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

困難な時代における西欧と組織化された福祉の提供
Bode, Ingo, The Fate of Social Modernity: Western Europe and Organised Welfare Provision in Challenging Times. 480 pp. 2024 (E. Elgar, UK) <716-401>
ISBN 978-1-03-533121-5 hard ¥41,470.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

This thoroughly original book provides a comprehensive overview of the development of welfare arrangements and their wider context in Western Europe. Using the concept of social modernity, Ingo Bode investigates current challenges to these arrangements and examines prospects for progressive welfare reform.Adopting a sociological perspective, The Fate of Social Modernity dissects the complex layers of welfare agreements and assesses their potential for promoting socially balanced societies. Ingo Bode outlines how both public programmes and involved welfare organisations addressing children, disadvantaged workers, or elderly people may prompt yet also hamper processes of social development. He also explains how insights into social dynamics in European countries, such as Germany, Italy, Norway, and the UK, may contribute to a better understanding of problems and opportunities elsewhere in the world.This foundational book is a crucial read for scholars in the fields of comparative social policy, sociological theory, and organization studies. It will also be of benefit to practitioners in public administration and non-profit sector studies seeking to better understand the chemistry of social development.

B.グリーヴ他編　社会政策の政治経済ハンドブック
Greve, Bent / Moreira, Amilcar / van Gerven, Minna (eds.), Handbook on the Political Economy of Social Policy. (Elgar Handbooks in Social Policy and Welfare) 336 pp. 2024:5 (E. Elgar, UK) <716-402>
ISBN 978-1-0353-0648-0 hard ¥52,910.- (税込) GB￡ 185.00 *

Research in social policy has been greatly influenced by the emergence of modern political economy in the late 1970s. The Handbook on the Political Economy of Social Policy offers a systematic, yet comprehensive, framework for understanding how concepts, theoretical standpoints and methodological approaches stemming from political economy have been applied to the study of social policies, and models of welfare provision. The authors also signpost current developments and discuss their likely impact on future research.With contributions from leading scholars in social policy, political science and political economy, The Handbook explores the key theoretical standpoints for understanding how social policies are introduced and/or reformed. These include historical institutionalism, the role of ideas, the influence of political parties and of political attitudes and preferences. The contributors also discuss key methodological approaches for understanding how social policies are adopted and how they change - from the case-study approach to more comparative approaches. Analysis of the applications of political economy approaches within social policy covers housing, welfare, labour relations and pensions as well as examining regional cases from across the globe.Offering a comprehensive overview of the current state of scholarship on the political economy of social policy, this Handbook will be crucial reading for scholars and students of social policy, welfare state analysis, area studies, political science, political economy and sociology.

政策の力－過去、現在、未来
Kahn, Jessica, The Power of Policy: The Past, Present, and Future. 392 pp. 2024:5 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <716-403>
ISBN 978-0-19-755923-9 paper ¥18,790.- (税込) US$ 84.99 *

The Power of Policy: The Past, Present and Future is a historically-organized core textbook that identifies thematic connections between the history of U.S. social welfare policy and issues related to today's social welfare environment, with an eye toward the future. Key historical developments demonstrate how history has influenced today's institutions, laws, and systems.

ユニバーサル・ベーシック・インカム
Widerquist, Karl, Universal Basic Income. (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series) 264 pp. 2024:2 (MIT Pr., US) <716-404>
ISBN 978-0-262-54689-8 paper ¥3,746.- (税込) US$ 16.95 *

An accessible introduction to the simple (yet radical) premise that a small cash income, sufficient for basic needs, ought to be provided regularly and unconditionally to every citizen.The growing movement for universal basic income (UBI) has been gaining attention from politics and the media with the audacious idea of a regular, unconditional cash grant for everyone as a right of citizenship. This volume in the Essential Knowledge series presents the first short, solid UBI introduction that is neither academic nor polemic. It takes a position in favor of UBI, but its primary goal remains the provision of essential knowledge by answering the fundamental questions about it: What is UBI? How does it work? What are the arguments for and against it? What is the evidence?Karl Widerquist discusses how UBI functions, showing how it differs from other redistributional approaches. He summarizes the common arguments for and against UBI and presents the reasons for believing it is a tremendously important reform. The book briefly discusses the likely cost of UBI; options for paying for it; the existing evidence on the probable effects of UBI; and the history of UBI from its inception more than two hundred years ago through the two waves of support it received in the twentieth century to the third and largest wave of support it is experiencing now. Now more than ever, conditions in much of the world are ripe for such enthusiasm to keep growing, and there are good reasons to believe that this current wave of support will eventually lead to the adoption of UBI in several countries around the world-making this volume an especially timely and necessary read.