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Volume 42 - July 2013

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Book Review

Nancy Cartwright and Jeremy Hardie (2012), Evidence-Based Policy: A Practical Guide to Doing It Better. New York: Oxford University Press. £11.99, pp. 196, pbk
RAY PAWSON
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04 April 2013, pp. 651-652
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Eric Crettaz (2011), Fighting Working Poverty in Post-Industrial Economies: Causes, Trade-offs and Policy Solutions. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. £65, pp. 252, hbk.
NEIL FRASER
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19 October 2012, pp. 173-174
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Jason Edwards (ed.) (2012), Retrieving the Big Society. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell/Political Quarterly. £17.99, pp. 187, pbk
ANDY WESTWOOD
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30 July 2013, pp. 846-847
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Guy Standing (2011), The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class. London: Bloomsbury Academic. £19.99, pp. 198, pbk.
CHRIS DEEMING
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20 December 2012, pp. 416-418
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Thomas Bahle, Vanessa Hubl and Michaela Pfeifer (2011), The Last Safety Net: A handbook of Minimum Income Protection in Europe, Bristol: Policy Press. £70, pp. 271, hbk.
IVE MARX
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20 December 2012, pp. 418-419
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Naomi Eisenstadt (2011), Providing a Sure Start: How Government Discovered Early Childhood. Bristol: Policy Press. £21.99, pp. 178, pbk.
JACQUELINE BARNES
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19 October 2012, pp. 175-176
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Pat Thane and Tanya Evans (2012), Sinners? Scroungers? Saints?: Unmarried Motherhood in Twentieth-Century England, Oxford: Oxford University Press. £60, pp. 223, hbk
TINA HAUX
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08 April 2013, pp. 652-653
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Colin Hay and Daniel Wincott (2012), The Political Economy of European Welfare Capitalism. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. £24.99, pp. 263, pbk
JULIA S. O'CONNOR
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30 July 2013, pp. 848-849
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Iestyn Williams, Suzanne Robinson and Helen Dickinson (2012), Rationing in Health Care: The Theory and Practice of Priority Setting. Bristol: Policy Press. £21.99, pp. 159, pbk.
DAVID J HUNTER
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19 October 2012, pp. 176-178
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Judith A. Teichman (2012), Social Forces and States: Poverty and Distributional Outcomes in South Korea, Chile, and Mexico. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. £ 22.50, pp. 251, pbk
ROSSANA CASTIGLIONI
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30 July 2013, pp. 850-851
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Peter Kraftl, John Horton and Faith Tucker (eds.) (2012), Critical Geographies of Childhood and Youth: Contemporary Policy and Practice. Bristol: Policy Press. £24.99, pp. 279, pbk
SARAH BROOKS-WILSON
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08 April 2013, pp. 653-655
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Stephen Bach and Ian Kessler (2012), The Modernisation of the Public Services and Employee Relations: Targeted Change, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. £29.99, pp. 213, pbk.
PETER FAIRBROTHER
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20 December 2012, pp. 420-421
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Clare Bambra (2011), Work, Worklessness and the Political Economy of Health. Oxford: Oxford University Press. £34.95, pp. 242, pbk.
ED CARSON
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19 October 2012, pp. 178-179
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Becky Pettit and Jennifer L. Hook (2012), Gendered Tradeoffs: Family, Social Politics and Economic Inequality in Twenty-One Countries, New York: Russell Sage Foundation. £19, pp. 236, pbk
ÅSA LUNDQVIST
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08 April 2013, pp. 655-657
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Takeshi Hieda (2012), Political Institutions and Elderly Care Policy: Comparative Politics of Long-Term Care in Advanced Democracies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 297, hbk
JENNY BILLINGS
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30 July 2013, pp. 851-852
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Harris Beider (2012), Race, Housing and Community: Perspectives on Policy and Practice. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. £72.50, pp. 282, hbk.
ANYA AHMED
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20 December 2012, pp. 421-422
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Brian Nolan and Christopher T. Whelan (2011), Poverty and Deprivation in Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press. £55, pp. 275, hbk.
RUDI VAN DAM
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19 October 2012, pp. 179-181
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Şebnem Eroğlu (2011), Beyond the Resources of Poverty: Gecekondu Living in the Turkish Capital. Farnham: Ashgate. £60, pp. 284, hbk
FATIME GÜNEŞ
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04 April 2013, pp. 657-658
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Douglas Besharov and Kenneth Couch (eds.) (2012), Counting the Poor: New Thinking about European Poverty Measures and Lessons for the United States.New York: Oxford University Press and School of Public Policy, University of Maryland. £45, pp. 434, hbk
JULIO BOLTVINIK
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30 July 2013, pp. 852-855
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Gary Craig, Karl Atkin, Sangeeta Chattoo and Ronny Flynn (eds.) (2012), Understanding ‘Race’ and Ethnicity: Theory, History, Policy, Practice. Bristol: Policy Press. £22.99, pp. 312, pbk.
BEN PITCHER
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20 December 2012, pp. 423-424
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Book Review

