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  • Systematic Thinking for Social Action

    How can we identify who benefits from government programs aimed at solving our social problem and who pays for them? With so many problems, how can we allocate scarce funds to promote the maximum well-being of our citizens?In this book, originally presented as the third series of H. Rowan Gaither Lectures in Systems Science at the University of California (Berkeley). Alice M. Rivlin examines the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Schools for Ontario

    Policy-making, Administration, and Finance in the 1960s

    by David Cameron ...
    Series series Heritage
    The governing and financing of public education is everywhere a complex undertaking. The 1960s was for Ontario a vital decade in education, when the structure of local school boards, provincial and federal financing and control, the provision of academic and vocational systems, and the Department of Education itself were all reconsidered and changed to attain greater efficiency and opportunity ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Federalism and Policy Development

    The Case of Adult Occupational Training in Ontario

    Series series Heritage
    In 1966 the Canadian government announced the abrupt termination of a longstanding conditional grant relationship with the provinces in the domain of technical and vocational education. It sought to substitute a radically new arrangement whereby it would purchase occupational training for adults as an integral part of an over-all manpower policy. This book examines what ensued with particular ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Measuring Health

    Lessons for Ontario

    Series series Heritage
    Planning and evaluating any health care program is a formidable task: how do you measure the health of a population? This fundamental question has been approached from various perspectives in medical, administrative, and economic studies. This book provides a guide to health measurement literature and relates it to Ontario's current and prospective policy choices and to the federal context of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Socialist Development and Public Investment in Tanzania, 1964-73

    Series series Heritage
    With its emphasis on rural development as opposed to urban development, Tanzania has pursued an individual path in socialist development. This work is the first empirical analysis of public investment in matters of agriculture, education, rural health, manufacturing, and commerce, comparing the actual program of investment to the strategy outlined in the Arusha Declaration of 1967.In Socialist ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • 'An Impartial Umpire'

    Industrial Relations and the Canadian State 1900-1911

    by Paul Craven ...
    Series series Heritage
    This book is an insightful and detailed analysis of Canadian labour relations policy at the beginning of the 20th century, and of the formulation of distinctive features which still characterize it today. The development and reception of this policy are explained as a product of ideological and economic forces. These include the impact of international unionism on the Canadian working class, the ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Women's Work, Markets and Economic Development in Nineteenth-Century Ontario

    Series series Heritage
    Cohen focuses on the productive relations in the family and the significance of women’s labour to the process of capital accumulation in both the capitalist sphere and independent commodity production.In this study Marjorie Griffin Cohen argues that in research into Ontario’s economic history the emphasis on market activity has obscured the most prevalent type of productive relations in the staple ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Collective Responsibility

    Five Decades of Debate in Theoretical and Applied Ethics

    This anthology presents the best recent philosophical analyses of moral, political, and legal responsibility of groups and their members. Motivated by reflection on such events as the Holocaust, the exploding Ford Pintos, the My Lai massacre, and apartheid in South Africa, the essays consider two important questions: What collective efforts could have prevented these large-scale social harms? And ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • From the Secret Files of J. Edgar Hoover

    Documents uncovered from the late FBI director's secret files reveal for the first time the shocking extent of FBI activities in collecting and using derogatory information about prominent Americans and political groups. Historian Athan Theoharis charges that Hoover was an "indirect blackmailer," exploiting the FBI's resources to serve the political interests of the White House and to advance his ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Politics of Parenthood

    Child Care, Women's Rights, and the Myth of the Good Mother

    A distinguished scholar presents a landmark historical perspective on parenthood in America. This trailblazing book suggests that behind the rhetoric of maternal responsibility are issues of power, resources, and control. "Berry's book could be a significant impetus for corporate executives and political leaders, conservatives and liberals, and mothers and fathers to support parental involvement ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Continuities and Discontinuities

    The Political Economy of Social Welfare and Labour Market Policy in Canada

    Series series Heritage
    Continuities and Discontinuities assesses the making of Canadian social and labour market policy in the context of two factors—globalization and neoconservatism. Specialists from a variety of fields and disciplines examine the relation between Canada's changing political economy and its social welfare and labour market policy. These essays analysing continuities and discontinuities in policy ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Torment of Secrecy

    The Background and Consequences of American Secruity Policies

    by Edward Shils ...
    Edward Shils's The Torment of Secrecy is one of the few minor classics to emerge from the cold war years of anticommunism and McCarthyism in the United States. Mr. Shils's "torment" is not only that of the individual caught up in loyalty and security procedures; it is also the torment of the accuser and judge. This essay in sociological analysis and political philosophy considers the cold war ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Human Judgment and Social Policy

