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Showing 1 to 20 of 418 for “"Social Policy"”.
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Social policy and operations management
This dissertation strengthens planning and policy analysis by using concepts from operations management to examine production and distribution of goods and services for disadvantaged groups. Building on the introduction, chapter two tells a cautionary tale, investigating how scholars and decision …
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Girls' voices and social policy : an examination of the effect of social policy on girls' sexuality
This thesis analyzes the effect social policy has on girls' sexuality, examining three policies in-depth that target adolescent sexuality: age-of-consent laws, parental notification and/or consent laws and sexual education policies. The analysis focuses on what affect these policies have on the …
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Financialization of housing, social policy and inequality
… after its democratic transition can be seen as a social reproduction of uneven social class relations under financialized capitalism.
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Neoliberal social policy in the United States before Reagan
… Carter administration in promoting neoliberal policy in the United States. Policy-planning groups, with extensive connections to the U.S. government and transnational corporations, such as the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission, played crucial roles in pushing neoliberal …
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A Welfare Consensus? Social Policy from Thatcher to Blair
Research Abstract A Welfare Consensus? Social Policy from Thatcher to Blair This thesis examines two central aspects of asset management by central government with special reference to health and education. First, it analyses the nature, structure and procedural legacy inherited by New Labour after …
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Science And Social Policy: Underpinning of Soviet Industrial Paradigms
Soviet policy-makers, in order to aid and abet industrialisation, seem to have chosen science as an agent for development. Soviet science, mainly through the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, was driving the Soviet industrial development and a key element of the preparation of human capital through …
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Social Policy and Compliance: An Experimental Study on Taxpayer Behavior
… have driven many governmental legislative policy changes. Funding for government initiatives primarily comes from federal tax dollars; thus, legislators regularly deliberate on the importance of taxpayer compliance. This study investigated the impact of morality and social influence …
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Social Policy and Family Well-Being: Essays in Applied Microeconomics
… to cost-benefit analyses of some of the largest social welfare programs, and help inform decisions about public spending. The focus on maternal and early childhood well-being is motivated by increasing support for the notion that fetal and infant health are predictive of individuals' later-life …
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Social policy and the politics of health: Three empirical essays
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms
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The office-housing link : social policy underwritten by private enterprise
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1983.
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The implementation of social policy : an assessment of organizational capability.
Thesis. 1979. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Alfred P. Sloan School of Management.
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Indebted societies : modern labor markets, social policy, and everyday borrowing
… replace the role of welfare states to address social risks and promote social mobility in advanced democracies. It sheds light on the socio-economic and political consequences of growing debt levels. I offer a theory that explains variation in household debt across and within countries by …
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Shaping Justice : Defining the disability benefit category in Swedish social policy
… to be characterised as disability in Swedish social security legislation and which principles are used to decide who is entitled to social security benefit as disabled. The thesis brings into focus which definitions of needs and criteria that are found 'worthy' and acceptable to include in a …
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Organizing for Social Policy Change: Child Care Policy Advocacy in Canada
… a federal child care program as an example of social movement advocacy for policy change, this thesis examines how social actors have understood the need for better federal social policy related to child care in Canada. I develop a policy and advocacy history to preface a theorization of child …
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Incorporating Climate Change in Southern African Social Policy: A Malawian Case Study
… the inclusion of climate change in Malawian social policy, and the discourse and government documents surrounding it. In Malawi, social protection predates climate change policies – in both policy in practice – however, they have risen up the Governments agenda at the same time. This is …
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Reform school reform : the nature of change in a social policy biography
Thesis. 1977. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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The Labour party and social policy 1900-1914: The case of national insurance
… Keir Hardie leading a dedicated group of early socialists in forming the party in 1900 before going on to a successful campaign for social welfare reform, a picture challenged by a number of historians. Other historians have perpetuated the simplistic interpretation having given little attention …
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Expansion despite permanent austerity? Innovative aspects of social policy in Liberal welfare regimes
… It does so though an examination of social policy expansion in early years education and care (EYEC) in England and Canada/Ontario; two liberal welfare states. This thesis contends that EYEC policy, often neglected in comparative welfare literature, is an important social dimension of …
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An exploration of social policy responses for orphans and vulnerable children in Botswana
This study explores whether social policy responses for orphans and vulnerable children(OVC) in Botswana address the needs of this category of children. The objectives of social policies and legislation (such as the Constitution, the Children's Act of 2009, the National Guidelines on the Care of …
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