Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

社会政策のためのガバナンスと公共経営ハンドブック
Baehler, Karen J. (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Governance and Public Management for Social Policy. 930 pp. 2023:1 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <686-361>
ISBN 978-0-19-091632-9 hard ¥40,964.- (税込) US$ 190.00 *

Current knowledge about the public social welfare sphere is vast, but fragmented. Boundaries defined by geography, language, and culture hinder knowledge exchange globally. In addition, there are not enough opportunities for explorers of the field's two conceptual hemispheresDLsocial policy and social administrationDLto share insights across disciplinary boundaries. The Oxford Handbook of Governance and Management for Social Policy seeks to overcome these obstacles by applying multiple administrative lenses to diverse social policy issues from around the globe. Authors were carefully chosen by editors based in Africa, Asia, Australasia, Canada and the United States, Europe, and Latin America to detail the challenges facing their regions' social welfare spheres and the ways in which social systems have responded. Each main section of the handbook profiles the state of interdisciplinary knowledge in a geographic region during the decades spanning the turn of the millennium. Sub-sections of the handbook are organized thematically to enable inter-regional comparisons and spark insights across socio-cultural and academic boundaries. The result is a map of the intersection of social policy, governance studies, and public management on the eve of the COVID-19 global pandemic on all six of our planet's continuously inhabited continents. Starting in 2020, the pandemic and related crises forced adaptations to social welfare systems in every part of the world, with implications that may not be understood for generations. Future researchers will describe and measure such changes relative to benchmarks set in the pre-pandemic period, including the rich variety of practices and paradigms collected in this handbook.

Dalingwater, Louise / Boullet, Vanessa et al. (eds.), The Unequal Costs of Covid-19 on Well-being in Europe. (Human Well-Being Research and Policy Making) 195 pp. 2022:11 (Springer, GW) <686-362>
ISBN 978-3-031-14424-0 hard ¥20,005.- (税込) EUR 84.99

This volume focuses on the wider wellbeing costs within European countries as a result of the outbreak of the pandemic and the control measures implemented thereafter. In particular, it considers to what extent Covid-19 and measures taken to cope with the crisis have weakened economic and social structures across Europe and what effect this has had on people's lives. While many countries in Europe have reallocated public funding to health care, provided support to SMEs, vulnerable populations and regions hit by the crisis, the wellbeing or welfare costs, considered broadly, are still significant. The authors' assessment thus goes beyond the subjective wellbeing discourse and evaluates to what extent structural weaknesses within economic, social and regional frameworks have deepened. The chapters discuss what policies are needed to address these weaknesses. the volume thus recognises that structural inequalities are a key driver of wellbeing. While there have been a number of publications on wellbeing during the pandemic, the original perspective in each chapter on inequalities and the European focus of this publication provide novel information and insights on the topic.

ケアと日常生活におけるロボット
Engel, Uwe (ed.), Robots in Care and Everyday Life: Future, Ethics, Social Acceptance. (SpringerBriefs in Sociology) 133 pp. 2022:10 (Springer, GW) <686-363>
ISBN 978-3-031-11446-5 paper ¥7,058.- (税込) EUR 29.99 *

This open access book presents detailed findings about the ethical, legal, and social acceptance of robots in the German and European context. The key resource is the Bremen AI Delphi survey of scientists and politicians and a related population survey. The focus is on trust in robotic assistance, human willingness to use this assistance, and the expected personal well-being in human-robot interaction. Using recent data from Eurostat, the European Social Survey, and the Eurobarometer survey, the analysis is extended to Germany and the EU. The acceptance of robots in care and everyday life is viewed against their acceptance in other contexts of life and the scientific research. The book reports on how the probability of five complex future scenarios is evaluated by experts and politicians. These scenarios cover a broad range of topics, including the worst-case scenario of cutthroat competition for jobs, the wealth promise of AI, communication in human-robot interaction, robotic assistance, and ethical and legal conflicts. International economic competition alone will ensure that countries invest sustainably in the future technologies of AI and robots. But will these technologies also be accepted by the population? The book raises the core issue of how governments can gain the needed social, ethical, and user acceptance of AI and robots in everyday life. This highly topical book is of interest to researchers, professionals and policy makers working on various aspects of human-robot interaction. This is an open access book.

