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Diminishing Welfare: A Cross-National Study of Social Provision
Particularly in the 1990s, social welfare programs have been cut back in a number of countries Indeed, the phrases "ending welfare as we know it" or "dismantling the welfare state" have been used to describe this trend. In this analysis by well-recognized social welfare scholars, the nature and extent of changes in social welfare programs in key industrial or post-industrial countries is scrutinized. Determining if and how social welfare and employment rospects have been cut back in the United States, Canada, Sweden, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Japan helps to identify the population groups hardest hit by cutback. In the United States, for example, poor, single-mother families have suffered major reductions in income support, while more powerful groups have avoided major losses. This cross-national study not only sheds light on general trends in social welfare but also provides clues to what constitutes successful reform and what has failed. This major comparative analysis will be of interest to scholars, students, policy makers, and professionals as well as the general public concerned with social welfare issues, full employment, poverty, and economic inequality..
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Diminishing Divide: Religion's Changing Role in American Politics
The Diminishing Divide takes on a subject that can baffle even the most seasoned political operative or scholar: religion's influence on American political attitudes and behavior. The United States, a profoundly religious nation that sought to erect an impenetrable wall between church and state, now finds religion and politics tightly interwoven. Religion has been a powerful moral and cultural force since the nation's founding, but its influence on politics was more subtle in the past, when most presidents and other political leaders considered their religious beliefs to be private. In the last two decades, however, chief executives and candidates alike have been quick to express their faith in God, and many citizens-on both the right and the left-readily acknowledge the importance of religion in guiding their political beliefs and participation. The authors argue that religion will continue to alter the political landscape in the next century, perhaps in unexpected ways..
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Economics--Mathematical Politics or Science of Diminishing Returns? (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series)
Economics today cannot predict the likely outcome of specific events any better than it could in the time of Adam Smith. This is Alexander Rosenberg's controversial challenge to the scientific status of economics. Rosenberg explains that the defining characteristic of any science is predictive improvability—the capacity to create more precise forecasts by evaluating the success of earlier predictions—and he forcefully argues that because economics has not been able to increase its predictive power for over two centuries, it is not a science. .
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Diminishing Returns
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The Rich World and the Impoverishment of Education: Diminishing Democracy (Routledge Studies in Education and Neoliberalism)
This book critically identifies and evaluates neoliberal policy and its impacts on schooling/ education in the Rich World. Chapters ask ‘What Neoliberal Changes have taken place (e.g. privatisation, vouchers, marketisation, commercialization, school fees, new brutalist public managerialism, and the the assault on the comprehensive / common school principle and on democratic control of schools) and identify neoliberal `Drivers’ or Levers - national / transnational corporations, think tanks, pressure groups, state power, ideologies/ discourses. The contributors examine the impacts on equality, equal opportunities and access (social class; `race’/ ethnic/ linguistic groups; gender, rural/urban differentiation); democracy/ critical thinking; and the pay and conditions of education workers in England and Wales, USA, Australia, Canada, Finland, Portugal, Greece, Singapore and Japan. .
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