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  • Changing Directions of the British Welfare State

    Edited by Gideon Calder, Jeremy Gass, Kirsten Merrill-Glover ...
    This is a unique and timely survey of the evolving priorities of the British welfare state since its inception in the late 1940s, with an emphasis on how current and future aims and features of welfare provision compare with the ambitions of its original architects. In this book, 15 commentators, including prominent academic experts in the field, and also members of think tanks, charities and ... Read more

    $29.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rorty

    by Gideon Calder ...
    Series series GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
    Popular Great Philosopher's Series.An accessible overview of the work of one of our most influential living philosophers, as part of the popular Great Philosophers series. Richard Rorty is often cited as the most prominent philosophical defender of postmodernism. Best known for his unusually readable books and articles on philosophy - most notably Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979) and ... Read more

    Was $3.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • Ethics, Economy and Social Science

    Dialogues with Andrew Sayer

    Edited by Balihar Sanghera, Gideon Calder ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    This book is a collection of critical engagements with Andrew Sayer, one of the foremost postdisciplinary thinkers of our times, with responses from Sayer himself.Sayer’s ground-breaking contributions to the fields of geography, political economy and social theory have reshaped the terms of engagement with issues and debates running from the methodology of social science through to the environment ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • How Inequality Runs in Families

    Unfair Advantage and the Limits of Social Mobility

    by Gideon Calder ...
    Most people agree that every child deserves an equal chance to flourish. Most also value family life. Yet the family plays a surprisingly crucial part in maintaining inequality from one generation to the next. The children of disadvantaged parents typically achieve less and die younger. Early in their school careers, even the most able among them fall behind their better-off peers. They are then 8 ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Liberalism and Social Justice

    International Perspectives

    by Gideon Calder, Edward Garrett ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2000: Bringing oes liberalism have either the theoretical capacity or the political durability to provide for social justice, particularly given the challenges of the new millennium? From a diverse array of disciplinary, cultural and critical perspectives, the contributors to this timely and incisive collection of essays cover ground ranging from the philosophical ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The Triple Bind of Single-Parent Families

    Resources, Employment and Policies to Improve Wellbeing

    by Natascha Van Mechelen, Anne Grege Toge, Sabine Hubgen, Malin Bergstrom, Viveca Ostberg, Marina Fernandez Salgado, Juho Härkönen, Janet Gornick, Gideon Calder, Diego Collado, Bea Cantillon0, Guðný Björk Eydal1, Ann Morissens2, Yekaterina Chzhen3, Antonia Keung4, Jonathan Bradshaw5, Joakim Palme6, Rense Nieuwenhuis7, Karen Modesta Olsen9, Ingrid Esser0, Nicklas Korsell1, Ann-Zofie Duvander2, Wim Van Lancker3, Young Hwan-Byun4, Ive Marx5, Jeroen Horemans6, Hannah Zagel7, Sara Brolin Laftman8, Emma Fransson9, Jaap Dronkers0, Marloes de Lange1, Susan Harkness2, Morag C. Treanor3, Eva Sierminska4 ...
    Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Single parents face a triple bind of inadequate resources, employment, and policies, which in combination further complicate their lives.This book - multi-disciplinary and comparative in design - shows evidence from over 40 countries, along with detailed case studies of Sweden, Iceland, Scotland, and the UK. It covers aspects of well-being that include ... Read more

    $59.39 USD

  • How Groups Matter

    Challenges of Toleration in Pluralistic Societies

    Edited by Gideon Calder, Magali Bessone, Federico Zuolo ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    When groups feature in political philosophy, it is usually in one of three contexts: the redressing of past or current injustices suffered by ethnic or cultural minorities; the nature and scope of group rights; and questions around how institutions are supposed to treat a certain specific identity/cultural/ethnic group. What is missing from these debates is a comprehensive analysis of groups as ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Childhood and Children

    Edited by Anca Gheaus, Gideon Calder, Jurgen De Wispelaere ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
    Childhood looms large in our understanding of human life, as a phase through which all adults have passed. Childhood is foundational to the development of selfhood, the formation of interests, values and skills and to the lifespan as a whole. Understanding what it is like to be a child, and what differences childhood makes, are thus essential for any broader understanding of the human condition. ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Climate Change and Liberal Priorities

    Edited by Gideon Calder, Catriona McKinnon ...
    Can, and should, liberalism make itself hospitable to a politics which does justice to climate change? To what extent are the values, methods, and assumptions of liberalism adaptable to the challenges raised? Liberal thinking – broadly construed – may dominate the Academy and the political landscape. Are the environmental priorities that are thrown into relief by climate change a threat to it, or ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Diversity in Europe

    Dilemnas of differential treatment in theory and practice

    Edited by Gideon Calder, Emanuela Ceva ...
    Series series Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies
    From bans on religious symbols in public spaces, to the provision of abortion by doctors, recent cases across Europe have highlighted acute dilemmas about how best to respond to the claims of individuals or groups feeling that their values or beliefs are not treated fairly by the law.Diversity in Europe uses the resources of political theory alongside comparative analysis of contemporary practices ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • Human Rights: Moral or Political?

    Edited by Adam Etinson ...
    Over the past decade or so, philosophical speculation about human rights has tended to fall into two streams. On the one hand, there are "Orthodox" theorists, who think of human rights as natural rights: moral rights that we have simply in virtue of being human. On the other hand, there are "Political" theorists, who think of human rights as rights that play a distinctive role, or set of roles, in ... Read more

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  • Housing and Social Policy

    Contemporary Themes and Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Peter Somerville, Nigel Sprigings ...
    Series series Housing and Society Series
    This topical book transforms the analysis of housing problems into a lively, interesting and contentious subject of social scientific study, addressing themes of residential experience, inclusion/empowerment, sustainability and professionalism/managerialism, which lie at the heart of the housing and social policy debate. Each chapter considers a specific social category - such as class, gender, or ... Read more

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