Elite Mobilities. by Birtchnell, Thomas

Table of Contents: “…9 Visible-invisible: the social semiotics of labour in luxury tourism10 'This is not me': conspicuous consumption and the travel aspirations of the European middle classes; 11 Tracing the super-rich and their mobilities in a Scandinavian welfare state; 12 The super-rich and offshore worlds; 13 Epilogue: the bodies, spaces and tempo of elite formations; 14 Postscript: elite mobilities and critique; Index.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

The paradox of openness : transparency and participation in nordic cultures of consensus

Table of Contents: “…6 The Nordic Ideal: Openness and Populism According to the Finns Party7 The Procedural Openness of Nordic Welfare State Restructuring; 8 Open Skies, Open Minds? …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Cultural conversions : unexpected consequences of Christian missionary encounters in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia

Table of Contents: “…Berkwitz -- The Port Said orphan scandal of 1933: colonialism, Islamism, and the Egyptian welfare state / Beth Baron -- Robert Moffat and the invention of Christianity in South Africa / Paul S. …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Politics, Gender, and Concepts : Theory and Methodology. by Goertz, Gary

Table of Contents: “…Interdependence GuidelineOperationalization Guideline; Conclusion; PART I GENDERING CONCEPTS; 3 Gendering democracy; 4 Gendering representation; 5 Gendering the welfare state; 6 Gendering governance; 7 Gendering development; PART II GENDER-SPECIFIC CONCEPTS; 8 Gender ideology: masculinism and feminalism; 9 Intersectionality; 10 Women's movements, feminism, and feminist movements; 11 State feminism; Appendix A website for additional.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Scandinavian crime fiction

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Contemporary Scandinavian Crime Fiction; Dirty Harry in the Swedish Welfare State; The Well-Adjusted Cops of the New Millennium: Neo-RomanticTendencies in the Swedish Police Procedural; Meaningless Icelanders: Icelandic Crime Fiction and Nationality; Digging into the Secrets of the Past: Rewriting History in the ModernScandinavian Police Procedural; The Place of Pessimism in Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander Series; Gender and Geography in Contemporary Scandinavian TelevisionCrime Fiction.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Middle East authoritarianisms : governance, contestation, and regime resilience in Syria and Iran

Table of Contents: “…Authoritarian governance in Syria and Iran : challenged, reconfiguring and resilient / Steven Heydemann and Reinoud Leenders -- The economics of authoritarian upgrading in Syria : liberalization and the reconfiguration of economic networks / Caroline Donati -- A martyrs' welfare state and its contradictions : regime resilience and limits through the lens of social policy in Iran / Kevan Harris -- The state management of religion in Syria : the end of "indirect rule"? …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

War, institutions, and social change in the Middle East

Table of Contents: “…War, institutions, and social change in the Middle East / Steven Heydeman -- Guns, gold and grain: war and food supply in the making of Transjordan / Tariq Tell -- The climax and crisis of the colonial welfare state in Syria and Lebanon during World War II / Elizabeth Thompson -- War, Keynesianism, and colonialism: explaining state-market relation in the postwar Middle East / Robert Vitalsim and Steven Heydemann -- Si vis stabilitatem, para bellum: state building, national security, and war preparation in Syria / Volker Perthes -- Changing boundaries and social crisis: Israel and the 1967 war / Joel S. …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Middle East authoritarianisms : governance, contestation, and regime resilience in Syria and Iran

Table of Contents: “…Authoritarian governance in Syria and Iran : challenged, reconfiguring and resilient / Steven Heydemann and Reinoud Leenders -- The economics of authoritarian upgrading in Syria : liberalization and the reconfiguration of economic networks / Caroline Donati -- A martyrs' welfare state and its contradictions : regime resilience and limits through the lens of social policy in Iran / Kevan Harris -- The state management of religion in Syria : the end of "indirect rule"? …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

