Estado y sistemas de bienestar

El Estado de Bienestar es una fórmula de consenso para superar la conflictivad social. Es necesario conocer sus orígenes para poder captar la importancia histórica que supone la conexión entre ciudadanía y derechos sociales, que plasman el status de ciudadanía más allá de la retórica ...

The contentious politics of unemployment in Europe

Welfare state and political opportunities

Ed. Marco Giugni. This collection provides a novel approach to unemployment as a contested political field in six European countries. Combining two theoretical traditions that so far have followed quite separate tracks (the literature on social movements and contentious politics and the literature on the ...

Estado social y municipios

servicios públicos locales y prestaciones asistenciales en España y República Dominicama

Coords. Jose María Rodríguez de Santiago y Julia Ortega Bernardo . Este libro ofrece un estudio comparativo sobre la realización del Estado social a través de los servicios públicos y las prestaciones asistenciales que tienen a su cargo los Ayuntamientos en España y en la República ...

Los orígenes del Estado del Bienestar en España. 1900-1945

los seguros de accidentes, vejez, desempleo y enfermedad

Este libro analiza el nacimiento del Estado del Bienestar moderno en España. Durante las primeras décadas del siglo XX se pusieron en marcha los seguros sociales que son el fundamento del sistema actual. El libro se completa con una introducción teórica e histórica al Estado ...

The spirit level

why equality is better for everyone

Why do we mistrust people more in the UK than in Japan? Why do Americans have higher rates of teenage pregnancy than the French? What makes the Swedish thinner than the Greeks? The answer: inequality. This groundbreaking book, based on years of research, provides hard ...

Poverty

Poverty remains one of the most urgent issues of our time. In this stimulating new textbook, Ruth Lister introduces students to the meaning and experience of poverty in the contemporary world. The book opens with a lucid discussion of current debates around the definition and ...

Health and social justice

Societies make decisions and take actions that profoundly impact the distribution of health. Why and how should collective choices be made, and policies implemented, to address health inequalities under conditions of resource scarcity? How should societies conceptualize and measure health disparities, and determine whether they ...

Can Germany be saved?

the Malaise of the world's first welfare state

What has happened to the German economic miracle? Rebuilding from the rubble and ruin of two world wars, Germany in the second half of the twentieth century recaptured its economic strength. High-quality German- made products ranging from precision tools to automobiles again conquered world markets ...

The handbook of european welfare systems

Eds. Klaus Schubert, Simon Hegelich, Ursula Bazant. This book provides the first comprehensive information and detailed data on the welfare systems of all 27 EU member states and offers the reader an invaluable introduction and basis for comparative welfare research. The introductory chapter summarizes the ...

Fat economics

nutrition, health, and economic policy

The obesity epidemic and the growing debate about what, if any, public health policy should be adopted is the subject of endless debates within the media and in governments around the world. Whilst much has been written on the subject, this book takes a unique ...

Modelos sociales europeos

Europa ha vivido en los últimos treinta años un periodo de elevado crecimiento económico y estabilidad que ha impulsado el progreso y la cohesión social hasta unos niveles sin precedentes en su historia. En este periodo, los países europeos se apoyaron en un modelo de ...

Desigualdad y bienestar social

de la teoría a la práctica

Esta monografía ofrece un análisis sistemático de las diversas formas de medir la desigualdad en la distribución de la renta y de sus aplicaciones a la evaluación del bienestar. Se parte de un estudio pormenorizado de los índices de desigualdad, que son los instrumentos conceptuales ...

A primer in social choice theory

Processes of collective decision making are seen throughout modern society. How does a government decide on an investment strategy within the health care and educational sectors? Should a government or a community introduce measures to combat climate change and CO2 emissions, even if others choose ...

The Age of Aging

how demographics are changing the global economy and our world

The year 2008 marks the beginning of the baby boomer retirement avalanche just as the different demographics in advanced and most developing countries are becoming more pronounced. People are worrying again that developments in global population trends, food supply, natural resource availability and climate change ...

Crisis y reconstrucción del Estado del Bienestar

las posibilidades de la Renta Básica de Ciudadanía

Servicios sociales

modelos y perspectivas. Una aproximación internacional

¿Qué son los servicios sociales?, ¿qué modelos se aplican en la actualidad?, ¿cómo se perciben por quienes los requieren, los exigen o incluso, en ocasiones, losp adecen?, ¿qué tendencias son las que están marcando la praxis del trabajo social y los sevicios sociales desde las ...

El estado del bienestar en la encrucijada

Durante el mes de mayo de 2006 se celebró en la Universitat de d#Alacant, organizado por la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, la Escuela Universitaria de Relaciones Laborales y el Departamento de Análisis Económico Aplicado, el II Ciclo de conferencias sobre el Estado del Bienestar ...

Insitutions for social well-being

alternatives for Europe

In the debate on the future of Europe#s social dimension, efficiency is often seen as the main economic objective. Considerations of social equity are regarded as subjective and as a constraint on policymaking, and many argue that economic forces should prevail over social objectives ...

Social contract, free ride

a study of the public-goods problem

Access to public goods is free either because it would be too costly to exclude "nonpaying customers" from such access (e.g., pollution control) or because it would be morally repugnant to do so (children's playgrounds). The received wisdom in economics has long been ...

The theory of taxation and public economics

"The Theory of Taxation and Public Economics" presents a unified conceptual framework for analyzing taxation - the first to be systematically developed in several decades. An original treatment of the subject rather than a textbook synthesis, this book contains new analysis that generates novel results, including ...