トランスナショナルなソーシャル・プロテクション
Levitt, Peggy / Dobbs, E. / Sun, K. C.-Y. et al., Transnational Social Protection: Social Welfare across National Borders. 224 pp. 2023 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <686-365>
ISBN 978-0-19-766682-1 hard ¥21,344.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *
ISBN 978-0-19-766683-8 paper ¥6,681.- (税込) US$ 30.99 *

Argues that a new set of transnational social welfare arrangements has emerged that challenge traditional social welfare provision based on national citizenship and residence. The idea that social rights are something we are eligible for based on where we live or where we are citizens is out-of-date. In Transnational Social Protection, Peggy Levitt, Erica Dobbs, Ken Chih-Yan Sun, and Ruxandra Paul consider what happens to social welfare when more and more people live, work, study, and retire outside their countries of citizenship where they receive health, education, and elder care. The authors use the concept of resource environment to show how migrants and their families piece together packages of protections from multiple sources in multiple settings and the ways that these vary by place and time. They further show how a new, hybrid transnational social protection regime has emerged in response to the changing environment that complements, supplements, or, in some cases, substitutes for national social welfare systems as we knew them. Examining how national social welfare is affected when migration and mobility become an integral part of everyday life, this book moves our understanding of social protection from the national to the transnational.

Stauber, Barbara / Walther, Andreas et al. (eds.), Doing Transitions in the Life Course: Processes and Practices. (Life Course Research and Social Policies 16) 252 pp. 2022:10 (Springer, GW) <686-367>
ISBN 978-3-031-13511-8 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99
ISBN 978-3-031-13514-9 paper ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This open access book provides a unique research perspective on life course transitions. Here, transitions are understood as social processes and practices. Leveraging the recent "practice turn" in the social sciences, the contributors analyze how life course transitions are "done." This book introduces the concept of "doing transitions" and its implications for theories and methods. It presents fresh empirical research on "doing transitions" in different life phases (e.g., childhood, young adulthood, later life) and life domains (e.g., education, work, family, health, migration). It also emphasizes themes related to institutions and organizations, time and normativity, materialities (such as bodies, spaces, and artifacts), and the reproduction of social inequalities in education and welfare. In coupling this new perspective with empirical illustrations, this book is an indispensable resource for scholars from demography, sociology, psychology, social work and other scientific fields, as well as for students, counselors and practitioners, and policymakers.

M.Torry著　グローバルなベーシック・インカムの議論の諸相
Torry, Malcolm, Basic Income - What, Why, and How?: Aspects of the Global Basic Income Debate. (Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee) 231 pp. 2022:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-368>
ISBN 978-3-031-14247-5 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

The global Basic Income debate is now widespread, diverse, and relatively well resourced by academic and more popular literature: but that does not mean that there is universal agreement about every topic of discussion. In fact, there is still a quite heated debate about some of the most basic questions, such as 'What is a Basic Income?' 'What's the point?', and 'Is it feasible?'This book is not yet another general introduction to Basic Income. There are already plenty of those. It is entirely about those aspects of the debate about which there is most discussion and sometimes the most conflict. It is based on conference papers, previously published chapters, and other previously published articles, working papers, and reports: material that has already benefited from consultation and debate, as is appropriate for a book about aspects of a debate that are the subject of frequent consultation and discussion.

R.レヤード他著　ウェルビーイング－科学と政策
Layard, Richard / De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel, Wellbeing: Science and Policy. 350 pp. 2023:2 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <686-228>
ISBN 978-1-00-929892-6 hard ¥22,792.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00 *
ISBN 978-1-00-929894-0 paper ¥6,549.- (税込) GB￡ 22.99 *

What produces a happy society and a happy life? Thanks to the new science of wellbeing, we can now answer this question using state-of-the-art empirical evidence. This transforms our ability to base our decisions on the outcomes that matter most, namely the wellbeing of us all including future generations. Written by two of the world's leading experts on the economics of wellbeing, this book shows how wellbeing can be measured, what causes it and how it can be improved. Its findings are profoundly relevant to all social sciences, including psychology, economics, politics, behavioural science and sociology. A field-defining text on a new science that aims to span the whole of human life, this will be an invaluable resource for undergraduate and graduate students, policy-makers and employers, who can apply its insights in their professional and private lives. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Nakray, Keerty / Yi, Zhang / Clammer, John et al. (eds.), Social and Economic Transitions in China and India: Welfare and Policy Changes. 345 pp. 2022:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-276>
ISBN 978-981-19-6123-6 hard ¥37,660.- (税込) EUR 159.99

This book conducts a comparative analysis of social and economic changes in the welfare state transformations in China and India, at national and sub-national levels. Discussions are made based on impacts from the social and economic changes in the last century and the fourth industrial revolution on welfare state transformations in China and India, the world's two largest countries in terms of population and density.First-hand empirical work is conducted by a group of scholars from India and China, which draws on inter-disciplinary and cross-cultural academic traditions to deepen social, cultural and legal understanding between the two countries.This book would appeal to undergraduate and graduate students in comparative sociology, political science, law and comparative welfare studies as well as researchers in these fields, as well as researchers in policy think-tanks and research institutes and officials in government and non-governmental organizations.