida analyzes the challenges people negotiate whether they are situated as caregivers, receivers, or both. Also illuminated is how people with disabilities come together to assemble community care collectives and bed activism (resistance and visions emerging from the space of bed) to reimagine care as a key element for social change. The structure of care, Nishida writes, is deeply embedded in and embodies the cruel social orderbased on disability, race, gender, migration status, and wealththat determines who survives or deteriorates. Simultaneously, many marginalized communities treat care as the foundation of activism. Using interviews, focus groups, and participant observation with care workers and pTrade Review"Nishida offers an innovative and eloquent examination of the multiplicity of care—care as a tool of surveillance and oppression, a commodity, a relational act that builds embodied knowledge and connection, and a revolutionary act that fundamentally challenges the violent degradation of certain bodies.... Just Care is profound in its criticism of the neoliberal U.S. care industrial complex and in its commitment to envisioning just systems of care that respect crip wisdom and value all lives. It offers a deeply personal, political, and poignant contribution to care studies.... Just Care is an important work that will fundamentally reshape conversations about care in American society. It is highly relevant to scholars and activists in the fields of disability studies, care, welfare, health, justice, feminist scholarship, and critical race analysis."—Social Forces"Nishida asks a number of urgent questions, including how our society and the regimes of governance operating in it determine whose needs are sacred and whose lives are disposable, whose needs are met and whose are ignored, and how caretaking happens (and does not happen) in our society.... Nishida’s book captures that dilemma between oppressive care assemblages and liberatory care collectives, access to care and control by the agencies of care, exploitation of care workers alongside their vital work, the capacity for self-definition and resistance in the context of a decapacitating society—the tension between and agency and constraint—in every situation she describes."—Wordgathering"Just Care is the kind of book that you want to return to, with content that is critically important for advancing our collective thinking around care. But there’s also the book itself. Nishida utilizes each of her 264 pages and five chapters as representative of her disability justice praxis. The care put into the text models the 'just care' that the book itself discusses."—Gender and Society"[A] nuanced analysis of the circulation of care within the U.S. neoliberal, neocolonial healthcare assemblage.... For teachers of critical qualitative research, disability or healthcare, or intersectional analyses, Just Care will be an excellent aid. For scholars and activists of various social movements for collective liberation, Just Care will nuance and oxygenate your analyses, commitments, and imagination."—Psychology of Women Quarterly"Overall, this must-read disability justice text is transformative and ingenious. It has so much to offer the existing bodies of knowledge within healthcare, healthcare policy, disability studies, activist spaces, and conceptualizations of disability and care. Just Care positions care as a dialectical tool of social control, oppression, resistance, and liberation. Nishida’s indispensable interdisciplinary background in disability studies...and feminist studies...and her positionality as a disabled woman of color enrich her analysis of care which illustrates shared experiences of exploitation and oppression in care practice and extends visions of radically liberated futures for all."—Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies

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Book SynopsisJust Care is Akemi Nishida’s thoughtful examination of care injustice and social justice enabled through care. The current neoliberal political economy has turned care into a business opportunity for the healthcare industrial complex and a mechanism of social oppression and control. Nishida analyzes the challenges people negotiate whether they are situated as caregivers, receivers, or both. Also illuminated is how people with disabilities come together to assemble community care collectives and bed activism (resistance and visions emerging from the space of bed) to reimagine care as a key element for social change. The structure of care, Nishida writes, is deeply embedded in and embodies the cruel social order—based on disability, race, gender, migration status, and wealth—that determines who survives or deteriorates. Simultaneously, many marginalized communities treat care as the foundation of activism. Using interviews, focus groups, and participanTrade Review"Nishida offers an innovative and eloquent examination of the multiplicity of care—care as a tool of surveillance and oppression, a commodity, a relational act that builds embodied knowledge and connection, and a revolutionary act that fundamentally challenges the violent degradation of certain bodies.... Just Care is profound in its criticism of the neoliberal U.S. care industrial complex and in its commitment to envisioning just systems of care that respect crip wisdom and value all lives. It offers a deeply personal, political, and poignant contribution to care studies.... Just Care is an important work that will fundamentally reshape conversations about care in American society. It is highly relevant to scholars and activists in the fields of disability studies, care, welfare, health, justice, feminist scholarship, and critical race analysis."—Social Forces"Nishida asks a number of urgent questions, including how our society and the regimes of governance operating in it determine whose needs are sacred and whose lives are disposable, whose needs are met and whose are ignored, and how caretaking happens (and does not happen) in our society.... Nishida’s book captures that dilemma between oppressive care assemblages and liberatory care collectives, access to care and control by the agencies of care, exploitation of care workers alongside their vital work, the capacity for self-definition and resistance in the context of a decapacitating society—the tension between and agency and constraint—in every situation she describes."—Wordgathering"Just Care is the kind of book that you want to return to, with content that is critically important for advancing our collective thinking around care. But there’s also the book itself. Nishida utilizes each of her 264 pages and five chapters as representative of her disability justice praxis. The care put into the text models the 'just care' that the book itself discusses."—Gender and Society"[A] nuanced analysis of the circulation of care within the U.S. neoliberal, neocolonial healthcare assemblage.... For teachers of critical qualitative research, disability or healthcare, or intersectional analyses, Just Care will be an excellent aid. For scholars and activists of various social movements for collective liberation, Just Care will nuance and oxygenate your analyses, commitments, and imagination."—Psychology of Women Quarterly"Overall, this must-read disability justice text is transformative and ingenious. It has so much to offer the existing bodies of knowledge within healthcare, healthcare policy, disability studies, activist spaces, and conceptualizations of disability and care. Just Care positions care as a dialectical tool of social control, oppression, resistance, and liberation. Nishida’s indispensable interdisciplinary background in disability studies...and feminist studies...and her positionality as a disabled woman of color enrich her analysis of care which illustrates shared experiences of exploitation and oppression in care practice and extends visions of radically liberated futures for all."—Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies

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Book SynopsisWith the passing of Zane L. Miller in 2016, academia lost a renowned scholar and one of the key founders of new urban history—a branch of the discipline that placed urban life at the center of American history and treated the city as an arena for civic and political action. He was a devoted, tireless mentor who published or fostered dozens of books and articles on urban history. He also co-founded Temple University Press’ foundational series Urban Life, Landscape, and Policy.Bringing the Civic Back In provides a critical overview, appreciation, and extension of Miller’s work as scholar, editor, mentor, colleague, and citizen. Included are three excerpts from Miller’s final, unfinished work, in which he presented cities as the source of a civic nationalism he viewed as fundamental to the development of American democracy. The editors—along with contributors Robert B. Fairbanks and Charles Lester—reflect on the life and work of Trade Review"[This book] should be appreciated both for the soundness of the scholarship that went into the pieces and as an affectionate and thoughtful memorial to the man who inspired them. Whether cities today can help us rekindle the spirit of 'civic nationalism' that were instrumental in creating remains to be seen. But these authors clearly hope they will, an aspiration they inherited from their mentor and colleague."—Journal of Urban Affairs

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