Social Policy category: 9249 books
Public Policy Making in the Western Balkans
Case Studies of Selected Economic and Social Policy Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Developing and ‘transition’ economies face myriad challenges in their attempts to achieve and maintain political stability and foster the economic growth essential for national security, the social well-being of current citizens and sustainable environments for future generations. Governments...
Voluntary Organisations and Social Policy in Britain
Perspectives on Change and Choice
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
The last two decades of the twentieth century saw the most fundamental changes in British social policy since the creation of the welfare state in the 1940s. From Margaret Thatcher's radical reassessment of the role of the state to Tony Blair's 'Third Way', the voluntary sector has been at the heart...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
This thoroughly updated new edition provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary social policy, and addresses its historical, theoretical and contextual foundations. Divided into four sections, it opens with a survey of the socio-economic, political and governmental contexts within which...
by Shirley Gatenio Gabel
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
This brief resource sets out a rights-based framework for policy analysis that allows social workers to enhance their long-term vision as well as their current practice. It introduces the emerging P.A.N.E. (Participation, Accountability, Non-discrimination, Equity) model for evaluating social policy,...
Social and Economic Policies in Korea
Ideas, Networks and Linkages
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
The sustained remarkable economic growth in the East Asian countries - Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore - has brought about a great deal of debate over the role of the state in the market and society. Shin analyses the dynamic process of state interventions in the economy and social...
International Social Policy
Welfare Regimes in the Developed World 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2009
The second edition of this textbook provides an accessible and structured look at social policy in a global comparative context. With detailed explanations of the historical, political and social context of policy developments across thirteen nations, the book offers an authoritative picture of social...
Social Policy Reform in China
Views from Home and Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This title was first published in 2003.The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is a timely example of social policy reform in a socialist market economy. This important and topical edited collection brings together leading Chinese and Western experts to introduce and integrate policy issues of the...
Double Standard
Social Policy in Europe and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
In Double Standard, James W. Russell shows how and why different models of social and welfare policy developed in the United States and Europe. The fourth edition has been revised and updated throughout to reflect recent political developments that are having significant policy consequences, including...
Global social policy in the making
The foundations of the social protection floor
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
The global economic crisis continue to dominate headlines, yet measures to build a social floor under the global economy and reform global governance have received little attention. In 2012 the Social Protection Floor was adopted as a global social policy measure ensuring that all could have access...
Social happiness
Theory into policy and practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
The development of happiness as an explicit theme in social research and policy worldwide has been rapid and remarkable, posing fundamental questions about our personal and collective motives and purposes. This book examines the achievements and potential of applied happiness scholarship in diverse...
Social policies and social control
New perspectives on the 'not-so-big society'
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Drawing on a wide array of policy domains and events, this book provides an innovative account of social control and behaviourism within welfare systems and social policies, and the implications for disadvantaged groups. This accessible collection reviews the controls, assumptions and persuasions...
European Social Policy and Social Work
Citizenship-Based Social Work
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
European Social Policy and Social Work explores shifts in international social policies and how they affect national trends and thus the context for social work practice.
The book discusses international and national social work strategies and practice and investigates the responsibilities...
Introduction to social policy analysis
Illuminating welfare
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
In this distinctive introduction Stephen Sinclair illuminates the subject of Social Policy by showing readers how Social Policy analysts think about welfare issues and policies. From what influences the decision to have children to how everyday terms such as ‘youth crime’ or ‘poverty’ reveal...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Available in paperback for the first time, this milestone work offers an in-depth treatment of all aspects of the discipline and practice of social policy globally. Supported by a distinguished international advisory board, the editors have compiled almost 900,000 words across 734 entries written...