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The Springer series International Perspectives on Social Policy, Administration and Practice puts the spotlight on international and comparative studies of social policy, administration, and practice with an up-to-date assessment of their character and development. In particular, the series seeks to examine the underlying assumptions of the practic...

Citation: Chen, Sheying, & Powell, Jason (2016). Introduction: Global economy and inequality. In: Berdayes, Vicente & Murphy, John W. (eds.), Neoliberalism, Economic Radicalism, and the Normalization of Violence. New York, NY: Springer.

NEW MASTERS MODULE OFFERING FOR 2024 - KINDLY DISTRIBUTE IN YOUR NETWORK: South Africa’s ‘democratic model’ (constitutional democracy) and ‘development model’ (built around free market growth and expansive fiscal redistribution programmes of social grant, free basic services, housing and access to free basic education and healthcare) – is ‘no long...

A nivel internacional, el acceso a la información y el cono-cimiento es considerado un indicador que la mayoría de los países busca cumplir. Esto se debe a que está muy relacionado con el desarrollo, la innovación y la investigación, utilizados como estrategia para el crecimiento económico, político y social en las naciones. En ese sentido, las uni...

Food safety stands at the forefront of social policies across nations. Secondary meat raw materials present a potential source for meat production. Our research objective was to analyze the nutritional value and functional-technological properties of horsemeat and protein additives of animal origin, particularly secondary meat raw materials such as...

This article analyses the role of political parties in policy accumulation. We study this relationshipin the area of social policy. Our analysis builds on a large data set covering the size of policy portfolios (policytargets and instruments) in three subfields of social policy for 22 OECD countries over 30 years. We find that the probability of so...

The production, distribution and consumption of drugs has long been seen as a threat to social and economic development. On the other hand, conditions of unemployment and poverty foster expansion of illegal drug markets. In this study, I offer a nuanced view of the drugs/development connection where poverty and unemployment incentivize participatio...

The People's Council of Ba Ria-Vung Tau province has Resolution No. 13/2017/NQ-HDND promulgating regulations on a number of policies to encourage socialization of activities in the field of education and training, vocational training, health, culture, sports, environment, and judicial assessment in Ba Ria-Vung Tau province. This Resolution takes ef...

This article addresses public attitudes towards government measures to contain preventable diseases in China in light of personal privacy and social safety controversies. Using a nationwide Internet survey of 776 Chinese adults and an online worldview database, we seek to explain the reason for causing differing public opinions on prevention polici...

Evidence-based education policy needs comprehensive data. Education economists of the Verein für Socialpolitik call for the implementation of a longitudinal education register in Germany to understand the complex interrelationships of education systems. The education register should cover all levels of formal education and include data on student p...

There has been an increasing interest in exploring the different types of welfare regimes in middle- and low-income countries. However, most of the studies so far seem to neglect the importance of illicit groups as welfare providers. Illicit groups can be so powerful in many of these societies, that they can create extensive social safety nets embe...

Zusammenfassung Aktuelle Forschung verbindet populistische Einstellungen von BürgerInnen mit ökonomischen Sorgen, Gefühlen fehlender Anerkennung oder politischer Unzufriedenheit. Dieser Artikel untersucht, welche konkreten wirtschafts- und sozialpolitischen Einstellungen BürgerInnen mit Populismus verknüpfen. Argumentiert wird, dass die Bewertung k...

The article intends to systematize the scientific knowledge about the relationship between public opinion and street-level bureaucrats' perceptions of Welfare Deservingness and their connections with social protection policies implementation within the framework of the current Welfare State, namely in the Southern European countries. The scoping re...

O estudo tem como objetivo conhecer a experiência do Assistente Social no Programa de Tratamento Fora de Domicílio – TFD com ênfase no atendimento aos pacientes traumato-ortopédicos no Hospital Regional do Baixo Amazonas do Pará Dr. Waldemar Penna – HRBA, em Santarém/PA. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa, transversal, de abordagem descritiva, te...

El salario rosa es una iniciativa que se generó como política social en el Estado de México destinada a abordar la desigualdad de género en el ámbito laboral y promover la igualdad salarial entre hombres y mujeres. Este Programa está dando buenos resultados, beneficiando a las mujeres con ayuda monetaria y con la impartición de cursos con el fin de...

Con motivo de la conmemoración en el 2006 del 50º aniversario de la Independencia de Marruecos, profesores universitarios de la Universidad de Sevilla, Granada, Madrid y Cádiz especialistas en el Magreb contemporáneo y en concreto en Marruecos, han elaborado estudios, investigaciones y trabajos dignos de ser expuestos y difundidos en unas jornadas...

