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  1. Welfare Reform in East Asia

    Towards Workfare

    Edited by Chak Kwan Chan, Kinglun Ngok

    Series: Comparative Development and Policy in Asia

    In many Western countries, social welfare payments are increasingly being made conditional on recipients doing voluntary work or attending job training courses, a system known as "welfare-to-work" or "workfare". Although social welfare in Asia is very different to the West, with much smaller social...

    Published September 1st 2011 by Routledge

  2. The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion

    Identity Politics in Twenty-First Century America

    Edited by David Ericson

    Assessing the limits of pluralism, this book examines different types of political inclusion and exclusion and their distinctive dimensions and dynamics. Why are particular social groups excluded from equal participation in political processes? How do these groups become more fully included as...

    Published December 19th 2010 by Routledge

  3. The Risk of Social Policy?

    The electoral consequences of welfare state retrenchment and social policy performance in OECD countries

    By Nathalie Giger

    Series: Routledge/EUI Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State

    The Risk of Social Policy? uses a comparative perspective to systematically analyse the effects of social policy reforms and welfare state retrenchment on voting choice for the government. It re-examines twenty elections in OECD countries to show if and how social policy issues drive elections....

    Published November 30th 2010 by Routledge

  4. Political Institutions and Lesbian and Gay Rights in the United States and Canada

    By Miriam Smith

    Series: Routledge Studies in North American Politics

    Lesbian and gay citizens today enjoy a much broader array of rights and obligations and a greater ability to live their lives openly in both the U.S. and Canada. However, while human rights protections have been exponentially expanded in Canada over the last twenty years, even basic protections in...

    Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge

Forthcoming Books

  1. Globalizing Human Rights: Emerging Issues and Approaches
    Edited by Charles Anthony Smith
    To Be Published July 11th 2013
  2. New Directions in the Sociology of Human Rights
    Edited by Patricia Hynes, Michele Lamb, Damien Short, Matthew Waites
    To Be Published August 6th 2013
  3. Defending Democracy and Securing Diversity
    Edited by Christian Leuprecht
    To Be Published August 15th 2013
  4. Employment, Inequality and Globalization: A Continuous Concern
    Edited by Rolph van der Hoeven
    To Be Published August 15th 2013
  5. Morality Policies in Europe: Concepts, Theories and Empirical Evidence
    Edited by Christoph Knill
    To Be Published October 14th 2013

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