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The Student's Companion to Social Policy


The Student's Companion to Social Policy


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von: Pete Alcock, Tina Haux, Margaret May, Sharon Wright

29,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 17.06.2016
ISBN/EAN: 9781118965962
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 600

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<p>This fully updated and expanded edition of the bestselling <i>Student’s Companion to Social Policy</i> charts the latest developments, research, challenges, and controversies in the field in a concise, authoritative format.</p> <ul> <li>Provides students with the analytical base from which to investigate and evaluate key concepts, perspectives, policies, and outcomes at national and international levels</li> <li>Features a new section on devolution and social policy in the UK; enhanced discussion of international and comparative issues; and new coverage of ‘nudge’-based policies, austerity politics, sustainable welfare, working age conditionality, social movements, policy learning and transfer, and social policy in the BRIC countries</li> <li>Offers essential information for anyone studying social policy, from undergraduates on introductory courses to those pursuing postgraduate or professional programmes</li> <li>Accompanied by updated online resources to support independent learning and skill development with chapter overviews, study questions, guides to key sources and career opportunities, a key term glossary, and more</li> <li>Written by a team of experts working at the forefront of social policy</li> </ul>
<p>Introduction</p> <p><b>Part I Concepts and Approaches</b></p> <p>1. What is Social Policy?<br /> <i>Pete Alcock</i></p> <p>2. Researching Social Policy<br /> <i>Saul Becker and Pete Alcock</i></p> <p>3. Social Needs, Social Problems, Social Welfare and Wellbeing<br /> <i>Nick Manning</i></p> <p>4. Equality and Social Justice<br /> <i>Peter Taylor-Gooby</i></p> <p>5. Human Rights and Equality<br /> <i>Deidre Flanigan and Alison Hosie</i></p> <p>6. Efficiency, Equity and Choice<br /> <i>Carol Propper</i></p> <p>7. Citizenship<br /> <i>Peter Dwyer</i></p> <p>8. Changing Behaviour<br /> <i>Jessica Pykett</i></p> <p><b>Part II Key Perspectives</b></p> <p>9. Neo-liberalism <br /> <i>ick Ellison</i></p> <p>10. The Conservative Tradition<br /> <i>Hugh Bochel</i></p> <p>11. Social Democracy<br /> <i>Robert Page</i></p> <p>12. Socialist Perspectives<br /> <i>Hartley Dean</i></p> <p>13. Feminist Perspectives<br /> <i>Shona Hunter</i></p> <p>14. Social Movements<br /> <i>Louisa Parks</i></p> <p>15. Post-Modernist Perspectives<br /> <i>Tony Fitzpatrick</i></p> <p><b>Part III Historical Context</b></p> <p>16. Nineteenth Century Beginnings<br /> <i>Bernard Harris</i></p> <p>17. The Liberal Era<br /> <i>Noel Whiteside</i></p> <p>18. The Post-War Welfare State<br /> <i>Robert Page</i></p> <p>19. Crisis, Retrenchment and Neo-Liberalism<br /> <i>Howard Glennerster</i></p> <p>20. Modernisation and the Third Way<br /> <i>Martin Powell</i></p> <p>21. Austerity Politics<br /> <i>Jay Wiggan</i></p> <p><b>Part IV Devolution and Social Policy in the UK</b></p> <p>22. Social Policy and Devolution<br /> <i>Richard Parry</i></p> <p>23. Social Policy in Northern Ireland<br /> <i>Ann Marie Gray and Derek Birrell</i></p> <p>24. Social Policy in Scotland<br /> <i>Lynne Poole</i></p> <p>25. Social Policy in Wales</p> <p>Paul Chaney</p> <p><b>Part V Contemporary Context and Challenges</b></p> <p>26. The Demographic Challenge<br /> <i>Jane Falkingham and Athina Vlachantoni</i></p> <p>27. The Economic Context<br /> <i>Kevin Farnsworth and Zoe Irving</i></p> <p>28. The Sustainability Challenge<br /> <i>Tony Fitzpatrick</i></p> <p>29. The Role of Religion<br /> <i>Rana Jawed</i></p> <p>30. The Distribution of Welfare<br /> <i>John Hills</i></p> <p>31. Divisions and Difference<br /> <i>Sharon Wright</i></p> <p>32. ‘Race’, Minority Ethnic Groups and Social Welfare<br /> <i>Lucinda Platt</i></p> <p>33. Poverty and Social Exclusion<br /> <i>Pete Alcock</i></p> <p><b>Part VI Welfare Production and Provision</b></p> <p>34. State Welfare<br /> <i>Catherine Bochel</i></p> <p>35. Commercial Welfare<br /> <i>Christopher Holden</i></p> <p>36. Occupational Welfare<br /> <i>Edward Brunsdon and Margaret May</i></p> <p>37. Voluntary Welfare<br /> <i>Jeremy Kendall</i></p> <p>38. Informal Welfare<br /> <i>Linda Pickard</i></p> <p>39. Welfare Users and Social Policy<br /> <i>Catherine Needham</i></p> <p>40. Paying for Welfare<br /> <i>Howard Glennerster</i></p> <p>41. Taxation and Welfare<br /> <i>Stuart Adam and Barra Roantree</i></p> <p><b>Part VII Welfare Governance</b></p> <p>42. The Policy Process<br /> <i>Hugh Bochel</i></p> <p>43. Managing and Delivering Welfare<br /> <i>Ian Greener</i></p> <p>44. Accountability for Welfare<br /> <i>Jackie Gulland</i></p> <p>45. Local Governance<br /> <i>Guy Daly and Howard Davis</i></p> <p>46. The European Union<br /> <i>Linda Hantrais</i></p> <p><b>Part VIII Welfare Domains</b></p> <p>47. Social Security<br /> <i>Karen Rowlingson and Stephen McKay</i></p> <p>48. Employment<br /> <i>Alan Whitworth and Eleanor Carter</i></p> <p>49. Health Care<br /> <i>Rob Baggott</i></p> <p>50. Public Health<br /> <i>Rob Baggott</i></p> <p>51. Education in Schools<br /> <i>Anne West</i></p> <p>52. Lifelong Learning and Training<br /> <i>Claire