El presente artículo tiene como objetivo principal exponer la realidad y los riesgos jurídicos, económicos y culturales presentes en la región del Istmo de Tehuantepec en las zonas territoriales en donde se instalaron los parques eólicos para cuestionar la Responsabilidad Social Empresarial de las empresas eólicas multinacionales propietarias de lo...

Uno de los proyectos más controvertidos y emblemáticos en la política ambiental de Ecuador —y en algún momento de su propia política exterior— tiene que ver con la iniciativa Yasuní ITT, por medio de la cual el gobierno del expresidente Rafael Correa decidió en 2008 —mediante Decreto Ejecutivo Nº 847— no explotar las reservas del área petrolera de...

Distribution of and access to public resources such as health, education and employment depend on the nature of the political settlement of a country. The neoliberal policies, especially in post-colonial states across Asia and Africa, could not ensure equitable access to and distribution of these resources for all and contributed to widening of inc...

Achieving sustainability within planetary boundaries requires radical changes to production and consumption beyond technology- and efficiency-oriented solutions, especially in affluent countries. The literature on degrowth offers visions and policy paths with the explicit aim of ensuring human wellbeing within an economy with a lower resource metab...

There have been significant changes in what economists include in the category of investment over the last six decades. The US government agency that compiles national income date, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, has tried to keep up with these changes, but it has not succeeded. The resulting tension between economic theory and official data can b...

Purpose: Social policies for accessing water during droughts have contributed to coexisting with dry periods. One of these policies involves the construction of cisterns through the “Um Milhão de Cisternas” Program (P1MC) and the “Uma Terra e Duas Águas” Program (P1+2). To comprehend the effects of P1+2, this study aims to assess its impacts on the...

This study examines the practice of gender mainstreaming in the context of climate finance mobilisation. It reveals how financial institutions are adopting shifts to organisational strategy, policy, and practice that advance the integration of key aspects of social sciences. This article specifically examines the role played by the Green Climate Fu...

El artículo analiza las relaciones entre el racismo del bienestar, las políticas migratorias y las políticas sociales; el impacto del racismo del bienestar en las políticas de inmigración y las políticas sociales; el uso de este racismo en las políticas con respecto a la inclusión/exclusión de los inmigrantes; el carácter estructural del racismo de...

Background Policy tools embody policy concepts and are essential to achieving policy objectives. The effective allocation of policy tools directly impacts the effectiveness of community governance and determines the modernization process of grassroots governance. We aim to analyze the logic of community governance policy tool selection, and then pr...

Background/Purpose: According to the Center for the Study of Social Policy’s “Strengthening Families Framework”, caregiver resilience, social connections, child development knowledge, social/emotional competence, and support are the five key protective factors against child abuse and neglect. From this, we developed PEACH Parenting, a mobile websit...

The relationship between inflation, income inequality, and economic growth is a subject of intense debate among economic researchers and policymakers. This study aims to analyze this relationship in Ethiopia using advanced statistical techniques such as VEC (vector error correction) model with Granger causality, and Johansen’s cointegrated. The stu...

Social Europe is back on the political agenda – as a result of severe economic crises, prior austerity policies and a change in the European discourse framework. Six years after being announced, the European Pillar of Social Rights – although legally non-binding – has become the central reference point for social policy projects at the EU level. Sl...

The Next Generation EU (NGEU) package transformed European economic governance. This article examines the implications of this change in terms of EU polity formation and in terms of social policy content. It asks whether the temporary availability of large funds increases the leverage of the Commission in the European Semester and how this innovati...

Since it is difficult to determine whether social media content moderators have assessed particular content, it is hard to evaluate the consistency of their decisions within platforms. We study a dataset of 1,035 posts on Facebook and Twitter to investigate this question. The posts in our sample made 78 misleading claims related to the U.S. 2020 pr...

We study how welfare states regimes influence the effect of episodes of fiscal consolidations on the four main components of the welfare state: social investment, pensions, healthcare and labour market insurance. Welfare state regimes are associated with distinct social policy legacies that feedback into political competition by shaping the size an...

RESUMEN La concentración de las políticas sociales y de seguridad social, tiene su fundamentación bajo los principios de universalidad y solidaridad, los cuales, se forjan para la concepción de sociedades igualitarias, siendo un pilar la solidaridad universal y la relación que tiene el ciudadano con el Estado, para contribuir y garantizar derechos...

