Politically sensitive and economically important, welfare services such as health care, health insurance and education have opened up a heated debate in the EU. The application of EU law to welfare services raises discontent from the part of the Member States who perceive their …
Older People and Community Care sets social and health care practice with older people firmly in the context of the new community care arrangements and the consequent organizational trends towards a market culture. However, it also questions the relative lack of attention given …
"In the EU public services, utilities and welfare services can be seen as both building blocks for the internal market and as a persistent irritant in the integration process. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the EU law on public services within the context of Euro…
Examines the interrelationship between labour market performance and the tax and social security systems through the development of a general equilibrium model called MIMIC (Micro Macro model to analyse the Institutional Context). Simulations cover the period 1987 to 2017.
States at Work explores the mundane practices of state-making in Africa by focussing on the daily functioning of public services and the practices of civil servants. Adopting mainly an ethnographic approach as a basis for theorizing, the authors deal with topics including: burea…
In Regulation and Development Jean-Jacques Laffont provides the first theoretical analysis of regulation of public services for developing countries. He shows how the debate between price-cap regulation and cost of service regulation is affected by the characteristics of less de…
This text examines the coordination of renewable energy policies in the European Union using an innovative theoretical approach to policy making. David Jacobs asks, why are national support instruments converging even though the harmonisation of these frameworks at the European …
Time-series analysis - Pooled time-series and cross-sectional analysis - Event history analysis - Boolean analysis.
Drawing on the global experience of Oxfam, one of the world's largest social justice INGOs, this work tests ideas on 'how change happens' and sets out the latest thinking on how citizens and others can drive progressive change.
