Meaning in Action

This accessible book gives academics, graduate students, and researchers a comprehensive overview of the vast, varied, and often confusing landscape of interpretive policy analysis. It is both theoretically informed and clear and jargon-free as it discusses the specific strengths and weaknesses of different interpretive approaches--all with a practical orientation towards doing policy analysis

Meaning in Action: Interpretation and Dialogue in Policy Analysis

Politics & Social Sciences

Wagenaar, Hendrik

Social Sciences

Routledge

Lewis offers a radically different perspective on care of the mentally ill now that these patients are no longer isolated from society.This book is based on a series of interviews conducted with 313 Chicago area patients released from four different state hospitals. Rather than rely on retrospective data-gathering on patients at intake, Lewis began at the time of release, tracking the patients for 12 months during which they were interviewed twice. This approach permitted Lewis and his researchers to discover where the patients went, whom they turned to for help, how they viewed themselves and their illness, and how they fared.Former patients who had lost their homes and support networks by alienating families and employers ended up on the streets and eventually in jail. Half of the patients interviewed had criminal records, a third of them having committed felonies. Of the former patients who returned to mental institutions, 97 percent did so voluntarily. One-fifth of those recommitted themselves because they lacked jobs and housing.Lewis says the government can help by providing more welfare funding, medication aid, support to patients’ families, and homeless shelters with qualified counselors. "If we don’t do anything about the poverty, we can’t do anything about the mental illness. We must tie work and welfare to treatment settings."

Worlds of the Mentally Ill: How Deinstitutionalization Works in the City

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Reed, Susan

Lewis, Assistant Professor Dan A.

Riger, Professor Stephanie

Rosenberg, Ms. Helen

Lurigio, Associate Professor Arthur J.

Psychology & Counseling

Southern Illinois University Press

<p>Most discussions about approaches to regulating prostitution occur at the national level—battles, for example, between prohibition and legalization. In reality, however, the impact of prostitution is felt most keenly at the local level, and it is local measures that can have the greatest effect. This book explores various approaches to regulating prostitution and other sex work at the local level, analyzing their aims and outcomes and offering guidance on designing effective regulations through available policy instruments.</p>

Designing Prostitution Policy: Intention and Reality in Regulating the Sex Trade

Amesberger, Helga

Altink, Sietske

Sociology

Policy Press

The Pandemic Within: Policy Making for a Better World

<p>COVID-19 has exposed defects in our current political-economic order: extreme wealth inequality, an ideology-driven government, a greedy corporate sector, a precarious labour force and a looming climate catastrophe. This accessible book offers a unique blend of moral imagination and social-political analysis to overcome these defects. It focuses on two characteristics of contemporary societies - hegemony and complexity - that have inhibited our ability to imagine, and take seriously, better practices and institutions.Considering housing, work, governance, finance, climate change and more, this book presents feasible and pragmatic solutions which are informed by a comprehensive vision of a flourishing, sustainable and richly democratic society.</p>

Business & Money

Prainsack, Barbara

Economics

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