Social Policy & Services
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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  Education Policies |
Education has a predominant place in the Nordic countries, and it is free, of high quality, and accessible to all. This chapter examines the nature and tenets of education policies and the … | Dominique Côté; Marie-France Raynault; Sébastien Chartrand | 17 | 2015 | $1.70 Add |
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From  Equality or Equal Per Capita?From: Equal as Citizens |
Early 2000s. The 50-50 suplus split of 1999, survey of Ontario’s political and economic landscape in an analysis of cash transfer from the federal government, counters this through an … | Richard Starr | 15 | 2014 | $1.50 Add |
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From Family and Work-Life Balancing Policies |
This chapter examines the family policies of the Nordic countries, which emphasize financial support measures, allocation of parental leave, and work-life balance. | Dominique Côté; Marie-France Raynault; Sébastien Chartrand | 10 | 2015 | $1.00 Add |
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From Features of a Governance Regime for OceansFrom: The New Geo-Governance |
Canada’s marine dominion underpins numerous industries including commercial fishing, aquaculture, transport, shipbuilding, tourism, mining, and oil and gas extraction. Access to the oceans … | Gilles Paquet | 34 | 2005 | $3.06 Add |
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From  NEW! Fighting for Food: How We Won Hundreds of Millions for Poor Disabled People with Paperwork and ProtestsFrom: Living Disability |
A. J. Withers writes about fighting the government of Ontario and the City of Toronto for disabled people to receive more money each month, as someone who has been organizing against poverty for … | A.J. Withers | 11 | 2024 | $1.10 Add |
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From  NEW! First, Do Nothing |
Chapter 5 explores the role of the bureaucrat in the policy-making process. | Angela Poirier; Jane Allt | 21 | 2020 | $2.10 Add |
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From  Forty Shades of MercyFrom: The Right to Die |
In all of the examples in this chapter we see deaths caused by acts of mercy, and we see mercy shown to those who caused the deaths. In none of these cases was the full force of the law applied … | Gary Bauslaugh | 28 | 2016 | $2.80 Add |
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From  NEW! Forward and On Basic Income by George Elliot Clark |
In the forward, Dr. Martin links basic income to human health, and notes this link is more obvious than ever because of the COVID-19 pandemic. | Dr. Danielle Martin; George Elliot Clarke | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! Forward/Introduction |
In the Introduction, the authors outline their goal of demystifying the world of government bureaucracy and explaining the often misunderstood role of the government bureaucrat. | Jocelyne Bourgon | 10 | 2020 | $1.00 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 Gender Equity Policies |
By definition, gender equity helps reduce social inequalities. Incontrovertibly women are enriched, both financially and as citizens, when they are included on an equal footing with men in all … | Dominique Côté; Marie-France Raynault; Sébastien Chartrand | 9 | 2015 | $0.90 Add |
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From NEW! Get With the Program |
Chapter 6 explores the context and scope of government programs and services, challenges bureaucrats face when delivering those programs and services and drivers that influence costs and demands … | Angela Poirier; Jane Allt | 19 | 2020 | $1.90 Add |
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From Gillian Bennett, Dead at Noon — 2014From: The Right to Die |
At noon on August 18, 2014, eighty-three-year-old Gillian Bennett, of Bowen Island in British Columbia, took her own life. In the next several days her story was carried in the news media across … | Gary Bauslaugh | 20 | 2016 | $2.00 Add |
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From  Gosselin v. Quebec (Attorney General), 2002 |
A majority of the Supreme Court of Canada held that a provincial social assistance scheme whose base payments to those under the age of 30 were lower than payments for recipients over 30 was not … | Janet Hieber; Peter Russell; Rainer Knopff; Tom Bateman | 15 | 2017 | $1.50 Add |
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From Governance and Emergent Transversal Citizenship: Toward a New Nexus of Social ContractsFrom: The New Geo-Governance |
Australian and Canadian citizenships are emergent idiosyncratic realities. These complex institutions are the result of the on-going interaction between values and environment. The sort of social … | Gilles Paquet | 24 | 2005 | $2.16 Add |
