Social Policy & Services

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From NEW! Design it to be VIVID From: Making Shift Happen View New Society Publishers	This chapter focuses on how to draw people into your work through Vivid design. Topics discussed include vivid communication and how to design vivid initiatives that help your audience notice, …	Ashleigh Kellerman; Lauren Highleyman; Nya Van Leuvan; Rod Fujita	27	2022	$2.70 Add
From NEW! Leverage our need for consistent IDENTITY From: Making Shift Happen View New Society Publishers	This chapter provides tools to leverage your audience’s drive to be consistent with their Identity to encourage environmental behaviours. Topics discusses include highlighting identities that …	Ashleigh Kellerman; Lauren Highleyman; Nya Van Leuvan; Rod Fujita	24	2022	$2.40 Add
From NEW! Empower through active OPTIMISM From: Making Shift Happen View New Society Publishers	This chapter focuses on how Optimism is crucial for maintaining motivation in the face of daunting environmental challenges. The chapter does this by demonstrating how to increase your audience’s …	Ashleigh Kellerman; Karina Mudd; Lauren Highleyman; Nya Van Leuvan; Rod Fujita	22	2022	$2.20 Add
From NEW! Judiciously use REWARDS From: Making Shift Happen View New Society Publishers	This chapter focuses on the risk Reward issue. By focusing on how to create rewards for certain behaviours or by increasing the size or visibility of existing rewards, you can boost your …	Ashleigh Kellerman; Lauren Highleyman; Nicholas Jansch; Nya Van Leuvan; Rod Fujita; Susan Schneider	25	2022	$2.50 Add
From NEW! Frame for appropriate ASSOCIATIONS From: Making Shift Happen View New Society Publishers	This chapter discusses how to frame information in a way that activates meaningful mental Associations, which is essential for encouraging a shift in mindsets toward environmental engagement. …	Ashleigh Kellerman; Lauren Highleyman; Nya Van Leuvan; Rod Fujita	25	2022	$2.50 Add
From Self-help From: Equal as Citizens View Formac Publishing	1990s. Looks at the emergence of a counter to the Welfare State built on two tennents self-help through entrepreneurship and economic efficiency through intergovernmental cooperation using the …	Richard Starr	13	2014	$1.30 Add
From Selling Out The Story of the Victoria Park Community Organization From: Their Town View James Lorimer and Company	The third chapter, focussing on a community organization, shows the possibilities of this form of organization for realizing the potential political power of working-class and middle-class …	Bill Freeman	11	2016	$1.10 Add
From NEW! Show me the Money From: How Government Really Works View Collection: Behind the Curtain: Day-to-day Government in Canada Formac Publishing	Chapter 7 explores the financial underpinnings of government, where the money comes from, how budgets are drafted and approved and current trends in the Government Financial Management.	Angela Poirier; Jane Allt	21	2020	$2.10 Add
From Smart Communities and the Geo-governance of Social Learning From: The New Geo-Governance View University of Ottawa Press	Smart communities are creating new geo-governance challenges: they require a new form of governance and leadership if they are to yield their promised returns, and this will only emerge in action …	Gilles Paquet	19	2005	$1.71 Add
From Social Co-ops and Social Care From: Humanizing the Economy View New Society Publishers	On Civil Society and the Social Economy On Reciprocity Social Co-operatives The Case for Co-op Approach to Social Care Beyond Defensiveness Creating a Social Marker	John Restakis	32	2010	$3.20 Add
From Social Inequalities in Health A Real and Persistent Problem From: Scandinavian Common Sense View Baraka Books	The existence of social inequalities in health is now recognized as a very real and world-wide problem; this chapter examines systematic determinants of health, which are socially produced and …	Dominique Côté; Marie-France Raynault; Sébastien Chartrand	13	2015	$1.30 Add
From Social Learning, Collaborative Governance, and the Strategic State From: The New Geo-Governance View University of Ottawa Press	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
From Social Policy in Neo-liberal Times From: British Columbia Politics and Government View Emond Montgomery	Analysis of the effects of neo-liberalism on social policy development in BC since 1991.	Katherine Teghtsoonian	21	2009	$2.10 Add
From Some Doctors Weigh In — 2013 From: The Right to Die View James Lorimer and Company	The medical community has long had mixed feelings about assisted death. Some doctors claim that helping a patient die is a violation of the Hippocratic injunction to “do no harm,” …	Gary Bauslaugh	17	2016	$1.70 Add
From NEW! Spinning a Yarn From: How Government Really Works View Formac Publishing	Chapter 9 explorers intra-governmental communications, how messages are drafted and shared and stumbling blocks to getting the message out.	Angela Poirier; Jane Allt	22	2020	$2.20 Add
From States, Communities, and Markets: The Distributed Governance Scenario From: The New Geo-Governance View University of Ottawa Press	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