De plus en plus, nos sociétés sont marquées par des bouleversements qui remettent en cause nos repères. Les phénomènes liés à la mondialisation, la multiplication des tentatives de démocratisation, les changements des formes de protection sociale ou la diversification des formes de participation politique nous obligent à nous interroger sur la pertinence des catégories d’analyse traditionnelles que sont l’État, le développement ou encore la démocratie. Comprendre, dans l’espace et dans le ...

This title was first published in 2000: The contributors to this fully documented volume address the debate surrounding the nature, impact and desirability of the complex set of phenomena collectively referred to as 'globalization'. The book breaks new ground by showing globalization in a wide range of areas, including national and transnational corporations, welfare policies, adoption, gendered politics and democratic institutions, citizenship, religion and judicial systems. It is also a ...

Absent Mandate develops the crucial concept of policy mandates, distinguished from other interpretations of election outcomes, and addresses the disconnect between election issues and government actions. Emphasizing Canadian federal elections between 1993 and 2015, the book examines the Chretien/Martin, Harper, and Trudeau governments and the campaigns that brought them to power. Using data from the Canadian Election Studies and other major surveys, Absent Mandate documen...

Regions Apart: The Four Societies of Canada and the United States provides an invaluable social, cultural, and political comparison of the two countries that share the world's longest undefended border. General readers and students alike will find Regions Apart an insightful analysis of how and why Americans and Canadians differ, not only from each other but from region to region within each country. Recognizing the inevitability of the comparison - at least for Canadians! - the authors explo...

Christopher Deeming and Paul Smyth together with internationally renowned contributors propose that the merging of the ‘social investment’ and ‘inclusive growth and development’ agendas is forging an unprecedented global social policy framework. The book shows how these key ideas together with the environmental imperative of ‘sustainability’ are shaping a new global development agenda.This framework opens the way to a truly global social policy discipline making it essential readin...

Regions Apart: The Four Societies of Canada and the United States provides an invaluable social, cultural, and political comparison of the two countries that share the world's longest undefended border. General readers and students alike will find Regions Apart an insightful analysis of how and why Americans and Canadians differ, not only from each other but from region to region within each country. Recognizing the inevitability of the comparison - at least for Canadians! - the authors explo...

Designed to help readers make connections between foundational concepts and clinical application, Applied Anatomy and Physiology for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, 2nd Edition, integrates pathology content into the study of each system underlying speech and hearing. This unique approach ensures that students see the “big picture” while learning the basic science of anatomy and physiology alongside the art and science of communication disorders. The second edition features enhance...

Jenson loses his tail is a story of two rescue dogs who live in Adelaide, Australia. Jenson has an extremely short tail and thinks he must have lost a long one . He thinks there is something wrong with him as he is not like the other dogs. He and his sister ,Ivy go in search of his tail through the Australian bush . They meet lots of other native animals along the way. They are unsuccesful in finding Jenson's tail and so return home only to discover that there is indeed nothing wrong with ...

Jenson loses his tail is a story of two rescue dogs who live in Adelaide, Australia. Jenson has an extremely short tail and thinks he must have lost a long one . He thinks there is something wrong with him as he is not like the other dogs. He and his sister ,Ivy go in search of his tail through the Australian bush . They meet lots of other native animals along the way. They are unsuccesful in finding Jenson's tail and so return home only to discover that there is indeed nothing wrong with ...

The word “mother” traditionally meant a woman who bears and nurtures a child. In recent decades, changes in social norms and public policy as well as advances in reproductive technologies and the development of markets for procreation and care have radically expanded definitions of motherhood. But while maternity has become a matter of choice for more women, the freedom to make reproductive decisions is unevenly distributed. Restrictive policies, socioeconomic disadvantages, cultural mores...

The word “mother” traditionally meant a woman who bears and nurtures a child. In recent decades, changes in social norms and public policy as well as advances in reproductive technologies and the development of markets for procreation and care have radically expanded definitions of motherhood. But while maternity has become a matter of choice for more women, the freedom to make reproductive decisions is unevenly distributed. Restrictive policies, socioeconomic disadvantages, cultural mores...

This was first published in 2000: This work is founded on the premise that many analyses of economic restructuring and of gender relations fail to recognize two things. First, the situation facing women is different from that of the 1960s when the conceptual apparatuses for analyzing "women and work" were created. Labour markets are dominated by flexible, non-standard work, precarious contractual relations and income disparities. Therefore, it is difficult to structure political claims or ...