Social capital and economics

social values, power, and social identity

This volume provides a collection of critical new perspectives on social capital theory by examining how social values, power relationships, and social identity interact with social capital. This book seeks to extend this theory into what have been largely under-investigated domains, and, at the same ...

The Right and the Welfare State

The Right and the Welfare State studies the welfare state policies of conservative and liberal governments. These parties have been assumed to be nothing but the welfare-sceptical flip-side of the Left, but the book presents a new theory arguing that the conventional wisdom is wrong ...

Divided

the perils of our growing inequality

The issue of inequality has irrefutably returned to the fore, riding on the anger against Wall Street following the 2008 financial crisis and the concentration of economic and political power in the hands of the super–rich. The Occupy movement made the plight of the ...

Precariedad y cohesión social

Este informe, además de ofrecer una primera fotografía de una sociedad española cada vez más fracturada, y los indicadores más relevantes que así lo señalan, intenta continuar con el debate de la necesidad de articular un verdadero sistema que garantice un nivel de renta suficiente ...

Comparative welfare state politics

development, opportunities and reform

Welfare state reform occurs in all advanced capitalist democracies, but it does not occur in identical ways, to the same degree or with similar consequences. In Comparative Welfare State Politics, Kees van Kersbergen and Barbara Vis explain the political opportunities and constraints of welfare state ...

Applied welfare economic

cost-benefit analysis of projects and policies

What is the effect of a new infrastructure on the well-being of a local community? Is a tax reform desirable? Does the privatization of a telecommunication provider increase social welfare? To answer these questions governments and their policy advisors should have in mind an operative ...

El cambio social en la era de la incertidumbre

una reflexión sobre teoría social

Los problemas surgidos en las últimas décadas en las democracias occidentales proporcionan suficientes argumentos como para caracterizar la época que estamos viviendo como era de la incertidumbre. Las teorías son importantes para explicar la realidad y para comprender los comportamientos sociales. A pesar de la ...

Acción Social en España

(centros, servicios y establecimientos de servicios sociales)

Esta obra presenta un estudio sistemático de las diversas formas de actuación de las Administraciones públicas en el ámbito de la acción social. De forma específica se analizan los centros, servicios y establecimientos de servicios sociales, determinando los requisitos jurídico-administrativos que son necesarios para una ...

Género, políticas de igualdad y bienestar

La contribución de las asociaciones de mujeres en el bienestar local es, por su agenda y formas de actuación, cada vez más relevante en las ecologías asociativas municipales. El ámbito local supone un espacio en el que las asociaciones de mujeres, junto a otras mujeres ...

Construir sociedades decentes

replantear el papel de la seguridad social en el desarrollo

La recesión mundial ha incrementado el desempleo y la pobreza en todo el mundo. Este libro expone las razones por las que es necesario desarrollar un sistema de seguridad social exhaustivo en todos los países, sin considerar sus niveles de bienestar, como medida orientada a ...

Justice as welfare

equity and solidarity

Justice as Welfare provides an egalitarian account of distributive justice by rethinking notions of welfare. It first considers possible forms of decentered welfare to promote communal and individual autonomy rather than the bureaucratic, centralized market-oriented control. Next, it uses theoretical resources to rethink the conventional ...

The killing fields of inequality

Inequality is not just about the size of our wallets. It is a socio-cultural order which, for most of us, reduces our capabilities to function as human beings, our health, our dignity, our sense of self, as well as our resources to act and participate ...

Desiguales por Ley

las políticas públicas contra la igualdad de género

María Pazos Morán explica en este libro que las políticas públicas vigentes proporcionan incentivos económicos para que se mantenga la familia tradicional, no permiten que ambos sexos puedan repartirse igualitariamente el cuidado de sus criaturas y personas dependientes e impiden a muchas mujeres mantenerse en ...

The american way of poverty

how the other half still lives

Fifty years after Michael Harrington published his groundbreaking book "The Other America," in which he chronicled the lives of people excluded from the Age of Affluence, poverty in America is back with a vengeance. It is made up of both the long-term chronically poor and ...

Law in a complex State

complexity in the Law and structure of welfare

Approximately half of the total UK population are in receipt of one or more welfare benefits, giving rise to the largest single area of government expenditure. The law and structures of social security are highly complex, made more so by constant adjustments as government pursues ...

Underclass

a history of the excluded since 1880

Who are those at the bottom of society? There has been much discussion in recent years, on both Left and Right, about the existence of an alleged 'underclass' in both Britain and the USA. It has been claimed this group lives outside the mainstream of ...

NHS SOS

how the NHS was betrayed. And how we can save it

In March 2012 the Coalition government passed into law a devastating assault on the NHS. Doctors, unions, the media, even politicians who claimed to be stalwart defenders failed to protect it from stealth privatization and dismemberment. This summer, those reforms will be felt by patients ...

El Estado de Bienestar y sus detractores

a propósito de los orígenes y la encrucijada del modelo social europeo en tiempos de crisis

Durante décadas, El Estado de bienestar y el modelo social europeo han hecho posible la creación de sociedades inclusivas, bastante justas y equitativas, y con buenos niveles de seguridad colectiva. Un acuerdo y un consenso histórico en el ámbito político y social, que descansaba sobre ...

Beyond GDP

measuring Welfare and assessing sustainability

In spite of recurrent criticism and an impressive production of alternative indicators by scholars and NGOs, GDP remains the central indicator of countries' success. This book revisits the foundations of indicators of social welfare, and critically examines the four main alternatives to GDP that have ...

Hacia la consolidación fiscal

propuestas para la sostenibilidad del Estado del Bienestar

La tensión entre las demandas crecientes de prestaciones y el agotamiento de sus fuentes de financiación se ha convertido en una enfermedad crónica y sistémica de nuestro modelo de organización social. Si aspiramos a que el mismo tenga continuidad en el tiempo, ha de fundarse ...