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Child Welfare Removals by the State
Child Welfare Removals by the State addresses a most important (but little-researched) legal proceeding: when the State intervenes in the private family sphere to remove children …
The Age of Dualization
Poverty, increased inequality, and social exclusion are back on the political agenda in Western Europe, not only as a consequence of the Great Recession of 2008, but also because …
Child Welfare Systems and Migrant Children
The book examines where, why and to what extent immigrant children are represented in the child welfare system in different countries. These countries include Australia/New …
The Korean State and Social Policy
There are two great mysteries in the political economy of South Korea. How could a destroyed country in next to no time become a sophisticated and affluent economy? And how could a …
Improving Public Services
The government performance movement has been in full swing for decades around the world. So, why do so many public programs and organizations continue to underperform? A major …
Reconciling Work and Poverty Reduction
This book examines the link between poverty on the one hand and labour market participation and the distributive capacity of welfare states on the other hand. It focuses on the …
Activation or Workfare? Governance and the Neo-Liberal Convergence
The last decade of the 20th century was marked by a shift in how welfare-states deal with those at the bottom of the income ladder. This shift involved the …
Decent Incomes for All
In 2000, the first social agenda in the history of the European Union was launched, and the endeavor to combat poverty came increasingly to the forefront as a specific area for EU …
Children and Young People's Participation in Child Protection
Children's participation in child protection has become a burgeoning field of interest for scholars and practitioners in the field of social work, and yet there is no edited volume …
Revitalizing Residential Care for Children and Youth
Revitalizing Residential Care for Children and Youth: Cross-National Trends and Challenges addresses the question of how societies with developed welfare and social service systems …
Counting the Poor
The poverty rate is one of the most visible ways in which nations measure the economic well-being of their low-income citizens. To gauge whether a person is poor, European states …
Social Policy and Citizenship
In both Europe and America, the landscape of social policies has undergone fundamental changes in recent decades, especially in endeavors to develop new welfare arrangements. How …