    Irreducible Uncertainty, Inevitable Error, Unavoidable Injustice

    From the O.J. Simpson verdict to peace-making in the Balkans, the critical role of human judgement--complete with its failures, flaws, and successes--has never been more hotly debated and analyzed than it is today. This landmark work examines the dynamics of judgement and its impact on events that take place in human society, which require the direction and control of social policy. Research on ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Other America

    Poverty in the United States

    In the fifty years since it was published, The Other America has been established as a seminal work of sociology. This anniversary edition includes Michael Harrington’s essays on poverty in the 1970s and ’80s as well as a new introduction by Harrington’s biographer, Maurice Isserman. This illuminating, profoundly moving classic is still all too relevant for today’s America.When Michael Harrington ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The New Paternalism

    Supervisory Approaches to Poverty

    Edited by Lawrence M. Mead ...
    If government tells dependent people how to live today, will we have a more self-reliant society tomorrow? That's the critical question as government increasingly seeks to supervise the lives of poor citizens who are dependent on it, often in return for supporting them. This trend is most visible in welfare policy, where "welfare reform" largely means attempts to require adults receiving ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Senate Special Report on Y2K

    Investigating the impact of the year 2000 problem. Book by Dodd, Christopher J., Bennett, Robert F. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The South Side

    The Racial Transformation of an American Neighborhood

    by Louis Rosen ...
    The South Side is a quietly powerful story of how a white, middle-class, and largely Jewish neighborhood, built from prairie on Chicago’s far South Side in the optimistic years after World War II, rapidly and dramatically changed to a middle-class black community in the 1960s. It is a tale of two communities that collided almost by accident at a moment in America’s history when race relations were ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Betrayal of Liberalism

    How the Disciples of Freedom and Equality Helped Foster the Illiberal Politics of Coercion and Control

    Edited by Hilton Kramer, Roger Kimball ...
    Just fifty years ago the literary critic Lionel Trilling spoke of liberalism as “not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition” in American society. At the turn of the twentieth century this is clearly no longer the case, when conservative ideas have succeeded in many areas of public policy. Yet America’s mainstream institutions—the media, the academy, popular culture, religion, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Que controle social? Os conselhos de saúde como instrumento

    Como atuam os conselhos de saúde? São realmente eficazes? Há manipulações, fraudes? Esta obra tata da necessidade do controle da sociedade sobre as ações do Estado e sobre a alocação dos recursos públicos para que sejam atendidos os interesses da coletividade. Particulariza tal controle sobre a política de saúde, abordando os conselhos de saúde como mecanismo institucionalizado para este fim. ... Read more

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  • Changing Politics of Canadian Social Policy

    No one is content with the state of health and social programs in Canada today. The Right thinks that there is too much government involvement, and the Left thinks there is not enough. In Changing Politics of Canadian Social Policy James Rice and Michael Prince track the history of the welfare state from its establishment in the 1940s, through its development in the mid 1970s, to the period of ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Atlantic Crossings

    Social Politics in a Progressive Age

    "The most belated of nations," Theodore Roosevelt called his country during the workmen's compensation fight in 1907. Earlier reformers, progressives of his day, and later New Dealers lamented the nation's resistance to models abroad for correctives to the backwardness of American social politics. Atlantic Crossings is the first major account of the vibrant international network that they ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Irreconcilable Differences?

    Explaining Czechoslovakia's Dissolution

    This unique volume brings together a multi-disciplinary group of scholars as well as Czech and Slovak decisionmakers who were personally involved in the events leading up to the separation of Czechoslovakia. Asking whether the dissolution was inevitable, the contributors bring a range of different approaches and perspectives to bear on the twin problems of democratic transitions in multinational ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Communalism

    A Socio-Political Study

    Communal Riots have been a complete problem for our politicians, thinkers, scholars and administrators alike. Before formulating any strategy or an effective policy,to keep on the aim to control in the meance of communal riots e is of dire necessity. This study has the same noble motive. ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • American Beliefs

    What Keeps a Big Country and a Diverse People United

    Why do so many different people with widely dissimilar ideas and customs get along as Americans? In American Beliefs, John McElroy identifies and explains those essential ideas that promote the unity of a vast nation and a diversified people—because they have been shared and acted upon by generations of Americans. Tracing these beliefs historically from their origins in the earliest experiences of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD