Social Policy category: 9249 books
Exploring welfare debates
Key concepts and questions
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
Visually and pedagogically rich, this wide-ranging introduction to key concepts and debates in welfare uses an innovative, question-based narrative to highlight the importance of theory to understanding welfare. In particular, it: • Introduces concepts that are core to how policy is formulated and...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
This fully updated and expanded edition of the bestselling Student’s Companion to Social Policy charts the latest developments, research, challenges, and controversies in the field in a concise, authoritative format.
Provides students with the analytical base from which to investigate and evaluate...
What's Your Problem?
Making Sense of Social Problems and the Policy Process
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
This lively book provides an essential introduction to the critical analysis of social problems and the policy process. It argues that policy does not just have an impact of people’s lives, but that people can and should have an impact on policy.
Rather than assuming that social policies...
Reframing global social policy
Social investment for sustainable and inclusive growth
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Christopher Deeming and Paul Smyth together with internationally renowned contributors propose that the merging of the ‘social investment’ and ‘inclusive growth and development’ agendas is forging an unprecedented global social policy framework. The book shows how these key ideas together...
by James J. Rice, Michael J. Prince
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
A consistent bestseller since its publication in 2000, Changing Politics of Canadian Social Policy is a one-of-a-kind resource in the fields of political science and social work. Examining current conditions affecting the development of social policies in Canada, this book offers in-depth critical...
Aging in China
Implications to Social Policy of a Changing Economic State
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
China, which is fast on its way to becoming the most powerful economic force in the world, has four unique characteristics that distinguish it from other countries in Asia: (1) The proportion of aging population is growing faster than that of Japan (the country previously recognized as having the...
Social Investment
A New Zealand Policy Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
The idea of social investment has obvious intuitive appeal. But is it robust? Is it built on sound philosophical principles and secure analytical foundations? Will it deliver better outcomes?
For almost a decade, the idea of social investment has been a major focus of New Zealand policy-making...
by Kuhner, Stefan, Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
This fully updated edition of an essential introductory text offers a concise guide to the key structures and concepts in social policy and is now supplemented by unique and innovative digital content that adds depth and provides a truly integrated way of learning. It is accompanied by a digital app,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
This book examines how and where psychology can engage itself in the framing of social policies for national as well as human development in India. Although the role that psychological knowledge can play in informing social policy decisions has been discussed for a long time, psychologists by and...
Managing Social Change and Social Policy in Greater China
Welfare Regimes in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
East Asia is at the heart of the global economic transformation, and the countries of the region are witnessing rapidly changing labour markets, alongside the pressure to cut production costs and lower taxes in order to become successful ‘competition states’. These changes have resulted in increased...
The Politics of Welfare State Transformation in Germany
Still a Semi-Sovereign State?
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
How can we best analyse contemporary welfare state change? And how can we explain and understand the politics of it? This book contributes to these questions both empirically and theoretically by concentrating on one of the least likely cases for welfare state transformation in Europe. It analyzes...
by Michael J. Prince, James J. Rice
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2000
No one is content with the state of health and social programs in Canada today. The Right thinks that there is too much government involvement, and the Left thinks there is not enough. In Changing Politics of Canadian Social Policy James Rice and Michael Prince track the history of the welfare state...
Social policy in times of austerity
Global economic crisis and the new politics of welfare
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The 2008 global economic crisis was unprecedented in living memory and its impact on economic and social life immense. Large-scale social policy interventions played a crucial role in helping to mediate the crisis, and yet the welfare state continues to come under attack. A new age of austerity, based...
Innovations in Child and Family Policy
Multidisciplinary Research and Perspectives on Strengthening Children and Their Families
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
Innovations in Child and Family Policy tackles many of the common problems and challenges that are considered to be at the heart of child and family policy: family creation, economic support, childrearing, and family care-giving. Innovations begins by defining child and family policy and discussing...