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Sheila Shaver
Researcher at University of New South Wales
Publications - 32
Citations - 967
Sheila Shaver is an academic researcher from University of New South Wales. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social policy & Welfare state. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 32 publications receiving 961 citations.
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States, Markets, Families: Gender, Liberalism and Social Policy in Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the United States
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the impact of changes in social policy regimes on gender roles and relations, focusing on three key policy areas: labor markets, income maintenance and reproductive rights.
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Body rights, social rights and the liberal welfare state:
TL;DR: In this article, the interplay of abortion rights, politics and services in the liberal welfare states of Australia, Britain, Canada and the United States is explored. And the relationship between liberalism and gender, and the distinction between abortion as a medical entitlement and a "body right" is discussed.
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The Recognition of Wifely Labour by Welfare States
Sheila Shaver,Jonathan Bradshaw +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the value of the support supplied by the tax/benefit packages of 15 countries in terms of the difference between the net disposable income of a single person and a couple with the same earnings.
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States, Markets, Families: States, Markets, Families
TL;DR: In this article, a comparative analysis of policies relating to labour markets, income maintenance and regulation of reproduction in Australia, Canada, Britain and the United States identified significant similarities in policy orientation but also some noteworthy differences across the four countries.
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Australian Welfare Reform: From Citizenship to Supervision
TL;DR: The authors argue that welfare is being transformed from a limited social right to support provided on condition, and from treating the claimant as a sovereign individual to a subject of paternalistic supervision, and that these changes are redefining the meaning of equality in Australian social citizenship.