Social Policy Review provides students, academics and all those interested in welfare issues with critical analyses of progress and change in areas of major interest during the past year.
Contributions reflect key themes in the UK and internationally. The first part of the collection focuses on developments and change in core UK social policy areas. Part two provides in-depth analyses of topical issues from both UK and international perspectives, while this year's themed section examines 'Gender and policy'.
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"Social Policy Review" provides students, academics and all those interested in welfare issues with critical analyses of progress and change in areas of major interest during the past year.
Introduction ~ Tony Maltby, Patricia Kennett and Kirstein Rummery; Part One: Current developments: A year of transition in post-compulsory education and training ~ Alastair Thomson; Planning for infrastructure and housing: is sustainable development a dream? ~ Roberta Blackman-Woods; Towards a new pension settlement? Recent pension reform in the UK ~ Debora Price; Climate change and climate change policy in the UK 2006-7 ~ Carolyn Snell; Policy for older people in Wales ~ Gill Windle and Alison Porter; Part Two: Current debates: Flexibility or flexploitation? Problems with work-life balance in a low-income neighbourhood ~ Hartley Dean; The role of confidence and identity in civic participation: exploring ethnic group differences ~ Nahid Ahmad; The problem of riches: is philanthropy a solution or part of the problem? ~ Beth Breeze; Policy from the pitch? Soccer and young refugee women in a shifting policy climate ~ Catherine Palmer; Social citizenship in post-liberal Britain and post-corporatist Germany: curtailed, fragmented, streamlined, but still on the agenda ~ Ingo Bode; Part Three: Engendering policy and politics: Gender and New Labour: after the male breadwinner model? ~ Gillian Pascall; A review of engendering policy in the EU ~ Jill Rubery; Forming Australian families: Gender ideologies and policy settings ~ JaneMaree Maher; Working fathers as providers and carers: towards a new conceptualisation of fatherhood ~ Alison Smith.
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"Social Policy Review 20 continues the series' practice of providing quality discussion and analysis across a range of social policy topics. In addition to the coverage of key social policy areas in the UK and internationally, this edition includes a valuable focus on the relationships between gender and policy." Professor Hugh Bochel, Department of Policy Studies, University of Lincoln
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"Social Policy Review 20 continues the series' practice of providing quality discussion and analysis across a range of social policy topics. In addition to the coverage of key social policy areas in the UK and internationally, this edition includes a valuable focus on the relationships between gender and policy." Professor Hugh Bochel, Department of Policy Studies, University of Lincoln
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781847420763
Publisert
2008-06-11
Utgiver
Vendor
Policy Press
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
148 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
320