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Showing 1 to 20 of 112 for “"Social policies"”.
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The Political and Social Policies of The American Medical Association, 1901-1941
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THE POLITICS OF ECO-SOCIAL POLICIES: TOWARDS A JUST TRANSITION IN SPAIN AND IRELAND
Social and environmental challenges are deeply interconnected: it is indeed becoming increasingly evident how both climate change and green transition policies are giving rise to a new wave of social risk for the welfare state to address. Therefore, the so-called eco-social policies could represent …
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THE THEORY, METHODS, AND VALUE OF INTEGRATING DATA TO ADVANCE SOCIAL POLICIES AND HUMAN SERVICES
… data can be used to address complex social policy issues and ultimately improve lives. This three-paper dissertation illuminates the underlying theories and methods for building integrated data capacity in human service agencies while also demonstrating the value of bringing together …
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Evaluating the Effects of Pharmaceutical Interventions, Social Policies, and Exogeneous Shocks on People's Health and Behavior
… governments to implement socio-behavioral policies such as lockdowns and mask-wearing mandates and companies to adopt remote and hybrid work practices. Natural experiments, such as the social isolation induced by the COVID-19 pandemic or incentive-based vaccine distribution programs aimed …
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The divine hand of the state? : how religion has influenced social policies for the poor in Iran
… that inherently supports or obstructs social policies for the poor. The notion of functional differentiation-and emancipation-of the state from the religious sphere constitutes the conventional understanding of how social policies are to be planned and implemented-a notion contrary to …
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Modelos de gestão dos serviços públicos de saúde : contexto, atores e desenho organizacional
… agent, whether as provider and executor of social policies. The Brazil felt the effects of this crisis in a moment of democratization of the country and fight for the recognition of the rights of citizenship, which brought significant barriers to the implementation and expansion of social …
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Predicting Views of Sex Offenders and Sex Offender Policies Through Life Experiences.
… is believed that one can predict views on these social policies by examining aspects of life experience due to Techniques of Neutralization and Labeling theories. Reliability and Factor analyses were used to create factor-based indices to predict views on social policies, specifically views on …
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Civic engagement in the age of devolution: how anthropological approaches can help navigate grassroots conflicts
… being shaped and influenced by larger neoliberal social policies, which has resulted in decreased funding from public sources, which therefore creates greater competition among neighborhood organizations for limited resources. In this thesis, I analyze how larger neoliberal currents have created …
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Poor law reform and policy innovation in rural southern England, c.1780-1850
… deploys a ‘policy process’ understanding of social policies, a concept developed in the social sciences, to understand the processes driving social policies under the poor laws.<br/><br/>The thesis deploys a more holistic approach to understanding the poor laws, taking into account how those …
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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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Avrupa Birliği sürecinde Türkiye'de sosyal devletin geleceği
… EU membership will lead to developments in the social policies, especially in the social policies related to employment. Under the light of this objective, acquis communataire (laws, directives, etc.) and the implementations at the EU level have been examined. This study argues that the dominant …
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New possibilities for expanding Pan-African commerce
… on regional trade integration, value chains, social policies, domestic markets, wage-led growth, and the costs and benefits of regional collaboration. The study examines how the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) can spur growth and development across the continent, highlighting the …
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Brazil as a Regional and International Leader
… it derives from its successful domestic social policies and distinguished diplomatic history of promoting international cooperation and peaceful conflict—to project regional and international leadership.
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Human Development and Regional Inequalities: Spatial Analysis Across Brazilian Municipalities
… is a willingness to implement 'pro-equality' policies, social policies should be spatially focused, instead of being applied universally across all municipalities. Third, a few spatial strategies are proposed as alternatives to implement 'pro-equality' policies. These strategies are based on …
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Does Context Matter to ACEs? The Role of State Economic Context and Selected State Policies in Childhood Adversity
… state-level economic characteristics and public policies and ACEs, and (2) whether state-level economic characteristics and public policies moderate the relationship between family socioeconomic status (SES), race/ethnicity, and ACEs. Using multilevel logistic regression modeling, this …
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Collective Leadership in Contemporary Irish Nationalism: The Writing of Gerry Adams
… antisectarianism, cultural nationalism, radical social policies, the politics of electoralism, as well as support for the armed struggle dedicated to British withdrawal from Northern Ireland and a united Ireland. Today, the modern Irish Republican movement is best represented by the political …
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The Formulation and Implementation of Competition Law and Policy and how it will advance the development objectives of a developing country
… uninterrupted civilian leadership, progressive social policies, and significant capital investment creating one of the most dynamic economies in Africa. Mineral extraction, principally diamond mining, dominates economic activity, though the tourism sector is growing in leaps and bounds possibly …
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Factors Influencing Low-Income Working Mother's Child Care Arrangements Under Different Neighborhood and State Policy Contexts
… study findings are useful in informing social policies and interventions related to child care arrangements for working families, particularly by elaborating how characteristics of neighborhoods and welfare policies may affect the child care arrangements of social economically …
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Kind world, cruel world, friends and heroes: A generic analysis of television police drama and situation comedy, 1982-1992
… but also advocate particular principles of social organization and practice within the context of the program--i.e., views of how social institutions do and should work and of how persons do and should act to promote a desirable society. These social principles entail value laden beliefs …
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Developmental change in adolescents' psychological and legal competence to consent to abortion: An empirical study and quantitative model of social policy
… a mathematical model for comparing alternative social policies governing adolescent abortion. The empirical study examines the legal assumption that minors are not competent to consent to abortion, and assesses age and psychosocial variables as predictors of legal competence. Participants are 75 …
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