Social Policy category: 9249 books
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,...
Human Judgment and Social Policy
Irreducible Uncertainty, Inevitable Error, Unavoidable Injustice
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 1996
From the O.J. Simpson verdict to peace-making in the Balkans, the critical role of human judgement--complete with its failures, flaws, and successes--has never been more hotly debated and analyzed than it is today. This landmark work examines the dynamics of judgement and its impact on events that...
New Policies for New Residents
Immigrants, Advocacy, and Governance in Japan and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
In recent decades, many countries have experienced both a rapid increase of in-migration of foreign nationals and a large-scale devolution of governance to the local level. The result has been new government policies to promote the social inclusion of recently arrived residents. In New Policies for...
by M. Pawar
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Manohar Pawar discusses the relevance and importance of social policy for water issues. By analysing several interrelated perspectives on water, he suggests core values as bases for formulating and implementing social policies so as to provide universal free access to safe drinking water for all, particularly for the most poor and disadvantaged.
Austerity Policies
Bad Ideas in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
This book takes up the problems of social policy, state intervention and support in the hard times of austerity introduced by the Coalition government 2010-15, and continued under the Conservative government today. At a time when the economy is growing and pay levels finally rising, the necessity...
The Altruistic Imagination
A History of Social Work and Social Policy in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Social work and social policy in the United States have always had a complex and troubled relationship. In The Altruistic Imagination, John H. Ehrenreich offers a critical interpretation of their intertwined histories, seeking to understand the problems that face these two vital institutions in American...
Show Me the Evidence
Obama's Fight for Rigor and Results in Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
The first comprehensive history of the Obama administration's evidence-based initiatives. From its earliest days, the Obama administration planned and enacted several initiatives to fund social programs based on rigorous evidence of success. Ron Haskins and Greg Margolis tell the story of six-spanning...
Past Judgement
Social Policy in New Zealand History
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Appreciating New Zealand's distinctive social policy history is important in formulating future social policies. This is one of the premises in Past Judgement: Social Policy in New Zealand History, which brings together recent research on a range of social policy contexts.
Social Policy in the Federal Republic of Germany
The Constitution of the Social
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
This book investigates the history of the post-war welfare state in Germany and its normative foundations, with special emphasis on constitutional issues. The author, formerly Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Social Law, Munich, and President of the Max-Planck-Society,...
Children’s Online Behaviour and Safety
Policy and Rights Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
This book explores the use of technology in young people’s social lives against a backdrop of “online safety measures” put in place by the UK government to ensure safe and risk free engagement with online services. The UK landscape is used as a case study to compare the grass roots of digital...
Social Policy in East and Southeast Asia
Education, Health, Housing and Income Maintenance
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Social Policy in East and South East Asia provides the first systematic comparison of the policy sectors of income maintenance, health, housing and education in Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. It focuses particularly on the provision and financing arrangements of these four Asian newly...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
While in the past family life was characterised as a "haven from the harsh realities of life", it is now recognised as a site of vulnerabilities and a place where care work can go unacknowledged and be a source of social and economic hardship. This book addresses the strong relationships...
Women, Work, and Poverty
Women Centered Research for Policy Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Find out how welfare reform has affected women living at the poverty level
Women, Work, and Poverty presents the latest information on women living at or below the poverty level and the changes that need to be made in public policy to allow them to rise above their economic hardships. Using...
The shame of it
Global perspectives on anti-poverty policies
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
The shame experienced by people living in poverty has long been recognised. Nobel laureate and economist, Amartya Sen, has described shame as the irreducible core of poverty. However, little attention has been paid to the implications of this connection in the making and implementation of anti-poverty...