Social Policy category: 9249 books
Islam and the Everyday World
Public Policy Dilemmas
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
This is a new examination of how Shari’a law affects public policy both theoretically and in practice, across a wide range of public policy areas, including for example human rights and family law.
The process by which public policy is decided - through elections, debates, political processes,...
Frontline Delivery of Welfare-to-Work Policies in Europe
Activating the Unemployed
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Welfare-to-work or activation policies refer to programmes aimed at promoting the employability, labour-market and social participation of benefit recipients of working age. Frontline workers delivering these policies are conceived of as policy implementers, as policy makers, and as actors mediating...
Transforming Children's Mental Health Policy into Practice
Lessons from Virginia and Other States' Experiences Creating and Sustaining Comprehensive Systems of Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
This book examines the long term impact of service reform in children’s mental health, focusing on comprehensive state and local initiatives to improve care for children with serious behavioral health and their families to illustrate how programmatic and contextual forces influence policy and practice...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
The study of death has the capacity to bring together a range of policy areas. Yet death is often overlooked within policy debates in the UK and beyond, and within gerontology. Bringing together a range of scholars engaged in policy associated with death, this collection provides a holistic account...
Agenda for Social Justice
Solutions for 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
The Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions for 2016 provides accessible insights into some of the most pressing social problems in the United States and proposes public policy responses to those problems. Written by a highly respected team of authors brought together by the Society for the Study of...
Japan's Emerging Youth Policy
Getting Young Adults Back to Work
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
From the 1960s onwards, Japan’s rapid economic growth coincided with remarkably smooth transitions from school to work and with internationally low levels of youth unemployment. However, this changed dramatically in the 1990s, and by the 2000s, youth employment came to be recognized as a serious...
In Our Hands
The Struggle for U.S. Child Care Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
A call for better child care policies, exploring the reasons why there has been so little headway on a problem that touches so many families.
Working mothers are common in the United States. In over half of all two-parent families, both parents work, and women’s paychecks on average make...
Latinos and the Economy
Integration and Impact in Schools, Labor Markets, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
At 15.4 percent of the population, Latinos are the largest minority group in the United States. They are a growing presence in all sectors of the economy, play an increasingly important role in government and politics, and are influential across a wide range of cultural domains. Despite the growing...
by Bill Jordan, Mark Drakeford
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
What has the contemporary financial context meant for social policy, social work and the relationship between them? Examining the role of political, economic and societal forces, this lively book uses a full range of supportive features to encourage reflection on the impact of austerity on different social groups, social work and social care.
U.S. Social Welfare Reform
Policy Transitions from 1981 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
U. S. Social Welfare Reform examines pivotal changes in social welfare for low-income families in the United States between 1981, the advent of the Reagan administration, and 2008, the end of the G.W. Bush administration. It focuses on the change from the Federal-state open entitlement Aid to Families...
Producing Health Policy
Knowledge and Knowing in Government Policy Work
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
In this book Jo Maybin draws on rare access to the inner-workings of England's Department of Health to explore what kinds of knowledge civil servants use when developing policy, how they use it and why. Combining ethnographic data with insights from psychology, socio-linguistics, sociology and philosophy,...
Gun Violence Prevention?
The Politics Behind Policy Responses to School Shootings in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
This book examines the gun-related policy responses to three school shooting incidents in the United States. Gun violence prevention activists and others involved in policy making were interviewed for the book, and news media articles and policy documents were critically assessed. As a result,...
Transforming Childcare and Listening to Families
Policy in Wales and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
This book draws on original research to consider the connections between childcare, family lives and social policy. The research, located in Wales in the period following devolution, concerns the capacity of policy to enhance family well-being. In interviews with mothers and fathers of young children,...
Political Social Work
Using Power to Create Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2017
This social work book is the first of its kind, describing practical steps that social workers can take to shape and influence both policy and politics. It prepares social workers and social work students to impact political action and subsequent policy, with a detailed real-world framework for turning...