Policy Press: 559 books
Housing politics in the United Kingdom
Power, planning and protest
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
With rapid population growth, a long-term dearth in new housing construction, the emergence of ‘generation rent’ and rising homelessness, the issue of housing in the UK is considered complex, open-ended and intractable. Using insights from public choice theory, the new institutionalism and social...
by Bowie, Duncan
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
As housing supply in England reaches crisis point, Duncan Bowie provides a critical review of housing policy under successive UK governments. From Blair’s New Labour and Cameron’s Coalition government to the 2016 Housing and Planning Act, Bowie demonstrates how successive governments have failed...
A sharing economy
How social wealth funds can reduce inequality and help balance the books
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Britain is a society increasingly divided between the super-affluent and the impoverished. A Sharing Economy proposes radical new ways to close the growing income gap and spread social opportunities. Drawing on overseas examples, Stewart Lansley argues that mobilising the huge financial potential...
by Gilchrist, Alison, Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Interest in the topic of ‘community’ – and how local communities can be supported to take control of their lives, services and environment – continues to ride high on the public agenda in many parts of the world. Now in its second edition, this invaluable guide provides an introduction to...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
This wide-ranging edited volume provides a state of the art account of theory and research on modern street-level bureaucracy, gathering internationally acclaimed scholars to address the varying roles of public officials who fulfill their tasks while interacting with the public. These roles include...
Modernising social work
Critical considerations
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
New Labour's modernisation agenda has produced an avalanche of change that has posed formidable challenges for everyone involved in social work, whether as service users, practitioners or managers. Modernising Social Work provides a radical appraisal of the far-reaching changes in their theoretical,...
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Capitalism in crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Where has capitalism gone wrong? Why are advanced capitalist economies so sick and why do conventional policy solutions, such as reduced taxes and increased money supply, produce only wider income disparity and inequality? We now live in a new world in which we enjoy the highest living standard in...
The squeezed middle
The pressure on ordinary workers in America and Britain
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
As wages stagnate but living costs keep rising, the pressure on working people grows more intense. The issue of living standards has become one of the most urgent challenges for politicians in both Britain and America. 'The squeezed middle' brings together experts from both sides of the Atlantic to...
Credit crunch health care
How economics can save our publicly funded health services
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The credit crunch is a threat to publicly funded health care. World-leading health economist Cam Donaldson defends our systems on the same basis as those who seek to erode public services, namely, that of economic efficiency. However, protecting government funding of health care is not enough. Donaldson...
Locating localism
Statecraft, citizenship and democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Locating localism explores the development of localism as a new mode of statecraft and its implications for the practice of citizenship. Drawing on original research, Jane Wills highlights the importance of having the civic infrastructure and capacity to facilitate the engagement of citizens in local...
Affordable housing in US shrinking cities
From neighborhoods of despair to neighborhoods of opportunity?
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Given the rapid urbanisation of the world’s population, the converse phenomenon of shrinking cities is often overlooked and little understood. Yet with almost one in ten post-industrial US cities shrinking in recent years, efforts by government and anchor institutions to regenerate these cities...
Leading public sector innovation (second edition)
Co-creating for a better society
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
The second edition of this significant text has been thoroughly revised to take account of the latest literature, case studies and international developments in the field. Drawing on global research and practical examples, Bason illustrates the key triggers and practices of public sector innovation....
Critical geographies of childhood and youth
Contemporary policy and practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
This original book explores the importance of geographical processes for policies and professional practices related to childhood and youth. Contributors from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds explore how concepts such as place, scale, mobility and boundary-making are important for policies...
Achieving environmental justice
A cross-national analysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Environmental justice aspires to a healthy environment for all, as well as fair and inclusive processes of environmental decision-making. In order to develop successful strategies to achieve this, it is important to understand the factors that shape environmental justice outcomes. This optimistic,...