Políticas públicas y sociales en la encrucijada
Author : Chaime Marcuello Servós
Publisher :
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 24,25 MB
Release : 2013
Category :
ISBN : 9788492522750
Handbook on Gender and Social Policy
Author : Sheila Shaver
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 12,41 MB
Release : 2018-09-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1785367161
Book Description
Providing a state of the art overview, this comprehensive Handbook is an essential introduction to the subject of Gender and Social Policy. Bringing together original contributions and research from leading researchers it covers the theoretical perspectives of the field, the central policy terrain of gender inequalities of income, employment and care, and family policy. Examining gender and social policy at both the regional and national level, the Handbook is an excellent resource for advanced students and scholars of sociology, political science, women’s studies, policy studies as well as practitioners seeking to understand how gender shapes the contours of social policy and politics.
Towards a Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities between Europe and Latin America
Author : Pedro López-Roldán
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 46,39 MB
Release : 2020-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3030484424
Book Description
This open access volume identifies the common and specific aspects of social mechanisms that generate inequalities, through comparative analyses of different dimensions in which inequalities are expressed. It includes studies on social inequalities in 5 European and 5 Latin American countries, along 11 thematic axes: inequalities in the labour market and labour trajectories; asymmetries in the relationship between training and employment; inequalities in work and family life; educational inequalities; geographical and social inequalities: ethnicity and language; social inequalities, migration and space; uncertainty, strategies, resources and capabilities; inequality of opportunity: intergenerational social mobility; social policies; gender inequalities; and research methodology. This volume is the result of a large collaborative project on social inequality funded by the European Commission: the International Network for Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities. Taking into account diverse perspectives and approximations, the collaborators have created a general analytical framework as a model of analysis of social inequalities. The various contributions in this volume help readers gain a global outlook and help reflect on social inequalities in a comparative perspective. This volume addresses social science graduate and postgraduate students, researchers, social policy makers, as well as a broader academic audience interested in social inequality.
Research Handbook on Leave Policy
Author : Ivana Dobrotić
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 24,89 MB
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1800372213
Book Description
Featuring contributions from leading international scholars of social policy, this dynamic Research Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of conceptual and methodological developments in leave policy research, as well as state-of-the-art findings on leave policy determinants and outcomes globally. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.
Quality of Life in Communities of Latin Countries
Author : Graciela Tonon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 31,93 MB
Release : 2017-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3319531832
Book Description
This book presents a reconfiguration of the concepts of community in Latin countries as well as the community quality of life and well-being of different groups: children, young people, older adults, migrants. The traditional concept of community has changed together with the way people participate in community spaces. Community nowadays is more than a geographic concentration; it is related to social support, inter-subjectivity, participation, consensus, common beliefs, joint effort aiming at a major objective, and intense and extensive relationships. This volume presents unique experiences about culture, social development, health, water, armed conflicts, the digital media, and sports within communities, written by authors from Latin countries. This volume is a valuable resource for researchers, students, and policy makers in quality of life studies.
Policy Analysis in Spain
Author : Laura Chaqués-Bonafont
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 44,45 MB
Release : 2022-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1447353765
Book Description
This book is the first systematic study of policy analysis activities in Spain. It provides a comprehensive overview of how policy actors, including politicians, think tanks, researchers, interest groups and experts, generate information for the policy-making process. The book explores how executive and legislative actors participate in the production of policy analysis and how all actors elaborate and disseminate information on policy analysis. Contributors consider the ways different policy actors are involved in the production of data and information about policy problems, the resources used to produce policy analysis and the type of analysis produced over time in different policy areas.
Latin American Social Pedagogy: relaying concepts, values and methods between Europe and the Americas?
Author : Xavier Ucar
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 40,42 MB
Release : 2015-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 3945021286
Book Description
Gender and the Sustainable Development Goals
Author : Astrid Skjerven
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 26,82 MB
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1000648478
Book Description
This book sheds light on the important and mostly neglected role that gender plays in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals, doing so by investigating three key problem areas: empowerment, education, and infrastructure. Starting with a theoretical and methodological framework, this edited collection contains 12 chapters from scholars and researchers from around the world. The book includes numerous case studies discussing the current status of gender equality relating to the SDGs. It reinforces the significance of gender for sustainable and just development, highlighting how women play a major role in work organization, disaster management, income, household maintenance, and mediation of knowledge. "Women" as a classification encompasses much diversity with many intersecting axes of difference; this book focuses on the excluded and disadvantaged majority social group, without imposing homogeneity on that categorization. Many chapters focus on critical situations occurring in the Global South, where these issues are highly prominent, and importantly, these contributions are written by local scholars. Finally, the volume provides pathways for basic and professional gender responsive education and innovation in the field. The book will generate important discussions in interdisciplinary research and higher education settings focusing on sustainable development, gender, equality, human rights, and education.
Handbook on Society and Social Policy
Author : Nicholas Ellison
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 40,19 MB
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1788113527
Book Description
This comprehensive Handbook provides a unique overview of the key issues and challenges facing society and social policy in the twenty-first century, discussing how welfare is conceptualised, organised and delivered in contemporary global society. Chapters engage with specific areas of social policy as well as with the social divisions and institutional infrastructures that underpin them. The Handbook also considers how social policy should respond to the challenges posed by austerity, human migration and the climate crisis.
Made-to-Measure Future(s) for Democracy?
Author : Julen Zabalo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 21,80 MB
Release : 2022-11-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3031086082
Book Description
This open access volume analyses the development of democracy at different levels of governance (from local to global). The Basque search for an institutional and democratic model that adapts to its social needs and solves its problems offers an interesting perspective for analyzing the way in which democracy is seeking new forms of materialization from the local to the global. The volume is divided into four parts. The chapters in Part I analyze the tensions between the neoliberal vision of democracy and the voices contesting it, with projections at different levels of government. The chapters in Part II focus on the emerging framework and scales of Western democracy. The chapters in Part III present new forms of citizen participation, paying special - though not exclusive - attention to new practical strategies for Basque society. The volume concludes with a block of chapters on the relevance of reviewing the methodological and epistemological frameworks from which knowledge about democracy and mechanisms of citizen participation is generated (Part IV). By delving deeper into the idea and practice of democratic governance, this volume will be of interest to researchers and students from all disciplines of politics, international relations, sociology and law.
