Social Policy & Services
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From  Safer Child ProtectionFrom: Early Intervention |
social responsibility and child protection | James Hughes | 28 | 2015 | $2.80 Add |
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From  States, Communities, and Markets: The Distributed Governance ScenarioFrom: The New Geo-Governance |
In the face of this new emerging institutional order, the whole difference between the perspectives of the optimist and the pessimist hinges on the extent to which one believes in the … | Gilles Paquet | 14 | 2005 | $1.26 Add |
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From  The Best Strategies for Reducing Social Inequalities in Health |
Social inequalities in health may now be clearly recognized, but this is not true of strategies for reducing them. This chapter describes two pioneering initiatives aimed at reducing social … | Dominique Côté; Marie-France Raynault; Sébastien Chartrand | 7 | 2015 | $0.70 Add |
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From  NEW! A Brief History of Basic Income in Canada |
In this chapter, various basic income schemes in Canada are detailed, from William Aberhart’s Social Credit Party to the famous "Mincome" project in Dauphin, Manitoba. The chapter … | Dr. Danielle Martin; Elaine Power; Jamie Swift | 35 | 2021 | $3.50 Add |
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From Addressing AutismFrom: Early Intervention |
This chapter describes the disability known as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and details what researchers and parents say can be done about it. It also tells the story of how the policy-makers … | James Hughes | 28 | 2015 | $2.80 Add |
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From  NEW! From the Inside and OutManaging a Minefield of Relationships |
Chapter 3 looks at how bureaucrats can build and maintain relationships with elected officials and their fellow civil servants. It also explores their relationships with individuals and groups … | Angela Poirier; Jane Allt | 21 | 2020 | $2.10 Add |
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From  Hamilton LabourThe Failure of an Opposition Group From: Their Town |
A history of the attempts by labour, at times almost successful, to wrest power from the dominant business interests, and an analysis of the reasons for labour’s failure to win political … | Bill Freeman | 23 | 2016 | $2.30 Add |
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From Social Learning, Collaborative Governance, and the Strategic StateFrom: The New Geo-Governance |
The strategic state undoubtedly has a role to play in jump-starting, catalyzing, and steering the process of social learning, while allowing the other two domains (the private and civic sectors) … | Gilles Paquet | 18 | 2005 | $1.62 Add |
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From  Sue Rodriguez:Who Owns My Life? — 1993 From: The Right to Die |
A landmark event in the history of the movement to legalize assisted death in Canada began with a videotaped statement issued to a parliamentary committee in 1992. In November of that year, a … | Gary Bauslaugh | 18 | 2016 | $1.80 Add |
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From The Example of the Nordic Countries |
Even between countries with comparable overall levels of wealth, and thus of human and material resources, international comparisons reveal great disparities between indicators of poverty and … | Dominique Côté; Marie-France Raynault; Sébastien Chartrand | 7 | 2015 | $0.70 Add |
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From  NEW! UncoverFrom: Making Shift Happen |
This chapter explores how to Uncover ways to change our behaviour using the Behavioral Drivers Analysis (BDA), an analytic tool for uncovering evidence-based drivers in different people. The … | Ashleigh Kellerman; Lauren Highleyman; Nya Van Leuvan; Rod Fujita | 65 | 2022 | $6.50 Add |
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From NEW! Basic Income Comes to Ontario – But Briefly |
This chapter covers the short-lived basic income project in Ontario, from it’s inception to its cancellation by the newly-elected Ford government. | Dr. Danielle Martin; Elaine Power; Jamie Swift | 23 | 2021 | $2.30 Add |
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From NEW! Best-Laid Plans |
Chapter 4 explores how plans are made, and unmade in government. It explores how plans are developed and approved and how success is measured, as well as the myriad pitfalls that can arise along … | Angela Poirier; Jane Allt | 34 | 2020 | $3.40 Add |
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From NEW! DesignFrom: Making Shift Happen |
This chapter focuses on how to Design your environment for behaviour change. The chapter focuses on how you can design a new product, service, communication strategy, policy, choice architecture, … | Ashleigh Kellerman; Lauren Highleyman; Nya Van Leuvan; Rod Fujita | 32 | 2022 | $3.20 Add |
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From Ecologies of Governance as Social TechnologiesFrom: The New Geo-Governance |
It is most effective to partition the problem into compartments, and to put in place ecologies of governance making the highest and best use—in an eclectic way—of all the possible … | Gilles Paquet | 12 | 2005 | $1.08 Add |
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From John Hofsess and his Underground RailroadFrom: The Right to Die |
John Hofsess, who founded the Right to Die Society of Canada in 1991, is an intriguing and controversial figure. He was a friend of artists and intellectuals such as Margaret Atwood, Claude Jutra … | Gary Bauslaugh | 33 | 2016 | $3.30 Add |
