International and comparative social policy
Internationalizing Social Work Education
Insights From Leading Figures Across the Globe
A historical and contextual account of how social work education became widely adopted in different national and cultural environments.
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).
Austerity, Community Action, and the Future of Citizenship in Europe
Exploring secular and faith-based grassroots social action in Germany and the UK, this book provides new ways of thinking about social and political belonging and about the relations between individual, collective and State responsibility.
Reframing Global Social Policy
Social Investment for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth
Christopher Deeming and Paul Smyth, together with internationally renowned contributors, illustrate how the merging of ‘social investment’ and ‘inclusive growth and development’ agendas, together with the environmental imperative of ‘sustainability’, is forging an important new social policy framework and shaping a new global development agenda.
Work and Health in India
This interdisciplinary work connects the transformation of India’s labour market with changes in health and health problems to offer an analysis that is unprecedented in scope and depth.
Local Knowledge Matters
Power, Context and Policy Making in Indonesia
This book explores the critical role that local knowledge plays in public policy processes as well as its role in the co-production of policy relevant knowledge with the scientific and professional communities.
Implementing Innovative Social Investment
Strategic Lessons from Europe
Brings the regional and local to the forefront of social investment debates by showcasing original, evaluative evidence from ten European countries, and provides practical, accessible illustrations of good practice, routes to success, and lessons learned.
Media and Governance
Exploring the Role of News Media in Complex Systems of Governance
First published as a special issue of Policy & Politics, this book considers the impact of media-related factors on governance, policy, public accountability and the attribution of blame for failures.
Parental Leave and Beyond
Recent International Developments, Current Issues and Future Directions
This volume provides an international perspective on parental leave policies in different countries, goes beyond this to examine a range of issues in depth, and aims to stimulate thinking about possible futures and how policy might underpin them.
Welfare, Populism and Welfare Chauvinism
In a time of increasing inequality, why has there been a recent surge of support for political parties who promote an anti-welfare message? Using a mixed methods approach and newly released data, this book aims to answer this question and to show possible ways forward for welfare states.
Social Policy and the Capability Approach
Concepts, Measurements and Application
This book explores the advantages of the capability approach and offers a way forward in addressing conceptual and empirical issues as they apply specifically to social policy research and practice.
Dualisation of Part-Time Work
The Development of Labour Market Insiders and Outsiders
This book brings together leading international authors from a number of fields to provide an up to date understanding of part-time work at national, sector, industry and workplace levels.