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Happiness—Concept, Measurement and Promotion

This book defines happiness intuitively and explores several common conceptual mistakes with regard to happiness. It then ...

Human Rights in Child Protection

This open access book critically explores what child protection policy and professional practice would mean if practice was ...

Human and Organisational Factors Practices and Strategies for a Changing World

This book addresses several questions regarding the implementation of human and organisational factors (HOF) so that recent ...

Improving Interagency Collaboration, Innovation and Learning in Criminal Justice Systems Supporting Offender Rehabilitation

This book to improve collaboration between criminal justice and welfare services in order to help prepare offenders for ...

International Impacts on Social Policy : Short Histories in Global Perspective

This book consists of 39 short essays that exemplify how interactions between inter- and trans-national interdependencies ...

Liberal Democracy Prosperity through Freedom

This book aims to show which factors have been decisive in the rise of successful countries. Never before have so many people ...

Lived Nation as the History of Experiences and Emotions in Finland, 1800-2000

This Finland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as an empirical case in order to study the emergence, shaping and ...

Lone Parenthood in the Life Course

This volume provides a comprehensive portrait of lone parenthood at the beginning of the XXI century from a life course perspective. ...

Migration and Social Protection in Europe and Beyond (Volume 1) Comparing Access to Welfare Entitlements

This book in a series of three volumes provides an in-depth analysis of social protection policies that EU Member States ...

Migration to and from Welfare States Lived Experiences of the Welfare–Migration Nexus in a Globalised World

This book explores the role of family, public, market and third sector welfare provision for individual and households’ ...

Networks and Geographies of Global Social Policy Diffusion : Culture, Economy, and Colonial Legacies

This book analyses the global diffusion of social policy as a process driven by multiplex ties between countries in global ...

New Frontiers in Social Innovation Research

Interest in social innovation continues to rise, from governments setting up social innovation 'labs' to large corporations ...

Nostalgia and Hope: Intersections between Politics of Culture, Welfare, and Migration in Europe

This book shows how the politics of migration affect community building in the 21st century, drawing on both retrogressive ...

One Hundred Years of Social Protection The Changing Social Question in Brazil, India, China, and South Africa

As the first in-depth study of the ideational foundations of social protection policies and programmes in these four countries, ...

Otto Neurath Economic Writings Selections 1904–1945

This book makes available for the first time in English a substantial part of Otto Neurath's economic writings. The essays ...

Outsourcing Legal Aid in the Nordic Welfare States

This edited collection provides a comprehensive analysis of the differences and similarities between civil legal aid schemes ...

Pension Systems

Recently, policy debate and comparative research on old-age pensions have focused on the financial sustainability of pension ...

Placing the Public in Public Health in Post-War Britain, 1948–2012

This book explores the question of who or what ‘the public’ is within ‘public health’ in post-war Britain. Drawing ...

Poverty and Equity

This text addresses the understanding and alleviation of poverty, inequality, and inequity using a unique and broad mix of ...

Power, Freedom, and Voting

Power, Freedom, and Voting is an interdisciplinary book that presents a comprehensive insight into current research by economists, ...

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