Callender</i></p> <p>53. Housing<br /> <i>David Mullins</i></p> <p>54. Social Care<br /> <i>Jon Glasby</i></p> <p>55. Criminal Justice<br /> <i>Tim Newburn</i></p> <p><b>Part IX Experiencing Welfare</b></p> <p>56. Working Age Conditionality<br /> <i>Ruth Patrick</i></p> <p>57. Family Policies<br /> <i>Tina Haux</i></p> <p>58. Children<br /> <i>Tess Ridge</i></p> <p>59. Young People<br /> <i>Bob Coles and Aniela Wenham</i></p> <p>60. Older People<br /> <i>Kate Hamblin</i></p> <p>61. Disability<br /> <i>Mark Priestley</i></p> <p>62. Migrants and Asylum Seekers<br /> <i>Majella Kilkey</i></p> <p><b>Part X International and Comparative Context</b></p> <p>63. Comparative Analysis<br /> <i>Margaret May</i></p> <p>64. Policy Learning and Transfer<br /> <i>John Hudson</i></p> <p>65. Social Policy in Europe<br /> <i>Jochen Clasen and Daniel Clegg</i></p> <p>66. Social Policy in the USA<br /> <i>Scott L. Greer and Philip M. Singer</i></p> <p>67. Social Policy in East Asia<br /> <i>Misa Izuhara</i></p> <p>68. Social Policy in the BRICS countries<br /> <i>Rebecca Surender</i></p> <p>69. Social Policy in the Middle East and North Africa<br /> <i>Rana Jawad</i></p> <p>70. Social Policy in Developing Societies<br /> <i>Patricia Kennett</i></p> <p>71. Globalism and International Organisations<br /> <i>Nicola Yeates</i></p> <p>Appendix: The Social Policy Association (SPA)</p>
<b>Pete Alcock</b> is Professor of Social Policy and Administration at the University of Birmingham, UK. He has been teaching and researching in social policy for forty years. From 2003-2008, he was Head of the School of Social Sciences at Birmingham, from 2008-2014 he was Director of the Third Sector Research Centre (TSRC), and since 2013 he has been Director of the University’s ESRC Doctoral Training Centre. He is author and editor of a number of leading books on social policy including <i>Social Policy in Britain </i>(4<sup>th</sup> edition, 2014)<i>, Welfare Theory and Development</i> (4 volumes, 2011), <i>International Social Policy: Welfare Regimes in the Developed World </i>(2<sup>nd</sup> edition, 2009), and <i>Understanding Poverty </i>(3<sup>rd</sup> edition, 2006).His research has covered the fields of poverty and anti-poverty policy, social security, and the role of the UK third sector.<br /> <p><b>Tina Haux</b> is Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Kent, UK, and a member of the Qstep team at Kent. Her main research interests are family policy, welfare-to-work, social justice, evidence-based policy-making and, increasingly, longitudinal research methods. She is the author of the forthcoming book <i>The Impact of Social Policy Scholars</i> (2017).</p> <p><b>Margaret May</b> is Honorary Research Fellow in Social Policy and a member of the Centre for Household Asset and Savings Management (CHASM) at the University of Birmingham, UK. A past chair of the Social Policy Association, she has been teaching and researching in social policy for over thirty years and has edited and co-authored a number of leading books in the field, including <i>Social Policy in Britain</i> (fourth edition, 2014) and <i>The Blackwell Dictionary of Social Policy</i> (Blackwell, 2002)<i>. </i>Her research interests include occupational and private welfare, employment policy, and human resource management.</p> <b>Sharon Wright</b> is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, where she teaches social and public policy, specializing in the policy process; policy, politics and power; and work, welfare, and the politics of reform.  Her international research interests are in the lived experiences of poverty, social security, welfare reform, and the implementation of employment services at street-level.  She is co-editor of <i>Understanding Inequality, Poverty and Wealth: Policies and Prospects</i> (2008), and is currently conducting a major new study entitled ‘Welfare Conditionality:  Sanctions, Support, and Behaviour Change’.
<p>This fully updated and expanded edition of the bestselling <i>Student’s Companion to Social Policy</i> charts the latest developments, research, challenges, and controversies in the field in a concise, authoritative format. Written by a team of experts working at the forefront of social policy, it provides students with the analytical base from which to investigate and evaluate key concepts, perspectives, policies, and outcomes in the UK and beyond. <br /><br />The fifth edition now features a new section on devolution and social policy in the UK, and an enhanced discussion of international and comparative issues. It also includes new coverage of ‘nudge’-based policies, austerity politics, sustainable welfare, working age conditionality, social movements, policy learning and transfer, and social policy in the BRIC countries. As with previous editions, it sets the standard for textbooks in social policy by providing essential information for anyone studying social policy - from undergraduates on introductory courses to those pursuing postgraduate or professional programmes. It is a resource to which students will turn again and again throughout their studies. </p> <p>The updated website to accompany the book features a variety of resources to facilitate independent learning and skill development, including chapter overviews, study questions, guides to key sources and career opportunities, a key term glossary, and more.</p>

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