Policy Press: 559 books
by Ball, Stephen J.
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Since the second edition of this book, the education debate has fiercened. Education policy must ensure economic productivity and competitiveness, but in recent years, debates about its contribution to the worsening of social inequality, particularly in relation to grammar schools, have become increasingly...
Obama and the biracial factor
The battle for a new American majority
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Since the election in 2008 of Barack Obama to the Presidency of the United States there have been a plethora of books, films, and articles about the role of race in the election of the first person of color to the White House. None of these works though delves into the intricacies of Mr. Obama's biracial...
Policy for play
Responding to children's forgotten right
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Play is fundamental to children’s health, wellbeing and development. Yet in the modern world, their space and opportunity to play is under threat. This is the first book to look in detail at children’s play within public policy. Using the UK government’s play strategy for England (2008-10) as...
Commissioning for health and well-being
An introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Commissioning is now a key task for health and social care - and yet policy aspirations often outstrip the infrastructure needed to support commissioners as they take difficult decisions about future services and to make commissioning a career of choice for future leaders. While commissioning was...
Healthcare in transition
Understanding key ideas and tensions in contemporary health policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Health policy thinking must change. This book explores the fundamental currents and tensions that lie behind recent trends such as shared decision-making, co-production, and personalisation. These are often discussed in relation to an epidemiological transition but this text argues that they embody...
Veiled threats
Representing the Muslim woman in public policy discourses
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
As Muslim women continue to be a focus of media-led debate, Naaz Rashid uses original scholarship and empirical research to examine how Muslim women are represented in policy discourse and how the trope of the Muslim woman is situated within national debates about Britishness, the death of multiculturalism...
Race, gangs and youth violence
Policy, prevention and policing
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
This book aims to challenge current thinking about serious youth violence and gangs, and their racialisation by the media and the police. Written by an expert with over 14 years’ experience in the field, it brings together research, theory and practice to influence policy. Placing gangs and urban...
by Hunter, David J.
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Health care systems everywhere face multiple pressures from changing demography, the rise of non-communicable disease, the growing demand on health services, and limited resources at a time of austerity. Focusing on the British NHS from a political science perspective, this second edition of this...
Tracing the political
Depoliticisation, governance and the state
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Over the past two decades politicians have delegated many political decisions to expert agencies or ‘quangos’, and portrayed the associated issues, like monetary or drug policy, as technocratic or managerial. At the same time an increasing number of important political decisions are being removed...
Religion and faith-based welfare
From wellbeing to ways of being
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
This original book makes a timely and potentially controversial contribution both to the teaching of social policy and the wider debates surrounding it in Britain today. It offers a critical and theoretically sensitive overview of the role of religious values, actors and institutions in the development...
Partnership working 2e
What is integrated care and how can we deliver it?
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
UK health and social care are increasingly being asked to work together across traditional agency boundaries. Although this sounds easy in theory, doing it in practice is complicated and difficult. In many cases, moreover, current training programmes, research and textbooks are even more divided than...
Safeguarding older people from abuse
Critical contexts to policy and practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
The mistreatment of older people is increasingly recognised internationally as a significant abuse of elders’ human rights. ‘Scandals’ and inquiries into the failure to protect older people from abuse in health and social care systems rarely address, and still less challenge, the social, economic...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Many European cities have a shortage of good quality, affordable housing, but this problem has become less prominent in policy than it should be. This timely book aims to redress that balance. After an introductory chapter, expert contributors provide contemporary comparative accounts of housing renewal...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
This unique book brings together, for the first time, advocates and critics of the personalisation agenda in English social care services to debate key issues relating to personalisation. Perspectives from practitioners, service users and academics come together to give an account of the practicalities...