The State And Social Investigation In Britain And The United States

Author : Michael J. Lacey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521416382
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The State and Social Investigation in Britain and the United States written by Michael J. Lacey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-06-25 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains essays on the historical development of the knowledge base upon which public policies depend.

Author : Oz Frankel
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801888778
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book States of Inquiry written by Oz Frankel and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-07-21 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-nineteenth century, American and British governments marched with great fanfare into the marketplace of knowledge and publishing. British royal commissions of inquiry, inspectorates, and parliamentary committees conducted famous social inquiries into child labor, poverty, housing, and factories. The American federal government studied Indian tribes, explored the West, and investigated the condition of the South during and after the Civil War. Performing, printing, and then circulating these studies, government established an economy of exchange with its diverse constituencies. In this medium, which Frankel terms "print statism," not only tangible objects such as reports and books but knowledge itself changed hands. As participants, citizens assumed the standing of informants and readers. Even as policy investigations and official reportage became a distinctive feature of the modern governing process, buttressing the claim of the state to represent its populace, government discovered an unintended consequence: it could exercise only limited control over the process of inquiry, the behavior of its emissaries as investigators or authors, and the fate of official reports once issued and widely circulated. This study contributes to current debates over knowledge, print culture, and the growth of the state as well as the nature and history of the "public sphere." It interweaves innovative, theoretical discussions into meticulous, historical analysis.

Author : Benno Engels
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498585450
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poverty of Planning written by Benno Engels and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a neo-Marxian perspective, Benno Engels examines the absence of urban planning in nineteenth-century England. In his analysis of urbanization in England, Engels considers the influences of property owners, inheritance laws, local government structures, fiscal crises of the local and central state, shifts in voter sentiments, fluctuating economic conditions, and class-based pressure group activity.

Author : Martin Hewitt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000012212
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Social Knowledge in the Victorian City written by Martin Hewitt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the ‘ecology of knowledge’ of urban Britain in the Victorian period and seeks to examine the way in which Victorians comprehended the nature of their urban society, through an exploration of the history of Victorian Manchester, and two specific case studies on the fiction of Elizabeth Gaskell and the campaigns for educational extension which emerged out of the city. It argues that crucial to the Victorians’ approaches was the ‘visiting mode’ as a particular discursive formation, including its institutional foundations, its characteristic modes and assumptions, and the texts which exemplify it. Recognition of the importance of the visiting mode, it is argued, offers a fundamental challenge to established Foucauldian interpretations of nineteenthcentury society and culture and provides an important corrective to recent scholarship of nineteenth-century technologies of knowing.

Author : David Brady
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190493976
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty written by David Brady and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite remarkable economic advances in many societies during the latter half of the twentieth century, poverty remains a global issue of enduring concern. Poverty is present in some form in every society in the world, and has serious implications for everything from health and well-being to identity and behavior. Nevertheless, the study of poverty has remained disconnected across disciplines. The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty builds a common scholarly ground in the study of poverty by bringing together an international, inter-disciplinary group of scholars to provide their perspectives on the issue. Contributors engage in discussions about the leading theories and conceptual debates regarding poverty, the most salient topics in poverty research, and the far-reaching consequences of poverty on the individual and societal level. The volume incorporates many methodological perspectives, including survey research, ethnography, and mixed methods approaches, while the chapters extend beyond the United States to provide a truly global portrait of poverty. A thorough examination of contemporary poverty, this Handbook is a valuable tool for non-profit practitioners, policy makers, social workers, and students and scholars in the fields of public policy, sociology, political science, international development, anthropology, and economics.

Author : Mark Hendrickson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107028604
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Labor and Economic Citizenship written by Mark Hendrickson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-27 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the period from World War I to the Great Depression was an incubating era when innovative and lasting policy paradigms emerged.

Author : Jordanna Bailkin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520289471
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Afterlife of Empire written by Jordanna Bailkin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates how decolonization transformed British society in the 1950s and 1960s, and examines the relationship between the postwar and the postimperial.

Author : Oz Frankel
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801883408
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book States of Inquiry written by Oz Frankel and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-07-21 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Performing, printing, and then circulating these studies, government established an economy of exchange with its diverse constituencies. In this medium, which Frankel terms "print statism," not only tangible objects such as reports and books but knowledge itself changed hands. As participants, citizens assumed the standing of informants and readers."

Author : Nancy Christie
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802083210
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Engendering the State written by Nancy Christie and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of the modern social security state in Canada saw an ideological shift away from the mother and welfare entitlements based on family reproduction, and toward state policies that promoted men's paid labour in the workplace.

Author : Michael Nelson
Publisher : CQ Press
ISBN 13 : 1544317328
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Presidency and the Political System written by Michael Nelson and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by top-notch presidency scholars and carefully edited into a text-reader format, The Presidency and the Political System, Eleventh Edition showcases a collection of original essays focused on a range of topics, institutions, and issues relevant to understanding the American presidency.