Policy Press: 559 books
Blinded by science
The social implications of epigenetics and neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
In recent years, new areas of biology, especially epigenetics and neuroscience, have enthralled the public imagination. They have been used as powerful arguments for developing social policy in a particular direction, from early intervention in the lives of disadvantaged children to seeking 'biomarkers'...
by Henricson, Clem
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
With an increasingly bitter secular religious divide, there is a messy, defective relationship between the state and morality in the UK. In response, Morality and Public Policy puts forward proposals to enhance the capacity of public policy to respond more effectively to morality and associated shifts...
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,...
Local knowledge matters
Power, context and policy making in Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book explores the critical role that local knowledge plays in public policy processes as well as its role in the co-production of policy relevant knowledge with the scientific and professional communities. The authors consider the mechanisms used...
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...
Delivering social welfare
Governance and service provision in the UK
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
As the system of governance and delivery of social welfare in the UK radically changes, this important new book argues that the extent of this change is such that it could be considered a fundamental transformation or even a revolution. It shows how a new public governance perspective has replaced...
Social policy in a cold climate
Policies and their consequences since the crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Social Policy in a Cold Climate offers a data-rich, evidence-based analysis of the impact Labour and coalition government policies have had on inequality and on the delivery of services such as health, education, adult social care, housing and employment in the wake of the greatest recession of our...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Since the early 1990s, long-term care policies have undergone significant transformations across OECD countries. In some countries these changes have responded to the introduction of major policy reforms while in others, significant transformations have come about through the accumulation of incremental...
by Junemann, Carolina, Ball
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
The public sector is going through a period of fundamental change. Service delivery, policy making and policy processes are being carried out by new actors and organisations with new interests, methods and discourses, related to the emergence of new forms of governance. This timely book from bestselling...
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...
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...
Transforming adult social care
Contemporary policy and practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Adult social care has emerged as a distinct policy area in the UK and one which has come under increasing scrutiny by government and other bodies. With the expectation that in future many more adults will need care and support, ideas have emerged about a ‘transformation’ of adult social care....
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Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
It has long been assumed that religion is in decline in the West: however it continues to have an important yet contested role in individual lives and in society at large. Furthermore half a century or so in which religion and belief were barely talked about in public has resulted in a pressing lack...
After urban regeneration
Communities, policy and place
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
After Urban Regeneration is a comprehensive study of contemporary trends in urban policy and planning. Leading scholars come together to create a key contribution to the literature on gentrification, with a focus on the history and theory of community in urban policy. Engaging with debates as to how...