Very low fertility is raising the obvious policy questions of how to deal with it and its consequences. But some 30 years ago various policy avenues were also suggested. This Interuniversity in Demography IPD Working paper of mine gives a critical overview and many of these views are still highly relevant today as very low fertility has spread to A...

Objetivo: Armonizar el diseño de las políticas sociales públicas desde la perspectiva de la gobernanza institucional propuesta de los gobiernos autónomos descentralizados. Métodos: paradigma interpretativo y perspectiva cualitativa. Método inductivo-interpretativo basado en el diseño hermenéutico-descriptivo. Se utilizaron la observación directa y...

Child marriages constitute a significant problem area that predominantly affects girls and concerns multiple disciplines. Many countries have established the legal minimum marriage age as 18 and have legal regulations in place to regulate marriage age. However, these laws often remain ineffective due to cultural and traditional influences. As a res...

The increased geriatric population worldwide is a clear sign of the ageing world population, and the ageing world then makes the needs and problems of older adults more visible. A key for older adults to access older adult-oriented services, ensure their economic and social participation, and maintain their functioning may be to adapt the communiti...

This research examines the developments of historical events and philosophical thought from the origins of civilizations (around 4000 years before the common era) to 2022 (included). The research documents the close relationship between philosophy and history as expressed with different roles assigned by the scientific community. The interaction be...

Age-specific mortality rates for semi-supercentenarians and supercentenarians play a pivotal role in comprehending longevity and population dynamics at advanced ages. In this study, we introduce a modified Wittstein Model, offering an alternative to the conventional S-shaped curve models used in mortality forecasting. The Wittstein Model, originall...

Countering Terrorist and Criminal Financing provides an up-to-date overview and critical analysis of terrorism financing, focusing on tactics and practical measures directed at preventing money laundering and countering the flow of terrorism funding. In doing so, the book details some of the major doctrines, outlining policies of states and key reg...

Background Loneliness has been linked to negative health and economic outcomes across the life course. Health effects span both physical and mental health outcomes, including negative health behaviours, lower well-being, and increased mortality. Loneliness is however preventable with effective intervention. This systematic review aims to identify w...

Projetos sociais esportivos: uma revisão de literatura integrativa sobre temas, locais, referenciais, modalidades e desenvolvimento Social sports projects: an integrative literature review on themes, locations, references, modalities and development Proyectos deportivos sociales: una revisión de literatura integradora sobre temas, ubicaciones, refe...

Welfare expansion in the global South is partly in response to the social crises caused by neoliberal restructuring since the 1980s, with the 2008 global financial crisis escalating them, and the covid-19 pandemic further exposing the impact on the most precarious working populations. What are the new dynamics of labor struggles against these struc...

The impact of disability on people’s lives is often underestimated because the extra costs of living with a disability are not accounted for. This paper analyzes several different methodologies for estimating those costs and explores their usefulness in designing inclusive social policies. For example, one approach is to measure what is currently b...

O objetivo deste artigo é refletir sobre os processos de incorporação teórica na conjuntura profissional do Serviço Social e suas consequências na formação e atuação contemporâneas. Bem como, refletir estratégias de valorização da intenção de ruptura diante da tradição conservadora em que a profissão foi gestada. Para isso, utilizamos referencial b...

In diesem Beitrag zeigen wir, dass die traditionellen Armutsmaße nicht geeignet sind, ein adäquates Bild der sozialen Probleme zu zeichnen, die durch die jüngsten Krisen, vor allem durch die Inflation, verstärkt wurden. Vielmehr müsste ein breiteres Indikatorsystemzur Armutsmessung verwendet werden. Da dieses in der Praxis nur auf Stichprobenbasis...

The rapid ageing of populations around the world is creating complex challenges for national governments. The establishment of sustainable and equitable long-term care systems for old and dependent people is one of the main issues of social policy in developed countries. The aim of this work is to define a cost model for residential and day care ce...

En América Latina, las políticas de inclusión y formación laboral se expandieron a la par de los procesos de precarización, segmentación y deterioro de los mercados de trabajo. Sin embargo, su ejecución está colmada de retóricas referentes al progreso individual y el bienestar colectivo; piezas de una escenificación humanitaria que desdibuja los pa...

The EU has traditionally influenced the social and employment policies of Member States through regulation, leaving redistribution to national welfare states. The latter have, however, been gradually weakened by global socioeconomic change and by the expansion of EU market integration. A series of crises over the last 15 years made a bad situation...