A history shared and divided : East and West Germany since the 1970s

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: divided and connected: perspectives on German history since the 1970s / Frank Bösch -- Political transformations in East and West / Frank Bösch and Jens Gieseke -- Economic crises, structural change, and international entanglements / Ralf Ahrens and André Steiner -- Entangled ecologies: outlines of a green history of two or more Germanys / Frank Uekötter -- Social security, social inequality, and the welfare state in East and West Germany / Winfried Süß -- Rationalization, automation, and digitalization: transformations in work / Rüdiger Hachtmann -- The individualization of everyday life: consumption, domestic culture, and family structures / Christopher Neumaier and Andreas Ludwig -- Paths to digital modernity: computerization as social change / Jürgen Danyel and Annette Schuhmann -- Educational rivalries: the transition from a German-German contest to an international competition / Emmanuel Droit and Wilfried Rudloff -- Mobility and migration in divided Germany / Maren Möhring -- Sports and society in the rivalry between East and West / Jutta Braun -- Bridge over troubled water? …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Charity and mutual aid in Europe and North America since 1800

Table of Contents: “…Adams -- Supporting self-help : charity, mutuality, and reciprocity in nineteenth-century Britain / Daniel Weinbren -- Historical welfare economics in the nineteenth century : mutual aid and private insurance for burial, sickness, old age, widowhood, and unemployment in the Netherlands / Marco H.D. van Leeuwen -- Welfare-state formation in Scandinavia : the political significance of third-sector organisations for the emergence of sickness-insurance programs in Norway and Sweden / Peter Johansson -- Housing charities and the provision of social housing in Germany and the United States of America, Great Britain, and Canada in the nineteenth century / Thomas Adam "New alignments" : American voluntarism and the expansion of welfare in the 1920s / Andrew Morris -- Voluntary failure, the middle classes and the nationalisation of the British voluntary hospitals, 1900-1946 / Paul Bridgen.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

War, institutions, and social change in the Middle East

Table of Contents: “…War, institutions, and social change in the Middle East / Steven Heydeman -- Guns, gold and grain: war and food supply in the making of Transjordan / Tariq Tell -- The climax and crisis of the colonial welfare state in Syria and Lebanon during World War II / Elizabeth Thompson -- War, Keynesianism, and colonialism: explaining state-market relation in the postwar Middle East / Robert Vitalsim and Steven Heydemann -- Si vis stabilitatem, para bellum: state building, national security, and war preparation in Syria / Volker Perthes -- Changing boundaries and social crisis: Israel and the 1967 war / Joel S. …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

The return of the deficit : public finance in Belgium over 2000-2010

Table of Contents: “…Social Security. The Active Welfare State: A Stylised Retrospective; 7. Indebtedness. …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Scandinavian crime fiction

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Contemporary Scandinavian Crime Fiction; Dirty Harry in the Swedish Welfare State; The Well-Adjusted Cops of the New Millennium: Neo-RomanticTendencies in the Swedish Police Procedural; Meaningless Icelanders: Icelandic Crime Fiction and Nationality; Digging into the Secrets of the Past: Rewriting History in the ModernScandinavian Police Procedural; The Place of Pessimism in Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander Series; Gender and Geography in Contemporary Scandinavian TelevisionCrime Fiction.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Southeast Asian Perspectives on Power. by Chua, Liana

Table of Contents: “…Apparitions of sapiocracy: Vietnam's emergent welfare state and the restless dead of Thanh Ha; 12. …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

The political economy of border drawing : arranging legality in European labor migration policies by Paul, Regine

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Labor Migration Management: An Interdisciplinary Interpretive Policy Analysis -- Part I -- Border Drawing as a Framework for Migration Policy Analysis -- Chapter 1 -- Labor Migration Management as Meaningful Border Drawing -- Chapter 2 -- Border Drawing across Capitalist Economies, Welfare States, and Citizenship Regimes -- Chapter 3 -- Border Drawing in Context: Profiling Migration Histories and Policy Legacies for Comparative Analysis -- Part II -- Border Drawing in German, French, and British Labor Migration Policies -- Chapter 4 -- What Makes Migrant Workers "Legal"? …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