Nancy Cartwright and Jeremy Hardie (2012), Evidence-Based Policy: A Practical Guide to Doing It Better. New York: Oxford University Press. £11.99, pp. 196, pbk

Eric Crettaz (2011), Fighting Working Poverty in Post-Industrial Economies: Causes, Trade-offs and Policy Solutions. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. £65, pp. 252, hbk.

Jason Edwards (ed.) (2012), Retrieving the Big Society. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell/Political Quarterly. £17.99, pp. 187, pbk

Guy Standing (2011), The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class. London: Bloomsbury Academic. £19.99, pp. 198, pbk.

Thomas Bahle, Vanessa Hubl and Michaela Pfeifer (2011), The Last Safety Net: A handbook of Minimum Income Protection in Europe, Bristol: Policy Press. £70, pp. 271, hbk.

Naomi Eisenstadt (2011), Providing a Sure Start: How Government Discovered Early Childhood. Bristol: Policy Press. £21.99, pp. 178, pbk.

Pat Thane and Tanya Evans (2012), Sinners? Scroungers? Saints?: Unmarried Motherhood in Twentieth-Century England, Oxford: Oxford University Press. £60, pp. 223, hbk

Colin Hay and Daniel Wincott (2012), The Political Economy of European Welfare Capitalism. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. £24.99, pp. 263, pbk

Iestyn Williams, Suzanne Robinson and Helen Dickinson (2012), Rationing in Health Care: The Theory and Practice of Priority Setting. Bristol: Policy Press. £21.99, pp. 159, pbk.

Judith A. Teichman (2012), Social Forces and States: Poverty and Distributional Outcomes in South Korea, Chile, and Mexico. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. £ 22.50, pp. 251, pbk

Peter Kraftl, John Horton and Faith Tucker (eds.) (2012), Critical Geographies of Childhood and Youth: Contemporary Policy and Practice. Bristol: Policy Press. £24.99, pp. 279, pbk

Stephen Bach and Ian Kessler (2012), The Modernisation of the Public Services and Employee Relations: Targeted Change, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. £29.99, pp. 213, pbk.

Clare Bambra (2011), Work, Worklessness and the Political Economy of Health. Oxford: Oxford University Press. £34.95, pp. 242, pbk.

Becky Pettit and Jennifer L. Hook (2012), Gendered Tradeoffs: Family, Social Politics and Economic Inequality in Twenty-One Countries, New York: Russell Sage Foundation. £19, pp. 236, pbk

Takeshi Hieda (2012), Political Institutions and Elderly Care Policy: Comparative Politics of Long-Term Care in Advanced Democracies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 297, hbk

Harris Beider (2012), Race, Housing and Community: Perspectives on Policy and Practice. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. £72.50, pp. 282, hbk.

Brian Nolan and Christopher T. Whelan (2011), Poverty and Deprivation in Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press. £55, pp. 275, hbk.

Şebnem Eroğlu (2011), Beyond the Resources of Poverty: Gecekondu Living in the Turkish Capital. Farnham: Ashgate. £60, pp. 284, hbk

Douglas Besharov and Kenneth Couch (eds.) (2012), Counting the Poor: New Thinking about European Poverty Measures and Lessons for the United States.New York: Oxford University Press and School of Public Policy, University of Maryland. £45, pp. 434, hbk

Gary Craig, Karl Atkin, Sangeeta Chattoo and Ronny Flynn (eds.) (2012), Understanding ‘Race’ and Ethnicity: Theory, History, Policy, Practice. Bristol: Policy Press. £22.99, pp. 312, pbk.

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