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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Race Policy and Multiracial Americans is the first book to look at the impact of multiracial people on race policies—where they lag behind the growing numbers of multiracial people in the U.S. and how they can be used to promote racial justice for multiracial Americans. Using a critical mixed race...
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...
Understanding social security 3e
Issues for policy and practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
The political and economic landscape of UK social security provision has changed significantly since the 2008 financial crisis. This fully revised, restructured and updated 3rd edition of a go-to text book covers all the key policy changes and their implications since the elections of 2010 and 2015....
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....
Social policy in an era of competition
From global to local perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Welfare states globally have been subjected to reform agendas that have stressed economic competitiveness but how has global competition reshaped welfare states in practice? Providing a new cross-national and international narrative this book captures the complexity of social policy reform process...
Vulnerability and young people
Care and social control in policy and practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The notion of 'vulnerability' is now a prominent motif in social policy in the UK and beyond, with important implications for those deemed 'vulnerable'. Yet the effects of recalibrating welfare and criminal justice processes on the basis of vulnerability often escape attention. This distinctive book...
Adult lives
A life course perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
With the proportion of people between young adulthood and the third age growing in relation to children and young people in western industrialised societies, there is an increasing need for a comprehensive look at the past, present and future of adult lives. These adult lives are defined by the experience...
Social experiences of breastfeeding
Building bridges between research, policy and practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2018
This book brings together international academics, policy makers and practitioners to build bridges between the real-world and scholarship on breastfeeding. It asks the question: How can the latest social science research into breastfeeding be used to improve support at both policy and practice level,...
Collaboration in public policy and practice
Perspectives on boundary spanners
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Collaborative working is an established feature of the public, business and third sector environments, but its effectiveness can be hampered by complex structural and personal variants. This original book explores the influence of agency through the role of individual actors in collaborative working...
The Right to Buy?
Selling off public and social housing
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
The Right to Buy has had a massive impact on Housing in the UK for 35 years and in 2015 there were proposals to extend it. But what is the Right to Buy policy, how has it developed and what has its impact been? What evidence is there about the wider and unintended consequences of the policy? How are...
Global child poverty and well-being
Measurement, concepts, policy and action
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Child poverty is a central and present part of global life, with hundreds of millions of children around the world enduring tremendous suffering and deprivation of their most basic needs. Despite its long history, research on poverty and development has only relatively recently examined the issue...
Legalising drugs
Debates and dilemmas
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2010
Government policy has steadfastly been against drug legalisation, but increasingly critics have argued that this is unsustainable. This book is a timely examination of the issues this raises. Numerous suggestions have been offered. Some seek complete legalisation, others a more modified form, yet...
Substance not spin
An insider's view of success and failure in government
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Why does policy succeed or fail? Nick Raynsford, a former MP, Minister and campaigner, tells us how it looks from the front line of policymaking. Based on his vast personal experience at the very heart of government and the voluntary sector, Raynsford explores what works and what doesn’t in making...
by Gunter, Helen M.
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Western politicians consider that leadership is essential for the delivery of educational reform. This important and timely book examines how leaders, leading and leadership became the dominant theme in education. It presents an analysis of the relationship between the state, public policy and the...