Crises são manifestações inerentes, próprias das contradições capitalistas, na busca permanente e a qualquer custo da obtenção dos superlucros.  Crise estrutural de 1970: evidenciou as contradições inerentes à dinâmica da acumulação capitalista.  A atual crise sanitária mundial, no contexto da pandemia do novo coronavírus, é uma crise intimamente...

The issue of old age, which until recently concerned only developed countries, has now managed to attract our attention as a country. Although most of the elderly population still lives in developed countries, the rate of increase in the elderly population in developing countries is also considerable. In Türkiye, the phenomenon of elderly populatio...

Juvenile delinquency is a critical social problem around the globe. As vulnerable beings, it is critical to understand the reasons behind children's involvement in crime. The aim of the present study is to determine the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of juvenile delinquents in North Cyprus. The population of this research is formed b...

Recruitment and retention in cancer trials are long-standing issues, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The UK National Institute of Health Research and leading clinicians have emphasised the urgency to achieve and surpass prepandemic levels of participation. Data from a recent UK trial demonstrated the impact of COVID-19 and highlighted factors...

A partir de la exposición de ejes específicos entre las iniciativas alimentarias en Argentina y Uruguay, presentamos las continuidades y rupturas de las políticas sociales y las acciones colectivas orientadas al comer en ambos países durante contextos de crisis. Las políticas aplicadas durante la pandemia de covid-19, cuando las medidas de distanci...

Solar energy is an important renewable energy source to support a decarbonization of our energy mix. Although the uptake of solar PV surged in the last decade, many households face significant barriers to invest in solar energy. Circular business models may mitigate the upcoming PV waste problem and increase energy and resource independence. In thi...

In the twentieth century national social policies stabilized the European state systems, favouring domestic concordance and citizens' support to the nation-building process. Welfare institutions have historically served this key political function also in federal systems, where social citizenship has been used as a tool to foster unity. In contrast...

Purpose This study conducts a comparative analysis of the impact of educational mismatch on Spanish wages. This paper aims to focus on the industrial, construction and service sectors at three levels of disaggregation: sector, occupation and gender. Design/methodology/approach The over-education, required education and under-education (ORU model),...

This paper is a case study based on a critical review of existing literature and primary data through interviews to investigate energy transition framing and manifestation in the Global South. It provides critical insights into sustainable energy transition in Ghana and Russia within a multi-level perspective (MLP). We argue that whereas Ghana's en...

This report presents the findings of a two-year research project called “Routes into Destitution: Identifying Vulnerabilities and Coping Strategies in the Life Course of Undocumented Central and Eastern European Citizens in Switzerland.” The research project was funded by the Swiss Centre of Expertise in Life Course Research (LIVES). The project ai...

Zusammenfassung In Anbetracht multipler Krisendynamiken wird gegenwärtig um eine Neuausrichtung des Kapitalismus und neue Formen der Marktbegrenzung gerungen. Dabei geht es grundlegend um das Verhältnis von (Privat-)Eigentum, Demokratie und sozialen Rechten. Zugleich bleibt die Eigentumsfrage ein auffälliges Desiderat der Sozialpolitik- und Wohlfah...

Tarihte siyasi iktidarı elde etme veya koruma amacıyla siyasi parti ve aktörlerin; tarımdan ticarete, ekonomiden sosyal politikalara kadar birçok farklı alanda popülist bir siyaset tarzına başvurduğuna tanıklık edilmiştir. Başlangıçta toplumun “halk” ve “seçkin zümre” olarak iki temel cepheye ayrılması ve halkın iradesinin seçkinlerinkine karşıt bi...

This report is part of an EU-wide project on the social dialogue regarding labour relations during the Covid-19 pandemic. More specifically the report aims to answer the following questions: 1. What public policy and social dialogue measures targeting the selected vulnerable groups were implemented for employment and social protection during the CO...

Redes.Com Nº 6 343 La investigación en Comunicación. Su lugar en Cuba Hilda SALADRIGAS MEDINA Dasniel OLIVERA PÉREZ ABSTRACT. Communication research in Cuba dating back to the thirties of the twentieth century. Its evolution has gone through various stages and in which there have been expansions and contradictions, a distinctly applied and a contex...

Introduction Regardless of the specific form of regulation, sex industries exist and even thrive around the world. Much of the related social policy debate centers on how to suppress or control the industries, operating from the perspective that commodified sex is minimally risky—potentially harmful to the individuals involved and to society—withou...

