Social Policy category: 9249 books
Arguments for Welfare
The Welfare State and Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
This book makes the case for the welfare state. Nearly every government in the developed world offers some form of social protection, and measures to improve the social and economic well-being of its citizens. However, the provision of welfare is under attack. The critics argue that welfare states...
All our welfare
Towards participatory social policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
The UK welfare state is under sustained ideological and political attack. It has also been undermined by accusations of paternalism and past failures to engage with the very people it is intended to help. This unique book is the first to critique the past, present and future welfare state from a participatory...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
By examining the role of evidence in social policymaking and the extent of its influence, Evidence and Evaluation in Social Policy delves deeply into one of the central questions of the field for the last 20 years.
Chronicles the trend towards evidence-based policy over the last decade
Assesses...
The Human Right to Housing in the Face of Land Policy and Social Citizenship
A Global Discourse Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
This book explores the human right to housing, presenting the findings of a global discourse analysis to analyse the right to housing from the perspective of theories on land policy and social citizenship. The book concludes that planners and policy makers will not be able to completely fulfil the...
Research and policy in ethnic relations
Compromised dynamics in a neoliberal era
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
In the field of ethnic relations the complex, often tortuous, interactions among academic researchers, research funders and those who use the research often result in social policy interventions that are poorly conceived and flawed in their implementation. In this unique book, the contributors seek...
Social policy in challenging times
Economic crisis and welfare systems
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
There is no precedent to the current economic crisis which looks set to redefine social policy debate throughout the globe. But its effects are not uniform across nations. Bringing together a range of expert contributions, the key lesson to emerge from this book is that 'the crisis' is better understood...
Trading time
Can exchange lead to social change?
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Welfare reform in the wake of austerity has fostered increased interest in self-help initiatives within the community sector. Amongst these, time banking, one of a number of complementary currency systems, has received increasing attention from policy makers as a means for promoting welfare reform....
Health Care Politics, Policy, and Services, Third Edition
A Social Justice Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
This AJN award-winning textbook helps readers understand and critically assess the US health care system and policies.
This AJN award-winning textbook helps readers understand and critically assess the US health care system and policies. With a focus on the prevalence of disparities in health...
The Politics of the Personal in Feminist Family Therapy
International Examinations of Family Policy
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Address the issues vital for women and their families
To be most effective, family therapists need to understand precisely what policies are in place and how they influence families and their relationships. The Politics of the Personal in Feminist Family Therapy: International Examinations...
China's Development
Social Investment and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
China has made remarkable yet uneven progress in social development. This book analyses China's achievements and problems in social development from the perspective of social investment. Social investment has gained popularity in Europe as a new social policy paradigm. It seeks to use government budget...
Creating and Implementing Public Policy
Cross-sectoral debates
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
In order to address major social policy problems, governments need to break down sectoral barriers and create better working relationships between practitioners, policymakers and researchers. Currently, major blockages exist, and stereotypes abound. Academics are seen as out-of-touch and unresponsive,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
This book analyzes how recent welfare state transformations across advanced democracies have shaped social and economic disparities. The authors observe a trend from a compensatory paradigm towards supply oriented social policy, and investigate how this phenomenon is linked to distributional outcomes....
Welfare Theory
An Introduction to the Theoretical Debates in Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
What are the concepts and principles that underpin the design and delivery of social policies?
This thoroughly revised edition of a trusted text provides an authoritative introduction to the theoretical framework of social policy. Drawing upon the fields of politics, sociology and philosophy,...
Democracy under attack
How the media distort policy and politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Malcolm Dean, The Guardian newspaper’s longstanding chief monitor of social affairs, expertly indicts his own trade through a series of seven case studies on the influence of media on social policy. Drawing on four decades of top-level Whitehall briefings, topped up by interviews with 150 policy-makers,...