Laws regulating the industrial labor process, pensions for the elderly, unemployment insurance, and measures to educate and ensure the welfare of children were enacted in many industrializing capitalist nations from the 1850s to the 1920s. This same period saw the development of…
Gerhard A. Ritters Standardwerk über Entstehung und Entwicklung des Sozialstaats seit der Frühen Neuzeit ist so aktuell wie nie. Die öffentlichen Debatten über Sozialtransfers, Gesundheitskosten und die angemessene Höhe von Hartz-IV-Leistungen schlagen hohe Wellen - nicht nur in…
Sexuality, human rights, and public policy
Sexuality, Human Rights, and Public Policy explores the intersection of public policy, human rights, and sexuality as they relate to inclusion and exclusion across diverse cultural settings. It examines how knowledge is formed and experienced at the intersections of culture, sex…
Critical in policy analysis is not only the question whether it works. One needs to know *how* it works. This is a question about causal mechanisms. In this exemplary volume the authors provide some generic mechanisms that can apply in variety of settings along with detailed cas…