Social policy
Fighting poverty, inequality and injustice
A manifesto inspired by Peter Townsend
This important book brings together many of the leading contributors in the field and provides a compelling manifesto for change in social justice.
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Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2011
This edition of Social Policy Review presents an extensive analysis of the coalition government's social policies and is essential reading for social policy academics and students and for anyone who is interested in the implications of government policy.
Transforming the Dutch welfare state
Social risks and corporatist reform
This comprehensive study demonstrates the dramatic changes that have taken place in the protection of old and new social risks, exploring the mechanisms behind these changes in the context of corporatist welfare state institutions.
Family futures
Childhood and poverty in urban neighbourhoods
Based on a unique longitudinal study, this timely book examines the initiatives introduced to help families and the impacts on them, their future prospects and the implications for policy.
Personalising public services
Understanding the personalisation narrative
This book focuses on how personalisation - the idea that public services should be tailored to the individual, with budgets devolved to the service user or frontline staff - evolved as a policy narrative and has mobilised wide-ranging political support.
Social policy in challenging times
Economic crisis and welfare systems
Bringing together a range of expert contributions, this book is the first to address the relationship between the economic crisis and social policy within an international context. The key lesson to emerge is that 'the crisis' is better understood as a variety of crises, each mediated by national context.
Fair play
A Daniel Dorling reader on social justice
Encompassing an extensive range of print and online media, this reader brings together a selection of highly influential writings by Danny Dorling which look at inequality and social justice.
Reinventing social solidarity across Europe
This valuable collection is the first to identify how social solidarity across Europe is being re-invented from below and redefined from above.
Democracy under Attack
How the Media Distort Policy and Politics
A unique insider's perspective of news production in Britain which gives readers a flavour of what goes on in news rooms, pressure groups, departmental policy divisions and parliament.
Changing social equality
The Nordic welfare model in the 21st century
Taking a comparative perspective, this book casts new light on the changing inequalities in Europe.
Social Happiness
Theory into Policy and Practice
An examination of the achievements and potential of applied happiness scholarship in diverse cultures and domains, arguing that progressive policies require a substantial and explicit consideration of happiness.
Migration and Welfare in the New Europe
Social Protection and the Challenges of Integration
Providing innovative insights, this book moves the debate on migration and integration policies in the enlarged European Union and its member states onto new terrain.