Exploring the World of Social Policy

An International Approach
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4473-3499-6
Verlag: Policy Press

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 620 g

This bold new textbook represents a significant step forward in social policy teaching by combining comparative and global perspectives.

Introducing readers to a wide spread of international challenges and issues, the book shows how insights into policy can be generated using a comparative and multidisciplinary approach. Global in its canvas and analytical in its method, the book:

• explores the economic, social and political contexts of social policy;

• examines in detail its institutions and fields of practice;

• illustrates the field’s main ideas, themes and practices, drawing on a rich international literature and using pertinent and thought-provoking examples.

Authored by two highly respected and experienced academics, this book demonstrates the rewards of studying social policy from an international perspective by avoiding the constraints of a single-nation focus. Clear, authoritative and wide-ranging, it will be essential reading for students of social sciences taking courses covering social policy, social welfare and comparative policy analysis.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hill, Michael

Irving, Zoë

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Fragen & Probleme
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Social policy and social progress: how can we explore the world?

Part I: Themes and perspectives

Inequalities and why they matter

Varieties of welfare

Policy processes

Part II: Policy domains

Income Security

Work and employment

Education

Housing

Health

Social care

Environment

Conclusion: a divided world of social policy?

Über Autor(innen)

Irving, Zoë
Dr Zoe Irving is a Senior Lecturer at the University of York and a member of the Executive Committee of the UK Social Policy Association. Published works surrounding Social Policy, gender employment and economic crises.

Hill, Michael
Michael Hill is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at Newcastle University and a Visiting Professor at the University of Brighton. Having written on many aspects of the policy process and social policy, he is author of The Public Policy Process, Implementing Public Policy (with Peter Hupe), Understanding Social Policy (with Zoë Irving) and editor of Studying Public Policy (2014). In 2009 he was given the Social Policy Association’s lifetime award.

Michael Hill is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at Newcastle University.

Zoë Irving is Reader in Comparative and International Social Policy at the University of York.