[PDF] Propositions En Matiere De Politique De Lutte Contre La Pauvrete 1990 1991 eBook

Author : Council of Europe
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 33,36 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789287122636

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Parallel main title: Documents de sâance. Parallel text in English and French

Author : Bertrand Badie
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 12,35 MB
Release : 1983-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226035492

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Too often we think of the modern political state as a universal institution, the inevitable product of History rather than a specific creation of a very particular history. Bertrand Badie and Pierre Birnbaum here persuasively argue that the origin of the state is a social fact, arising out of the peculiar sociohistorical context of Western Europe. Drawing on historical materials and bringing sociological insights to bear on a field long abandoned to jurists and political scientists, the authors lay the foundations for a strikingly original theory of the birth and subsequent diffusion of the state. The book opens with a review of the principal evolutionary theories concerning the origin of the institution proposed by such thinkers as Marx, Durkheim, and Weber. Rejecting these views, the authors set forward and defend their thesis that the state was an "invention" rather than a necessary consequence of any other process. Once invented, the state was disseminated outside its Western European birthplace either through imposition or imitation. The study concludes with concrete analyses of the differences in actual state institutions in France, Prussia, Great Britain, the United States, and Switzerland.

Author : International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 33,77 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Cover crops
ISBN : 088936852X

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Cover Crops in West Africa Contributing to Sustainable Agriculture

Author : Pierre Rosanvallon
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 18,76 MB
Release : 2024-04-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0691265771

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How social and intellectual changes undermine our justifications for the welfare state The welfare state has come under severe pressure internationally, partly for the well-known reasons of slowing economic growth and declining confidence in the public sector. According to the influential social theorist Pierre Rosanvallon, however, there is also a deeper and less familiar reason for the crisis of the welfare state. He shows here that a fundamental practical and philosophical justification for traditional welfare policies—that all citizens share equal risks—has been undermined by social and intellectual change. If we wish to achieve the goals of social solidarity and civic equality for which the welfare state was founded, Rosanvallon argues, we must radically rethink social programs. Rosanvallon begins by tracing the history of the welfare state and its founding premise that risks, especially the risks of illness and unemployment, are equally distributed and unpredictable. He shows that this idea has become untenable because of economic diversification and advances in statistical and risk analysis. It is truer than ever before—and far more susceptible to analysis—that some individuals will face much greater risks than others because of their jobs and lifestyle choices. Rosanvallon argues that social policies must be more narrowly targeted. And he draws on evidence from around the world, in particular France and the United States, to show that such programs as unemployment insurance and workfare could better reflect individual needs by, for example, making more explicit use of contracts between the providers and receivers of benefits. His arguments have broad implications for welfare programs everywhere and for our understanding of citizenship in modern democracies and economies.

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Page : 1580 pages
File Size : 45,22 MB
Release : 2011
Category : International agencies
ISBN :

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Beginning in 1983/84 published in 3 vols., with expansion to 6 vols. by 2007/2008: vol. 1--Organization descriptions and cross references; vol. 2--Geographic volume: international organization participation; vol. 3--Subject volume; vol. 4--Bibliography and resources; vol. 5--Statistics, visualizations and patterns; vol. 6--Who's who in international organizations. (From year to year some slight variations in naming of the volumes).