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This book seeks to explore welfare responses by questioning and going beyond the assumptions found in Esping-Andersen’s (1990) broad typologies of welfare capitalism. Specifically, the project seeks to reflect how the state engages, and creates general institutionalized responses to, market mechanisms and how such responses have created path dependencies in how states approach problems of inequality. Moreover, if the neoliberal era is defined as the dissemination and extension of market values to all forms of state institutions and social action, the need arises to critically investigate not only the embeddedness of such values and modes of thought in different contexts and institutional forms, but responses and modes of resistance arising from practice that might point to new forms of resilience.

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Public welfare --- Poor --- Disadvantaged, Economically --- Economically disadvantaged --- Impoverished people --- Low-income people --- Pauperism --- Poor, The --- Poor people --- Persons --- Social classes --- Poverty --- Benevolent institutions --- Poor relief --- Public assistance --- Public charities --- Public relief --- Public welfare reform --- Relief (Aid) --- Social welfare --- Welfare (Public assistance) --- Welfare reform --- Human services --- Social service --- Law and legislation --- Civil rights --- Economic conditions --- Government policy

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Reserachers and users of public health and welfare services are increasingly expected to actively collaborate in research efforts. The purpose of this volume is to provide critical reflections on user participation in research on health and welfare services. The book addresses a range of questions - why has user participation become such an important issue? Who are defined as "users", and how should we understand notions like "collaboration" and "participation"? Which opportunities, challenges and dilemma occur as consequences of user collaboration and participation in research? And does user involvement increase the quality and relevance of research efforts? The majority of the chapters in this volume present findings from research projects where user participation and collaboration has been a core concern. The remaining chapters address general methodological and ethical questions and issues - how different forms of knowledge can find their place within a user participation paradigm, and how research quality can be construed and evaluated. The book is written for researchers, ph.d.- and graduate students, but also for users and staff in the health and welfare services addressed in the book.

Public health. --- Public welfare. --- Benevolent institutions --- Poor relief --- Public assistance --- Public charities --- Public relief --- Public welfare --- Public welfare reform --- Relief (Aid) --- Social welfare --- Welfare (Public assistance) --- Welfare reform --- Human services --- Social service --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Social hygiene --- Health --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation --- Government policy

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Is it possible for businesses to have a bottom line that is not profit and endless growth, but human dignity, justice, sustainability and democracy? Or an alternative economic model that is untainted by the greed and crises of current financial systems? Christian Felber says it is. Moreover, in Change Everything he shows us how. In this new and updated edition of the book that sparked a global movement, Christian Felber proposes a blueprint for an economics of everybody: ethical, dignified, sustainable and principled. He shows that The Economy for the Common Good is not just an idea, but has already become a broad international movement with thousands of people, companies, communities and organizations participating, developing and implementing it.

Economic policy. --- Economic nationalism --- Economic planning --- National planning --- State planning --- Economics --- Planning --- National security --- Social policy --- Business ethics --- Management --- Social responsibility of business --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Economic policy --- Common good --- Welfare economics --- Public welfare --- Mixed economy --- Democracy --- Economy, Mixed --- Third way (Economics) --- Capitalism --- Socialism --- Benevolent institutions --- Poor relief --- Public assistance --- Public charities --- Public relief --- Public welfare reform --- Relief (Aid) --- Social welfare --- Welfare (Public assistance) --- Welfare reform --- Human services --- Social service --- Good, Common --- Public good --- Political science --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Justice --- Public interest --- Self-government --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Economic aspects --- Government policy --- E-books --- Management - Moral and ethical aspects --- Popular economics --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- Moral and ethical aspects.

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"This book is an ethnography of the politics of waiting. While the global political economy is usually imagined through metaphors of acceleration and speed, Ozolina's book reveals waiting as the shadow temporality of the contemporary logic of governance. The ethnographic site for this analysis is a state-run unemployment office in Latvia. This site not only grants the author unique access to observing everyday implementation of social assistance programmes that use acceleration and waiting as forms of control, but also serves as a vantage point from which to compare Western and post-Soviet welfare policy designs. The book thus contributes to current debates across sociology and anthropology around the increasingly coercive forms of social control, by examining ethnographic forms of statecraft that have emerged over several decades of neoliberalism. The ethnographic perspective reveals how time shapes a nation's identity, as well as one's sense of self, in culturally specific ways. The book traces how both the Soviet past, with its narratives of building communism at an accelerated speed while waiting patiently for a better future, as well as the post-Soviet nationalist narratives of waiting as a sacrifice for freedom, come to play a role in this particular case of the politics of waiting. This book will be essential reading for students and scholars interested in contemporary forms of state power, temporal politics, and political subjectivity formation, as well as comparisons between Western and post-Soviet welfare reforms." -- Back cover. This book is an ethnography of politics of waiting. While the global political economy is usually imagined through metaphors of acceleration and speed, this book reveals waiting as the shadow temporality of the contemporary logics of governance. The ethnographic site for this analysis is a state-run unemployment office in Latvia, serving as a vantage point from which to observe how welfare programmes use acceleration and waiting as forms of control as well as to compare Western and post-Soviet welfare policy designs. The book is therefore a timely sociological critique of the forms of statecraft that have emerged in the aftermath of neoliberalism. The key audiences for this book are students and scholars of sociology, anthropology, social policy, and social and political theory, as well as policymakers and activists with an interest in welfare reforms and comparisons between Western and post-Soviet welfare designs.

Unemployment. --- Joblessness --- Employment (Economic theory) --- Full employment policies --- Labor supply --- Manpower policy --- Underemployment --- Unemployment --- Public welfare --- Benevolent institutions --- Poor relief --- Public assistance --- Public charities --- Public relief --- Public welfare reform --- Relief (Aid) --- Social welfare --- Welfare (Public assistance) --- Welfare reform --- Human services --- Social service --- Political aspects --- Government policy --- E-books --- Polittics. --- Public welfare. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics. --- Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography. --- Political aspects. --- Latvia. --- Lifli︠a︡ndskai︠a︡ gubernīi︠a︡ (Russia) --- Ostland --- L.P.S.R. --- Läti Nõukogude Sotsialistlik Vabariik --- Latvian S.S.R. --- Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic --- Latvian SSR --- Latvii︠a︡ --- Latviĭskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Latviĭskai︠a︡ Sovetskai︠a︡ Sot︠s︡ialisticheskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Latviĭskai︠a︡ SSR --- Latvija --- Latvijas Padomju Socialistiska Republika --- Latvijas PSR --- Latvijas Republika --- Laṭviyah --- Latviyskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika --- Leṭland --- Letònia --- Lettland --- Lettonie --- Łotwa --- LPSR --- Repubblica Socialista Sovietica della Lettonia --- Republic of Latvia --- Латвия --- Latvii͡ --- Latviĭskai͡a Respublika --- Latviĭskai͡a Sovetskai͡a Sot͡sialisticheskai͡a Respublika --- Latviĭskai͡a SSR --- Russia (Federation) --- Europe --- Polittics --- Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics --- Austerity. --- Ethics. --- Ethnography. --- Post-Soviet. --- Waiting. --- Workfare.