A History of Doughty's Hospital, Norwich, 1687-2009. by Goose, Nigel

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 8 Philanthropy in Victorian NorwichChapter 9 Doughty's Hospital and the rise of state regulation; Chapter 10 Finance and refurbishment; Chapter 11 Of masters and men; Part IV The age of modern welfare, 190890; Chapter 12 Philanthropy in the age of modern welfare; Chapter 13 Twentieth-century Norwich; Chapter 14 Doughty's and the welfare state; Chapter 15 Finance and development, 190890; Chapter 16 Staffing Doughty's; Chapter 17 Doughty's.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Lawyers and vampires : cultural histories of legal professions

Table of Contents: “…Contents; List of Contributors; 1 Introduction Towards a Cultural History of Lawyers; 2 Ritual Majesty and Mystery Collective Life and Culture among English Barristers Serjeants and Judges c 1500 c 1830; 3 A Dry and Revolting Study the Life and Labours of Antebellum Law Students; 4 Finland's Route of Professionalisation and Lawyer Officials; 5 Juridicalisation Professionalisation and the Occupational Culture of the Advocate in the Nineteenth and the early Twentieth centuries A Comparison of Germany Italy and Switzerland; 6 From 'Rechstaat' to 'Welfare State'…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

World Views and Worldly Wisdom. Visions et expériences du monde : Religion, ideology and politics, 1750-2000 · Religion, idéologie et politique, 1750-2000. by Maeyer, Jan De

Table of Contents: “…Table des matières; Preface ; Préface ; Tocqueville Revisited ; Catholic Republicanism Revisited ; " Démocratie catholique " et " démocratie chrétienne " ; The Influence of Catholic Socio-Political Theory on the Foundations of the Belgian Welfare State ; Rethinking the Origins of the Catholic Party in Liberal Italy ; Le catholicisme social dans le cône sud-américain ; Le MRP et le père Lebret à la Libération ; Perceptions and Realities ; Pillarization and Occupation in Dutch History ; Modern Ethno-National Visions and Missionaries from the Low Countries at China's Edge.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Driven apart : women's employment equality and child care in Canadian public policy by Timpson, Annis May

Table of Contents: “…s Employment Inequality""; ""2 Citizenship, Motherhood, and Employment in the Wartime and Welfare States""; ""3 The Royal Commission on the Status of Women""; ""4 A Just Society? …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Contemporary grandparenting : changing family relationships in global contexts

Table of Contents: “…Transformations in the role of grandparents across welfare states; Introduction: the many images of modern grandparenthood.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Welfare and Work in the Open Economy, Volume I. by Scharpf, Fritz W.

Full text (MCPHS users only)

Liberal utilitarianism and applied ethics by Häyry, Matti

Full text (MCPHS users only)

Civil society and gender justice : historical and comparative perspectives

Table of Contents: “…; Chapter 12-Civil society-by-design; Civil society, the state, and citizenship; Chapter 13-The rise of welfare states and the regendering of civil society; Chapter 14-Fellow feeling; Chapter 15-'Bringing the state back in'; Civil society, public space, and gender justice:a selected bibliography; Cont.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Transnationalism and Resistance : Experience and Experiment in Women's Writing. by Parker, Adele

Table of Contents: “…Bodies of Female Experience and Experiment; Erotics and Corporeality in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's DICTEE; ""At Home at the Border"": Performing the Transcultural Body in Josefina Báez's Dominicanish; ""Antibody"": Aase Berg's Grotesque Poetryand the Swedish Welfare State; II. Trauma, Resistance, Nation; Assia Djebar's Seductive Trails in So Vastthe Prison: ""A Philosopher's Thought Experiment""?…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

The Veterans Charter and post-World War II Canada

Table of Contents: “…Stevenson -- Canadian universities and Canadian veterans of World War II / Peter Neary -- From neurasthenia to post-traumatic stress disorder : Canadian veterans and the problem of persistent emotional disabilities / Terry Copp -- Going back to main street : the development and impact of casualty rehabilitation for veterans with disabilities, 1945-1948 / Mary Tremblay -- Family allowances, old age security, and the construction of entitlement in the Canadian welfare state, 1943-1951 / James Struthers -- Canadian domesticity in the postwar era / Doug Owram -- A half-century on : the veterans' experience / J.L. …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Divide and Deal : the Politics of Distribution in Democracies. by Shapiro, Ian

