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unusual facts about social policy


Social policy

Other significant examples in the development of social policy are the Bismarckian welfare state in 19th century Germany, social security policies introduced under the rubric of the New Deal in the United States between 1933 and 1935, and health reforms in Britain following the Beveridge Report of 1942.


Andreas Khol

A member of A.V. Raeto-Bavaria Innsbruck, a Catholic fraternity that belongs to the Cartellverband, Andreas Khol is known to be religious and has often voiced conservative opinions on social policy.

Josef Weidenholzer

Josef Weidenholzer (*6. March 1950 in Sankt Florian am Inn) is Professor of Social Policy and since 1998 Director of the Institute for Social Policy at the Johannes Kepler University Linz.

Monique Jérôme-Forget

She has been heavily involved in the community, working for the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, la Cinematheque Québécoise, the Quebec federation for the environment, the Social policies committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Medical Council of Canada and the Société investissement jeunesse.

Party of Italian Communists

Fausto Bertinotti had kept the party in alliance with The Olive Tree coalition for two years, but was leaving because of disagreement over social policy.


see also

Centre for Research in Social Policy

The Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP) is a self-funding autonomous research centre based within the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, in the East Midlands, England.

Drew Halfmann

"Wage wars: Institutional politics, WPA wages, and the struggle for US social policy." American Sociological Review 65(4):506-528

Edgardo Buscaglia

Dr. Buscaglia received his legal post-doctoral training in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at the University of California at Berkeley Law School.

Ellie Lee

Dr. Ellie Lee is a senior lecturer in social policy at the University of Kent in Kent, United Kingdom.

Fraser by-election, 1997

John Langmore had held the seat of Fraser since the 1984 election, but resigned to take up the post of Director of the Division for Social Policy and Development at the United Nations.

Hannah Moscovitch

Her father, Allan Moscovitch, is a social policy professor at Carleton University.

Kristin Luker

Luker has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Sociological Research Association, and was invited to the White House by President Bill Clinton to discuss issues of politics and social policy.

Martha Van Rensselaer

In 1930, she played a leadership role in the White House Conference on Child Health and Protection, which set a critical Progressive Era agenda for youth health, social policy, and education.

Martin Potůček

Than he studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science (receiving a M.Sc. in European Social Policy, 1991) and took part in numerous professional fellowship and exchange programs, including Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships in the U.S. (1992), at the Oxford University (1993–1994), at the University of Konstanz (1997–2000), at the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna (1998) and at the CEU in Budapest (1998–2000).

Neil deMause

Neil deMause (born November 19, 1965 in Manhattan, New York) is a Brooklyn-based freelance journalist who writes for books, magazines, and newspapers on mainly New York City's social policy issues.

Northwestern University Settlement House

Advocates of the Settlement movement such as Samuel Barnett and Arnold Toynbee in the UK, and Lilian Wald, Harriet Vittum, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Jane Addams in the U.S., influenced the social policy arena.

Organ gifting

The concept of gifting with regards to body parts or fluids was first analyzed by Richard Titmuss in his book titled The Gift Relationship: from Human Blood to Social Policy.

Richard Titmuss

He is honoured in the Richard Titmuss Chair in Social Policy at the LSE, which is currently held by Julian Le Grand.

Shirley Hoy

Her high school was completed at Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute, after which she went on to earn a master's degree in public administration from Queen's University, and a Master's Degree in Social Work (Social Policy) from the University of Toronto.

Spanish order of precedence

## The Minister of Health, Social Policy and Equality - Ana Mato

Swedish general election, 2006, computer infringement affair

The same day Lars Leijonborg and the Party social policy spokesperson Erik Ullenhag present their counter-report.

Tim Newburn

He was president of the British Society of Criminology from 2005-2008, director of the Mannheim Centre for Criminology from 2003-2008 and is currently head of the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Volksgemeinschaft

The modern German historian Detlev Peukert wrote of his view of National Socialist social policy as:“ The goal was an utopian Volksgemeinschaft, totally under police surveillance, in which any attempt at nonconformist behaviour, or even any hint or intention of such behaviour, would be visited with terror”.

War as metaphor

James Childress describes the use of war as a metaphor as a dilemma: "In debating social policy through the language of war, we often forget the moral reality of war."