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Product Description: Two-thirds of UK government spending now goes to the welfare state, and where the money is spentâhealthcare, education, pensions, benefitsâis the center of political and public debate. Much of that debate is dominated by the myth that the population is divided into those who benefit from the welfare state and those who pay into it...read more
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9781447320036 | Policy Pr, February 15, 2015, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Two-thirds of UK government spending now goes to the welfare state, and where the money is spentâhealthcare, education, pensions, benefitsâis the center of political and public debate.
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9781505670561 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 26, 2014, cover price $6.75 | About this edition: Budgeting may not necessarily be all about curbing all spending powers.
Product Description: Ideas drawn from family and systemic therapy form the basis of many interventions in mental health and childcare. This brief introduction offers an ideal starting-point for non specialists and new students keen to develop their skills...read more
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9780230224445 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 22, 2013, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Ideas drawn from family and systemic therapy form the basis of many interventions in mental health and childcare.
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9781861349583 | Policy Pr, October 24, 2007, cover price $99.00
Product Description: Social policy is now central to political debate in Britain. This collection of essays by a distinguished panel of leading social policy academics asks what has been achieved by efforts to improve services and reduce poverty, and what is needed to deliver more effective and popular services to all and increase social justice...read more
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9781861349576 | Policy Pr, October 24, 2007, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Social policy is now central to political debate in Britain.
Since the late 1970s, Britain has become a more unequal society. This book analyzes the dramatic widening of the income distribution, the growth of poverty, and the factors that have driven them. It examines how government spending and the taxes that pay for it affect people's incomes, why they take the forms they do, what we think of them, how things have changed since New Labour came to power in 1997, and the future pressures that any government will face as the population ages.
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9780199276639 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, March 3, 2005, cover price $77.00 | About this edition: Since the late 1970s, Britain has become a more unequal society.
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9780199276646 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, March 3, 2005, cover price $56.00
Product Description: This major new book provides, for the first time, a detailed evaluation of policies on poverty and social exclusion since 1997, and their effects. Bringing together leading experts in the field, it considers the challenges the government has faced, the policies chosen and the targets set in order to assess results...read more
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9781861345783 | Policy Pr, January 1, 2005, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: This major new book provides, for the first time, a detailed evaluation of policies on poverty and social exclusion since 1997, and their effects.
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9781861345776 | Policy Pr, January 1, 2005, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: This major new book provides, for the first time, a detailed evaluation of policies on poverty and social exclusion since 1997, and their effects.
Product Description: John Byng-Hall is a distinguished, pioneering British family therapist, whose publications and presentations have established him internationally. An associate of John Bowlby (who is credited with the beginnings of family therapy) at the Tavistock Clinic London , he has integrated Bowlby's attachment theories with his own ideas of family scripts and myths into family systemic therapy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781861562630 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, August 1, 2002, cover price $75.95 | About this edition: John Byng-Hall is a distinguished, pioneering British family therapist, whose publications and presentations have established him internationally.
Product Description: This book explores the issue of social exclusion. It asks three main questions: How can social exclusion be measured? What are its main determinants or influences? And what policies can reduce social exclusion? The authors aim to consider how a focus on social exclusion may alter the policy questions that are most relevant by fostering debate in government, research, and academic circles...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780199251070 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 22, 2002, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: This book explores the issue of social exclusion.
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9780199251940 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, August 22, 2002, cover price $61.00 | About this edition: This book explores the issue of social exclusion.
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9781853109638 | Swan Hill Pr, January 1, 2000, cover price $28.95
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9780199240784 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, October 5, 2000, cover price $245.00
Product Description: Did the Conservatives dismember the welfare state or reform it? Have the changes of the past twenty years made any difference? And if so, for whom? This second edition of a celebrated reference text reviews the changing fate of British social policy in the years since 1974...read more
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9780198775911 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 1, 1998, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Did the Conservatives dismember the welfare state or reform it?
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9780198775904 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 1, 1998, cover price $74.00
Product Description: Starting in the late 1970s and gathering pace in the 1980s, the gaps between rich and poor in the United Kingdom have widened. This book contains results from a major research program that investigated the varied factors that led to this major social and economic change...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780521556989 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 1, 1996, cover price $54.99 | About this edition: Starting in the late 1970s and gathering pace in the 1980s, the gaps between rich and poor in the United Kingdom have widened.
Product Description: Starting in the late 1970s and gathering pace in the 1980s, the gaps between rich and poor in the United Kingdom have widened. This book contains results from a major research program that investigated the varied factors that led to this major social and economic change...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780521553261 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 1, 1996, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: Starting in the late 1970s and gathering pace in the 1980s, the gaps between rich and poor in the United Kingdom have widened.
Product Description: This is a study based on a recent work by the Welfare State Programme at the London School of Economics. It examines the impact of the welfare state as a means of redistributing incomes, not only between individuals' own life cycles, but between generations...read more
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9780133428414 | Harvester Wheatsheaf, October 1, 1995, cover price $36.00 | About this edition: This is a study based on a recent work by the Welfare State Programme at the London School of Economics.
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9780198288060 | Clarendon Pr, July 14, 1994, cover price $155.00
Product Description: This book examines the system of housing finance and the way in which governments affect it by analysing topics such as: subsidies to council housing and housing associations; housing benefit for those with low incomes; tax concessions for owner occupiers; and other subsidies like the right to buy, or improvement grants...read more
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9780198773030 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, February 11, 1993), cover price $24.00 | also contains Ruskin's Educational Ideals | About this edition: This book examines the system of housing finance and the way in which governments affect it by analysing topics such as: subsidies to council housing and housing associations; housing benefit for those with low incomes; tax concessions for owner occupiers; and other subsidies like the right to buy, or improvement grants.
Product Description: A major reference work, this book investigates what has happened to the welfare state in Britain since 1974. It examines the differences and similarities in trends during the Labour administration of 1974-79 and the Conservative administration of 1979-86, providing detailed analyses of trends in education, health, housing, personal social services, and social security...read more
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9780198287636 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, January 1, 1992), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: A major reference work, this book investigates what has happened to the welfare state in Britain since 1974.
Product Description: This book examines the system of housing finance and the way in which governments affect it by analysing topics such as: subsidies to council housing and housing associations; housing benefit for those with low incomes; tax concessions for owner occupiers; and other subsidies like the right to buy, or improvement grants...read more
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9780198773047 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 1, 1991, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: This book examines the system of housing finance and the way in which governments affect it by analysing topics such as: subsidies to council housing and housing associations; housing benefit for those with low incomes; tax concessions for owner occupiers; and other subsidies like the right to buy, or improvement grants.
Product Description: The term "social security" has a very different meaning in underdeveloped countries -- whose populations live in great insecurity -- and is best understood as poverty alleviation. This book attempts to define social security in the Third World and to examine what sort of programs are most suitable for developing countries...read more
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9780198233008 | Clarendon Pr, April 1, 1991, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: The term "social security" has a very different meaning in underdeveloped countries -- whose populations live in great insecurity -- and is best understood as poverty alleviation.
Product Description: Likely to become a major reference work, this book investigates what has happened to the welfare state in Britain since 1974. It examines particularly the differences and similarities in trends during the Labour administration of 1974-79 and the Conservative administration of 1979-86, providing detailed analyses of trends in education, health, housing, personal social services, and social security...read more
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9780198233053 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 31, 1991, cover price $89.00 | About this edition: Likely to become a major reference work, this book investigates what has happened to the welfare state in Britain since 1974.
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