Table of Contents: “…9780814740583_Shapiro_front; 978-0-8147-4058-3-text.pdf; Contents; Introduction; Part I Institutions; 1 Welfare Regimes and Redistribution in the South; 2 Distributional Confl icts in Mature Welfare States; 3 The Politics of Tax Structure; 4 AIDS, Inequality, and Access to Antiretroviral Treatment; 5 Distributive Politics and Formal Institutions in New Democracies: The Effect of Electoral Rules on Budget Voting in the Russian State Duma, 1994 -- 2003; Part II Individuals; 6 Religion and Social Insurance: Evidence from the United States, 1970 -- 2002.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Wellbeing Economics : Future Directions for New Zealand. by Dalziel, Paul

Table of Contents: “…Market Production and WellbeingPhysical Capital and Wellbeing; Market Employment and Wellbeing; Labour Market Skills and Wellbeing; Human Capital and Wellbeing; 5 Public Service to Expand Capabilities; Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Wellbeing; Taxation and Wellbeing; Market Regulation and Wellbeing; Equity and Wellbeing; Infrastructure and Wellbeing; The Public Service and Wellbeing; 6 Future Directions for New Zealand; A Wellbeing Example; Value-Added Activities; Skills and Education; The Living Standards Framework and Better Public Services; From Welfare State to Wellbeing State.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Understanding democratic politics : an introduction

Table of Contents: “…Social Capital -- 20. The Welfare State and Democracy -- 21. Cyber-democracy -- 22. …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

The Contradictions of Israeli Citizenship : Land, Religion, and State. by Ben-Porat, Guy

Table of Contents: “…Dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in the Israeli welfare state: State- building and political economy.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Narrative care : biopolitics and the novel by De Boever, Arne

Table of Contents: “…Coetzee's Slow man as "a biologico-literary experiment" -- A novel of care -- The welfare state -- From pastoral care to biopolitics -- Elizabeth Costello's "biologico-literary experiment" -- The politics of companionship -- Bare life and the camps in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never let me go -- Exploding care -- Biopolitics in Never let me go -- The novel as a camp -- Aesthetics of existence -- Life-writing in Paul Auster's The book of illusions -- Creation and destruction -- Life-stories (Sadism and the novel) -- The inner life of Martin Frost -- History's remains -- "Just being": on Tom McCarthy's Remainder -- Very little, almost nothing -- The pharmacology of re-enactment -- "Strategy of the real" -- The re-enactment of the novel (Re-enactment and politics) -- Synecdoche, New York -- Conclusion: Pedro Almodóvar's Talk to her as a narrative of care -- Narrative coma -- Care and gender -- Rebellions of care.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

International political economy

Table of Contents: “….- Mexico relations -- Religious diversity and corruption : cross country evidence -- Social market economy and welfare state towards the formation of a new cybereconomy.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Getting on track : social democratic strategies for Ontario

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE: RETHINKING ONTARIO'S INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY -- 1 Dealing with the New Global Economy: What the Premier's Council Overlooked -- 2 Technology and Trade: Finding the Right Mix -- 3 Alternatives to Competitiveness -- PART TWO: STRATEGIC CHOICES FOR LABOUR -- 4 Labour Movements and the Welfare State: Alternatives in the 1990s -- 5 Fragmented Flexibility: Labour and the Social Dividend Solution -- 6 Full Employment â€? …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Dispatches from the frontlines : studies in foreign policy, comparative politics, and international affairs by Wiarda, Howard J., 1939-

Table of Contents: “…-- The Baltics Endangered -- Brazil as a BRIC -- European Welfare States and American Health Care Reform -- Religion, Security and the Future of Latin America -- Global Issues -- Globalization -- Corporatism in the Modern World -- The Candidates and Their Foreign Policy Teams -- Civil Society -- Smarter Democracy Promotion -- Economic Crisis and the State -- Conservative Braintrust -- Comparative Politics, International Relations, and Foreign Policy -- Nation-Building -- Divided America -- Obama Foreign Policy -- The Democracy Agenda -- The Legacy of Colonialism: The Portuguese and Dutch Colonial Empires -- The Legacy of Portuguese Rule in Asia -- The Dutch Diaspora -- Concluding Remarks on Favorite Places and Ongoing Research -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Improving Institutions for Green Landscapes in Metropolitan Areas : Improving Institutions for Green Landscapes in Metropolitan Areas. by Van Rij, E.

