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Reliability and social policy

IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 2001
This paper is adapted from the author's speech at the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, January, 2001. The author discusses decision-making, hazards, technological upsets, and the social contexts within which reliability decisions are made.
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Paternalism and Social Policy

Journal of Social Policy, 1978
ABSTRACTThis paper discusses the notion of paternalism, and its application to the evaluation of social policies. It attempts first to define the concept, using Mill's distinction between self- and other-regarding actions. A paternalistic policy is one in which the government renders a self-regarding action less eligible for a citizen, with the ...
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Social Policy and Runaways

Journal of Health & Social Policy, 1991
This paper examines the relationship between social policy and the phenomenon of runaways and their health. Through an exploration of the literature and reference to empirical studies, including the author's own work, it provides background and establishes the relationship between being in care and running. Assumptions which guide social policy as well
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Globalisation and Social Policy

Social Work in Health Care, 2001
This paper discusses six major themes: that economic and social issues are closely interdependent and that the appropriate stance is to work on both together, simultaneously; that though the threats from globalisation have been exaggerated, there can be substantial costs as well as considerable benefits; that constraints on national policy are ...
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Violence and social policy

2015
The most important thing to understand about violence and social policy from the perspective of critical criminology is that social policy matters: the level of violence a society suffers is fundamentally shaped by both past and present social policies.
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Social policy in China

2008
Community safety emerged as a new approach to tackling and preventing local crime and disorder in the late 1980s and was adopted into mainstream policy by New Labour. This book provides the first sustained critical and theoretically informed analysis of the community safety agenda by leading authorities in the field.
Chak Kwan Chan, Kinglun Ngok, David Phillips   +2 more
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Scandal, Social Policy and Social Welfare

2005
By examining the landmark scandals of the post-war period, including more recent ones such as the Victoria Climbie Inquiry, this book reveals how scandals are generated, to what purposes they are used and whose interests they are made to serve.
Ian Butler, Mark Drakeford
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Social Policy and Social Movements: ‘Race’, Racism and Social Policies

1998
During the Conservative Party Conference in October 1997 Lord Tebbit chose to focus on a critique of what he saw as the dangers of multiculturalism for British society. Warning that multiculturalism was a ‘divisive force’ for society as a whole Tebbit warned that ‘Unless we share standards, moral values, language and our national heritage, we will ...
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Social theory and social policy:

2017
In this chapter, Robert Pinker discusses the complex relationship between social theory and social policy in democratic societies, focusing on the work of the philosophers Hilary Putnam and Karl Popper. Pinker first considers the distinction between scientific theory, normative theory and ideology and whether it is possible — or desirable — to design ...
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Approaches to Social Policy: From Social Policy, to Comparative Social Policy to Global Social Policy

2017
Kepa Artaraz, Michael Hill
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