Politiques Sociales / Social Policies

Politiques Sociales / Social Policies
Author: Jean-Claude Barbier
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789052014203

La multiplication des recherches comparatives internationales, notamment européennes, contraste singulièrement avec le peu de réflexion sur leur épistémologie et sur les questions de méthode. C'est à ce manque que cet ouvrage cherche à remédier en s'appuyant sur l'expérience d'historiens, de sociologues, de politistes et d'économistes de divers pays européens. Comment ces chercheurs construisent-ils la comparabilité de leurs objets ? Quel rôle les langues jouent-elles dans la clarté de la comparaison ? Comment dépasser l'opposition entre universalisme et relativisme culturaliste ? Telles sont quelques-unes des questions auxquelles cet ouvrage apporte un éclairage tout à fait novateur. Prenant appui sur leur expérience empirique, les auteurs proposent à la fois un instrument de travail utile pour les chercheurs et un outil de réflexion pour les acteurs des politiques sociales qui travaillent de plus en plus en milieu international. While the amount of cross-national comparative research has continued to grow, especially in Europe, remarkably little attention has been devoted to epistemological and methodological questions. Papers in this book by historians, sociologists, economists and political scientists aim to contribute to this insufficiently explored research topic. Drawn from various European countries, they explain how they construct their research objects. They address the role of languages in comparative research and they all try to reach beyond the opposition between universalism and culturalist relativism or particularism. The authors draw on their extensive empirical knowledge to produce a useful instrument for researchers. Their writing will also find important echoes among practitioners of social policies, who are increasingly confronted with international situations and need models to interpret the practical differences they experience.

Politique Sociale Et Croissance de la Productivité

Politique Sociale Et Croissance de la Productivité
Author: Richard G. Harris
Publisher: Canadian Museum of Civilization/Musee Canadien Des Civilisations
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This paper presents a survey of the evidence and debate on the social determinants of productivity in the context of the Canadian productivity debate. The purpose of the paper is to try to make sense of the seemingly contradictory pieces of theory and evidence linking social policy to economic growth. Essentially the paper looks at 4 areas of research: the growth and inequality debate; the small but growing literature on the policy determinants of economic growth; an examination of 2 specific social policies (education and health); the literature on major technological change, wage inequality and the new economy. To provide the context for this discussion, the paper also includes some background material on economic growth, productivity, and social policy in OECD countries.

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Publisher: Editions Bréal
Total Pages: 227
Release:
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ISBN: 2749525756

In the Name of Social Democracy

In the Name of Social Democracy
Author: Gerassimos Moschonas
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2016-02-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1784787965

Following the locust years of the neo-liberal revolution, social democracy was the great victor at the fin-de-sicle elections. Today, parties descended from the Second International hold office throughout the European Union, while the Right appears widely disorientated by the dramatic "modernisation" of a political tradition dating back to the nineteenth century. The focal point of Gerassimos Moschonas's study is the emergent "new social democracy" of the twenty-first century. As Moschonas demonstrates, change has been a constant of social-democratic history: the core dominant reformist tendency of working-class politic notwithstanding, capitalism has transformed social democracy more than it has succeeded in transforming capitalism. Now, in the "great transformation" of recent years, a process of "de-social-democratization" has been set in train, affecting every aspect of the social-democratic phenomenon, from ideology and programs to organization and electorates. Analytically incisive and empirically meticulous, In the Name of Social Democracy will establish itself as the standard reference work on the logic and dynamics of a major mutation in European politics.

The Business of Health

The Business of Health
Author: Pierre-Yves Donzé
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2022-02-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000545016

This book offers a discussion about the dramatic development of healthcare business around the world during the twentieth century. Through a broad range of cases in Asia, Europe and the US, it shows how health was transformed into a fast-growing and diversified industry. Health and medicine have developed as one of the fastest growing sectors of the economy around the world during the twentieth century. However, very little is known about the conditions of their transformation in a big, globalized business. This book discusses the development of health industries, tackling the various activities in manufacturing (drugs, biotechnology, medical devices, etc.), infrastructure (hospital design and construction) and services (nursing care, insurances, hospital management, etc.) in relation to healthcare. The business history of health carried out in this book offers a systemic perspective that includes the producers (companies), practitioners (medical doctors) and users (patients and hospitals) of medical technology, as well as the providers of capital and the bodies responsible for regulating the health system (government). The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Business History.

L'élargissement de l'Union européenne. Enjeux et implications sociodémographiques

L'élargissement de l'Union européenne. Enjeux et implications sociodémographiques
Author: Godelieve Masuy-Stroobant
Publisher: Presses univ. de Louvain
Total Pages: 467
Release: 2012-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 2875580515

En 2003, peu avant l'élargissement de 2004 qui amène la population de l'UE à plus de 450 millions d'habitants, les démographes de Louvain entament une réflexion sur les conséquences de cet élargissement sur le comportement démographique des Européens.

Droits et voix - Rights and Voices

Droits et voix - Rights and Voices
Author: Véronique Strimelle
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2010-11-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 2760319105

Cet ouvrage souligne le 40e anniversaire du Département de criminologie de l’Université d’Ottawa, fondé en 1968. On y relate l’histoire du département de ses origines à nos jours en mettant l’accent sur les débats théoriques qui ont influencé son approche critique et autoréflexive de la criminologie. Les articles qui le composent s’inscrivent dans cet ordre d’idée en mettant en question la perspective traditionnelle de la criminologie sur divers sujets, notamment les études policières, la santé mentale, la violence politique, le suicide et la prévention du crime. Droits et voix souligne le rôle primordial que joue l’Université d’Ottawa dans la redéfinition de la criminologie et la promotion du militantisme, de la justice sociale et de la compassion. -- This volume commemorates the 40th anniversary of the University of Ottawa’s Department of Criminology, founded in 1968. It relates the history of the department from its origins to today, focusing on the theoretical debates that have influenced its critical and self reflexive approach to criminology. The contributions to this volume continue in that vein by questioning the traditional perspective of criminology on a variety of topics including police studies, mental health, political violence, suicide, and crime prevention. Rights and Voices reveals the significant role that the University of Ottawa has played in redefining criminology to advocate activism, social justice, and compassion.

Dictionnaire-manuel de gérontologie sociale

Dictionnaire-manuel de gérontologie sociale
Author: Nicolas Zay
Publisher: Presses Université Laval
Total Pages: 824
Release: 1981
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9782763769257

Ce manuel constitue un instrument de travail pour tous ceux qui veulent se familiariser avec le langage et les concepts plus ou moins hétéroclites de cette jeune discipline qu'est la gérontologie sociale. -- Résumé de l'éditeur.