The article was produced from the studies and analysis of the research "Social Policies and Prison: an evaluation of the penal execution policy", linked to the Graduate Program in Social Memory and the Social Work Course of the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO). The article aims to analyze the processes of annulment of subj...

A prática esportiva apresenta inúmeras manifestações, que ao longo dos anos sofreram modificações. No contexto universitário, com a premissa de assegurar como direito constitucional, em 2009, o Governo Federal, criou a vertente do Programa Segundo Tempo (PST) Universitário, que visa possibilitar ao corpo discente o acesso à prática do esporte educa...

Poverty is one of the foremost social and economic problems. While the imbalances and inequalities arising from the production and consumption relations in the economic system can cause the problem of poverty, poverty can also pave the way for the emergence of disadvantaged segments in the society. When the relationship between poverty and disadvan...

Indonesia has established a Self-Help Stimulant Assistance (SHSA) to help develop affordable housing in Low-Income Communities (LIC). SHSA funding is provided to selected LIC to independently build new housing and renovate uninhabitable residential houses to bring them up to habitable standards and social workers have been key to the implementation...

The chapter discusses the main features of populist-type of social policy, which is gaining popularity in contemporary world, including Poland. It appears that in the long run this policy is not as friendly to the people as is usually promised. The author argues that the chances for overcoming the populist temptations lie in a new progressive fusio...

Paper aims: Housing is pivotal in advancing the quality of life. This study investigates the impact of economic complexity on the housing deficit within the Brazilian states. Originality: Several studies have investigated the significance of social policies and economic growth as explanatory factors for housing deficits. Our study sheds light on th...

This double-volume Special Issue (SI) aims at mapping the tensions that shape families and family life at the junction of what is private and personal about families and for their members, on the one hand, and how families are rendered public and political through external actors and agendas, on the other hand. As per the SI's title-The privacy and...

Aims: By discussing the mental health challenges faced by left-behind children, this article recommends or comments on existing social protection policies that can affect left-behind children’s mental health at the micro-, meso- and macro-levels to holistically understand how a range of parties can jointly socially include left-behind children, a p...

The Netherlands recently experienced a crisis in childcare benefits, leading to ‘unprecedented injustice’ for many parents falsely accused of defrauding the childcare benefit system. This crisis highlights multiple barriers in parents’ ability to access childcare already evident prior to the crisis, including the far-reaching digitalisation of soci...

Background Quasi-experimental methods (QEM) are study designs increasingly used in public health to evaluate the impact of health-focused policies. We sought to examine the scope, methodological characteristics as well as health equity considerations of policy evaluations using QEM that assess health and social outcomes in Europe. Methods We condu...

Background Least favored people experience poorer health than those with higher socioeconomic (SE) status. These inequalities are mainly due to disparities in noncommunicable diseases (NCD). Over the last decades, Portugal experienced important SE challenges, including the recession, making it fundamental to assess how health inequalities have been...

Background A socioeconomic mortality gradient, favourable to the most advantaged social groups, has been documented in both high migratory pressure (HMPCs) and highly developed Countries, including Italy. However, little is known on how this association differs between natives and immigrants. This study aimed at comparing the mortality gradient by...

The article has an empirical nature. The subject of detailed analysis is the variations in spatial distribution of human capital in rural areas of Poland and the analysis of the correlation of this phenomenon with local structures of the socio-economic development process. The diagnosis and assessment of variations in the spatial distribution of hu...

533 490 refugees from Ukraine received ‘temporary protection’ from the Czech government. The data for the cross-sectional study (919 females) were obtained via an online survey which recorded self-reported physical health and psychological status, specific aspects of mental health, coping strategies and demographic characteristics. The average age...

The recent COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of health, not only for physical but also mental well-being. The isolation to which the population was subjected in many countries drastically reduced social interaction at that time and emphasized the relevance of social capital. The aim of this article is to study the importance of social ca...

Background Attentional bias toward infant faces is associated with parental sensitivity and supports the infant-caregiver attachment relationship, ultimately fostering child health outcomes. However, experience-related determinants of parents' attentional bias to infant faces have been poorly investigated. We examined attentional bias to infant ver...

The field of professional activity of a social worker is almost entirely based on the organization and conduct of negotiations between specialists and clients; between different social services working in the field of providing social services. It is clear that the ability to effectively organize communication and conduct negotiations is an importa...

