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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Welfare States"”.
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Navigating the Health Equity Gap: Bridging Systemic Challenges in Health Promotion Across Welfare States
… and health equity within two contrasting welfare state typologies: Anglo-Saxon liberal welfare states and Nordic social democratic welfare states, with Canada as the central case study. Using political economy as the primary theoretical framework, complemented by historical …
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How can elephant-caregiver interactions in zoos influence perceptions of elephant welfare states and emotions?
… zoo visitors' perceptions of elephants' welfare states and emotions. This thesis employed purposive sampling to obtain participants and a pragmatic framework through which the research findings are engaged and explored. Multiple strands of data collection were incorporated, including …
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A study of the cultural explanation of welfare: the effect of values on social policy within the welfare states
… theorising the relationship between culture and welfare. However, the cultural analysis of welfare has not been sufficiently supported by empirical evidence. Within the existing research, the causal effect of culture on social policy is either abstract (historical) as the cultural foundations of …
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Indebted societies : modern labor markets, social policy, and everyday borrowing
… circumstances credit markets 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 …
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Demystifying the welfare state: the case of the Republic of Moldova
… Socialist Republics (USSR) shared a similar welfare system in which welfare states were part of an inseparable political and economic system controlled by a totalitarian power i.e., the Communist Party. After the fall of the USSR, in 1989, an end to social provision led to a massive recession …
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Child well-being and the welfare state: a comparative analysis of poverty, child care, and child protection across welfare regimes
Welfare states are designed to promote and protect the economic and social wellbeing of citizens through principles of equal opportunity and a more equitable distribution of wealth. While the objective goal of the welfare state is to ensure the security and well-being of its citizens, the extent to …
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Matters of Measurement: Investigating the Universal Welfare State
… to the development of robust and generous welfare states, focusing on the ongoing debate around targeting versus universalism in welfare state studies. By leveraging multiple welfare state datasets and expanding the scope of welfare outcomes using cross-national time-series analyses, it …
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A haunted society: Old age pensions in Iceland from a gender perspective
… framework of the thesis: women-friendly welfare states versus patriarchal states, (in)justice in marriage, economic citizenship, Nancy Fraser’s “universal caregiver” model, and the dilemma of dichotomy concerning women-friendly policies. The results show that women have earned less …
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Getting the job done...!? (Professional) challenges on the frontline of Public Employment Services in Vienna and Milan
… have gained in importance in all European welfare states making lower level discretion an intrinsic feature of activation policies. Thus, the debate on activation policies and challenges to social citizenship has to go beyond formal policy and to take into account also its operational and …
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Convergence or Consequentialism: A study of health policy towards drug users in two countries.
… historically they have been confessionally based welfare states with similar perspectives in the area of social policy. Bom out of the Catholic social doctrine, the principle of 'subsidiarity1 had been adopted in both countries; however, although policy in both countries has been launched from a …
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Expansion despite permanent austerity? Innovative aspects of social policy in Liberal welfare regimes
… consensus that there are no opportunities for welfare state expansion in liberal welfare regimes in the face of neo-liberal economic ideology and new public management reforms to decision-making. It does so though an examination of social policy expansion in early years education and care …
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Procesos e itinerarios en las personas sin hogar
… in Europe. Current changes in the economy and welfare states of European Union States and an increasing risk of homelessness make this study and its findings critically relevant for the development of policy prevention and service provision. This study uses the European Typology of Homelessnes …
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The British Labour Party and the German Social Democratic Party: Changing Attitudes towards the Welfare State
… Party and the British Labour Party towards the welfare state during the period from 1990 to 2010 and which effects in consequence these changes had on the existing welfare states. This thesis builds on the welfare state categorization work done by the Danish sociologist Gosta Esping-Andersen …
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Work, poverty and welfare reform: welfare-to-work programmes for lone parents in depressed local labour markets
This dissertation examines the impact of welfare reform on the work and poverty of lone parents living on welfare in depressed local labour markets. It uses a comparative approach to compare supply-side welfare-to-work programmes in Sheffield, UK and Buffalo, USA, and draws on current debates in …
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Tryggheten inför rätta : Om rätten till förtidspension enligt förvaltningsdomstolarna under tre decennier
… theoretical and empirical work on changes in the welfare state, the role of law and governance in modern welfare states, and most importantly on the role of the judiciary as guarantor of social rights.
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Economic consequences of family dissolution
Welfare states and policies have changed greatly over the past decades, mostly characterized by retrenchments in terms of government spending or in terms of restricted access to certain benefits. In the area of family policies, however, a lot of countries have simultaneously expanded provisions and …
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Race to the bottom or move to the middle? Globalization and welfare transformation in the developing world
… relationship between globalization and larger welfare states under the assumption that larger welfare state sustains the openness against a “globalization backlash” (Rodrik 1997, 1998). In developing countries where the evidence for this relationship is scant, the conventional explanation often …
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Sjukskrivningssystemet : Sjuka som blir arbetslösa och arbetslösa som blir sjukskrivna
… a growing residual unemployment within advanced welfare states. The main question this dissertation poses is: “Why are the unemployed in increasing numbers filing for long-term illness benefits and what is preventing them from finding a job and returning to work?” This central question has led to …
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Path Dependency or Path Creation? Transitions in Policy Ideas and Reform Strategies in Contemporary New Zealand Pension Politics
… and to draw lessons for the evolution of welfare systems worldwide. Previous research has examined the issue of path dependency in welfare states but has not fully explained the peculiar phenomena of New Zealand's pension system, its diversity in development, and autonomous choices. …
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