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  • Understanding Neighbourhood Dynamics

    New Insights for Neighbourhood Effects Research

    Edited by Maarten van Ham, David Manley, Nick Bailey, Ludi Simpson, Duncan Maclennan ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This rare interdisciplinary combination of research into neighbourhood dynamics and effects attempts to unravel the complex relationship between disadvantaged neighbourhoods and the life outcomes of the residents who live therein. It seeks to overcome the notorious difficulties of establishing an empirical causal relationship between living in a disadvantaged area and the poorer health and well ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Neighbourhood Effects Research: New Perspectives

    Edited by Maarten van Ham, David Manley, Nick Bailey, Ludi Simpson, Duncan Maclennan ...
    Over the last 25 years a vast body of literature has been published on neighbourhood effects: the idea that living in more deprived neighbourhoods has a negative effect on residents’ life chances over and above the effect of their individual characteristics. The volume of work not only reflects academic and policy interest in this topic, but also the fact that we are still no closer to answering ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK

    Volume 2 - The Dimensions of Disadvantage

    by Jonathan Bradshaw, Mike Tomlinson, Christiana Pantazis, Simon Pemberton, Glen Bramley, David Manley, Lucy Prior, Eldin Fahmy, Lisa Wilson, Kirsten Besemer0, Filip Sosenko1, Suzanne Fitzpatrick2, Paddy Hillyard3, Marco Pomati4, Demi Patsios5, Joanna Mack6 ...
    Series series Studies in Poverty, Inequality and Social Exclusion
    How many people live in poverty in the UK, and how has this changed over recent decades? Are those in poverty more likely to suffer other forms of disadvantage or social exclusion? Is exclusion multi-dimensional, taking different forms for different groups or places?Based on the largest UK study of its kind ever commissioned, this fascinating book provides the most detailed national picture of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Neighbourhood Effects or Neighbourhood Based Problems?

    A Policy Context

    Edited by David Manley, Maarten van Ham, Nick Bailey, Ludi Simpson, Duncan Maclennan ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited volume critically examines the link between area based policies, neighbourhood based problems, and neighbourhood effects: the idea that living in disadvantaged neighbourhoods has a negative effect on residents’ life chances over and above the effect of their individual characteristics. Over the last few decades, Western governments have persistently pursued area based policies to fight ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Welfare Conditionality

    by Beth Watts, Suzanne Fitzpatrick ...
    Series series Key Ideas
    Welfare conditionality has become an idea of global significance in recent years. A ‘hot topic’ in North America, Australia, and across Europe, it has been linked to austerity politics, and the rise of foodbanks and destitution. In the Global South, where publicly funded welfare protection systems are often absent, conditional approaches have become a key tool employed by organisations pursuing ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Health Inequalities

    Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Katherine E. Smith, Clare Bambra, Sarah E. Hill ...
    Informed by a wealth of available research, between 1997 and 2010, the UK Labour government introduced a raft of policies to reduce health inequalities. Despite this, by most measures, the UK's health inequalities have continued to widen. This failure has prompted calls for new approaches to health inequalities research and some consensus that public health researchers ought to be more actively ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Social Advantage and Disadvantage

    Edited by Hartley Dean, Lucinda Platt ...
    Social advantage and disadvantage are potent catch-all terms. They have no established definition but, considered in relation to one another, they can embrace a wide variety of more specific concepts that address the ways in which human society causes, exacerbates or fails to prevent social divisions or injustices. This book captures the sense in which any conceptualisation of disadvantage is ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Canadian Social Policy, Fifth Edition

    Issues and Perspectives

    Edited by Anne Westhues, Brian Wharf ...
    Social policy shapes the daily lives of every Canadian citizen and should reflect the beliefs of a majority of Canadians on just approaches to the promotion of health, safety, and well-being. Too often, those on the front lines—social workers, nurses, and teachers—observe that policies do not work well for the most vulnerable groups in society. In the first part of this new edition of Canadian ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Cities, Economic Inequality and Justice

    Reflections and Alternative Perspectives

    by Edwin Buitelaar, Anet Weterings, Roderik Ponds ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Economics and Finance
    Increasing economic inequality in cities, and the spatial translation of that into more segregated neighbourhoods, is top of the political agenda in developed countries. While the overall living standards have increased in the last century, the focus has now shifted from poverty to economic differences, with a particular focus on the gap between the very poor and the (ultra-)rich.The authors ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Irish Social Policy

    A Critical Introduction

    by Fiona Dukelow, Mairéad Considine ...
    This 2nd edition of a highly respected textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to Irish social policy. It provides an accessible, critical overview taking account of significant changes over recent years.The book is organised across four key sections:1: Traces the emergence and development of Irish social policy from its origins to the present2: Situates the Irish case in the wider context of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Rural Poverty

    Marginalisation and Exclusion in Britain and the United States

    by Paul Milbourne ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Human Geography
    Moving beyond the highly visual forms of poverty characteristic of the city, Rural Poverty explores the nature of poverty in rural spaces in Britain and America. Setting out key features, it highlights the important processes that hide key components of rural poverty. The book seeks to challenge dominant assumptions about the spatialities of poverty and the nature of rural spaces in Britain and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of the Welfare State

    Edited by Bent Greve ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Forty-five contributions from renowned international specialists in the field provide readers with expert analysis of the core issues related to the welfare state, including regional depictions of welfare states around the globe. The second edition of the Routledge Handbook of the Welfare State combines essays on methodologies, core concepts and central policy areas to produce a comprehensive ... Read more

    $65.99 USD