Politics and Public Policy
Public Policy is one of our core strengths with series including the International Library of Policy Analysis and New Perspectives in Policy & Politics.
We also have a range of valuable public policy textbooks including Studying public policy: An international approach, edited by Michael Hill, and Public management in transition: The orchestration of potentiality, edited by Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen and Justine Grønbæk Pors. Inspection copies are available for these and all our textbooks.
Our politics publishing, in conjunction with the Bristol University Press imprint, includes high-profile titles from authors such as Peter Hain, Nick Raynsford and Patrick Diamond.
Don't miss our related journal Policy & Politics which contains many articles of interest in this area.
Social Movements and Referendums from Below
Direct Democracy in the Neoliberal Crisis
Social movements formed in response to austerity measures have played an increasingly important role in referendums. The book uses unique case studies to illustrate the ways the social movements have affected the referendums’ dynamic and results. It also addresses the way in which participation from below has had a transformative impact.
Did the Millennium Development Goals Work?
Meeting Future Challenges with Past Lessons
Leading scholars and practitioners from a range of backgrounds and regions use area-specific case studies to critically assess the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) project and its impact.
The Political Economy of the Irish Welfare State
Church, State and Capital
A fascinating interpretation of the evolution of social policy in modern Ireland, as the product of a triangulated relationship between church, state and capital.
American Tianxia
Chinese Money, American Power and the End of History
After a meteoric rise, China's growth has come to a screeching halt. Salvatore Babones provides an up-to-date assessment of how China's economic problems are undermining its challenge to the Western-dominated world order. He tells how liberal individualism has become the leitmotif of American Tianxia.
Minority Women and Austerity
Survival and Resistance in France and Britain
EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Bassel and Emejulu explore minority women’s experiences of austerity measures in France and Britain. They demonstrate how they use their race, class, gender and legal status for collective action in the face of the neoliberal colonisation.
Obama’s Welfare Legacy
An Assessment of US Anti-Poverty Policies
Using new research, Anne Daguerre examines Obama’s legacy on welfare and antipoverty policies, focusing in particular on the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
Hungry Britain
The Rise of Food Charity
Drawing on empirical research with the UK’s two largest Food Banks, this book explores the prolific rise of food charity over the last 15 years and its implications for overcoming food insecurity.
What Kind of Democracy Is This?
Politics in a Changing World
Has there ever been a period in modern history when democratic politics seemed more unpredictable or unruly? Matthew Flinders ranges expertly across architecture, art, fell running and fairy tales in an attempt to understand the emerging democratic landscape. This refreshing and stimulating book seeks to provoke and inform in equal measure.
Social Policy in an Era of Competition
From Global to Local Perspectives
Providing a new cross-national and international narrative on how global competition has reshaped welfare states this book captures the complexity of social policy reform process that have taken place over the past 25 years.
Paying for the Welfare State in the 21st Century
Tax and Spending in Post-Industrial Societies
Amid urgent debates around the function of welfare in the post-industrial 21st Century, and how we pay for it, David Byrne and Sally Ruane deploy the concepts and analytical tools of Marxist political economy to better understand recent developments, and the possibilities they present for social change.
Reimagining the Nation
Togetherness, Belonging and Mobility
This book develops new ways of thinking beyond the nation as a form of political community by transcending ethnonational categories of ‘us’ and ‘them’. Drawing on scholarship and cases spanning Pacific Asia and Europe, it provides a constructive agenda for critical nationalism studies.