Table of Contents: “…Landscape changes and the restructuring of the welfare stateSigns of landscape changes; Signs concerning spatial quality; Signs concerning zoning; Signs concerning land ownership; Struggling landscape guardians; Recreational areas; Nature conservation sites; The importance of farmers for metropolitan green areas; Influences of the restructuring of the welfare state; Impact on sector departments; Direct impact on spatial planning; Conclusion; Market or government; the limitations of Transaction Cost Theory; Branches of Transaction Cost Theory; Transaction Cost Theory in the field of planning.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

A Modern Migration Theory An Alternative Economic Approach to Failed EU Policy. by Peo, Hansen

Table of Contents: “…The fiscal impact as trade-offs between migration and the welfare state -- A trade-off between research and realism? …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Social Work and Social Policy Advancing the Principles of Economic and Social Justice. by Colby, Ira C.

Table of Contents: “…Some Daunting Challenges Facing Historians of the American Welfare State -- Nine Eras -- Topics for Further Research -- Where Next? …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Civil society in the age of monitory democracy

Table of Contents: “…Associative Democracy in the Swedish Welfare State; Chapter 11. State Capture of Civil Society: Effects of Patronage in the Norwegian Aid Industry; Chapter 12. …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Globalization, social justice, and the helping professions

Table of Contents: “…Lawson -- Economics, transnational corporations, and social justice / William Roth -- Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) / Nancy Claiborne -- Globalization : effects on the welfare state and social policy / William Roth -- Globalization and Africa : development challenges and implications for helping professionals / Shirley J. …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Social Welfare : Structure and Practice. by Macarov, David

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 10 -- Isms as Ideologies-Racism, Sexism, Ageism, and XenophobiaPart III -- Inflences on Social Welfare; Chapter 11 -- The Influence of Martin Luther on Work and Welfare; Chapter 12 -- The Influence of Charles Darwin and Adam Smith on the Development of Social Welfare; Part IV -- Issues in Social Welfare; Chapter 13 -- Persisting Poverty; Chapter 14 -- Persisting Unemployment; Chapter 15 -- From Welfare State to Welfare Society and Welfare Reform; Chapter 16 -- Description, Prediction, and Prescription; References; Index; About the Author.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Higher education in austerity Europe

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : thinking within, against and beyond austerity / Jon Nixon -- Higher education, welfare states and austerity : pressures on competing public institutions / Marek Kwiek -- Crises, collisions and sectoral defence : the European governance of education policy / Ase Gornitzka -- "Calculemus" : complex games of standardization in higher education / Paolo Landri, Rosaria Lumino and Roberto Serpieri -- Budgetary constraints and international aspirations : higher education in Poland / Dorota Dakowska -- From neoliberalism to austerity : compounded inequalities in Croatian higher education / Danijela Dolenec -- Hollow enterprise : austerity Ireland and the neoliberal university / Marnie Holborow and John O'Sullivan -- A lost generation : Greek political turbulence and its aftermath / Daphne Kyriaki-Manessi -- Austerity in disguise : attempts at reshaping Lithuanian higher education / Almantas Samalavicius -- The politics of austerity and entrepreneurialism : reflections on the role of the humanities / Ari-Elmeri Hyvanen and Esko Harni -- Advocating for excellence : stepping beyond austerity / Nicole Rege Colet -- Towards a new epistemic order : higher education after neoliberalism / Ourania Filippakou -- Reflections : from the outside looking in / Tanya Fitzgerald, Manja Klemencic and Jae Park -- Coda / Jon Nixon.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)