No Nigerian social policy is without criticism, whether it be constructed by a professor of academic wizardry or by the most intelligent group of men in the system. Criticism is not bad in itself. What can be bad about it is the intention of the critic. If a critic sets out to criticize a social policy with a destructive disposition, this then is u...

This article aims to discuss the new social movements in Brazil that defend democratic agendas and citizen participation as an expression of the new relations between civil society and the State, which have been built since the 1980s and are instituted in the Federal Constitution of 1988. We also explorethe changes in these relations that have take...

Access to safe, clean and affordable water is a basic human right and a global goal towards which climate change poses new challenges that heavily impact the health and wellbeing of people across the globe and exacerbate or create new inequalities. These challenges are shaped by a number of geographical and social conditions that, apart from the ri...

In recent years, the concept of corporate social responsibility has gained more attention from investors, and green innovation has become a key factor in China’s economic growth. Despite this, regional disparities still remain, and the impact of corporate social responsibility on green innovation in local and surrounding areas is worth exploring. T...

Persons with disabilities constitute the most vulnerable group to sexual, physical and emotional abuse. Individuals with mental disabilities, especially those with multiple disabilities and who are functionally dependent, may not even be aware of the abuse they are exposed to. Even if these individuals are aware of the abuse, it is very difficult f...

In response to new developments of work and employment in high-income countries (HICs), psychosocial aspects of work and health received increased attention. In contrast, middle-income countries (MICs) are mainly concerned with severe challenges of noxious and dangerous material work environments, poor employment conditions, and deficient social po...

Escribir la introducción a este número especial nos llena de alegría. Es el signo de la inminente llegada de ese final que cristaliza, en papel, el trabajo de muchos años. La síntesis colectiva de vínculos interdisciplinarios, de reflexiones transfronterizas, de cuerpos rebeldes con miradas críticas. Quienes editamos este dossier nos conocimos comp...

The aim of this research is to examine the post-earthquake trauma effect in Malatya and to reveal the situation in terms of different variables. The research was carried out with the relational screening model. The study group of the research consists of people (N=342) affected by the earthquake in Malatya province and its districts. The Post-earth...

Background Ageing in Place is the emerging social policy drive for long-term care coordination of older persons globally. This decision may be the only viable option in many low- and middle-income countries like Nigeria. Nevertheless, the risk of older persons being ‘stuck in place’ is high if their preferences are not considered or other alternati...

Epidemics of infectious diseases posing a serious risk to human health have occurred throughout history. During recent epidemics there has been much debate about policy, including how and when to impose restrictions on behaviour. Policymakers must balance a complex spectrum of objectives, suggesting a need for quantitative tools. Whether health ser...

Life expectancy is an essential indicator of economic development and health status. However, the related databases describing the overall life expectancy are relatively large and created under conditions of uncertainty, particularly regarding adjustments related to redistributing deaths of unknown age or splitting data into finer age categories. I...

Resumen: El estallido social en Colombia ha sido uno de los acontecimientos más importantes en la historia reciente del país. Desde el 28 de abril de 2021, una serie de manifestaciones en diferentes ciudades colombianas han dado lugar a un movimiento social que ha puesto de manifiesto la insatisfacción de diversos sectores sociales con la situación...

This paper aims to elaborate on the dilemmas Hungarian courts face when they appear in the forefront of policy implementation. Firstly, what kind of (legal) sources and documents should the court involve in in its legal interpretation? Secondly, what are the trade-offs between offering effective remedy sanctions and respecting the differences betwe...

Over the years, there have been a preponderance of age falsification in the country, and several scholars, have argued that, there are factors that are responsible for this. It is in that regard, this study examines the nature and causes of age falsfication from a Nigerian perspective. This study made use of secondary method of data collection. The...

This study aimed to investigate differences in determinants of active aging between older Brazilian and English adults and to verify the association of behavioral, personal, and social determinants with physical health. This cross-sectional study was based on the ELSI-Brazil (2015-2016) and ELSA (2016-2017) cohorts. Active aging determinants includ...

Since the 1990s, discussion on changes in the welfare state models and social policies shifts has intensified globally, primarily driven by the new technological revolution and aging populations. In parallel, Germany has placed increasing importance on preventive social policies, aligning with the evolving concept of social investment theory in Eur...

Este artigo tem por objetivo ampliar a compreensão sobre a visão de Caio Prado Júnior no contexto da formação social, política e econômica do Brasil, em especial quanto aos impactos da chegada da família real. Explorando relações de poder e dependência, a transição política e social é examinada, com foco na crítica de Prado ao sistema elitista e à...