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The Student's Companion to Social Policy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alcock, Pete.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain--Social policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (599 pages)
- Edition:
- 5th ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2016.
- Contents:
- The Student's Companion to Social Policy
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I: Concepts and Approaches
- 1: What is Social Policy?
- The Subject of Social Policy
- The Development of Social Policy
- The Welfare State and the Welfare Consensus
- Theoretical Pluralism
- The New Left
- The New Right
- New social movements
- The new pragmatism
- Public austerity
- Emerging Issues: the Future of Social Policy
- Guide to Further Sources
- Review and Assignment Questions
- 2: Researching Social Policy
- Why We Need Research
- Approaches, Methods and Designs
- Evidence-based Policy and Evaluation
- Emerging Issues
- 3: Social Needs, Social Problems, Social Welfare and Well-being
- What is Social Welfare?
- What are Social Needs?
- What is a Social Problem?
- Conclusion
- Emerging Issues: from Needs to Well-being
- 4: Equality, Rights and Social Justice
- Meanings and Definitions
- Equality
- Rights
- Social justice
- Equality, Rights and Justice as Ideology
- 5: Human Rights and Equality
- Historical Context
- Human rights
- Equalities
- Development of equality and human rights monitoring and enforcement bodies
- Conceptualising Human Rights and Equalities
- Human Rights and Equalities: Making Links
- 6: Efficiency, Equity and Choice
- Scarcity and Choice
- Efficiency
- Benefits of consumption
- Costs of production
- The efficient level of output
- Efficiency and effectiveness
- Efficiency versus Other Goals.
- Equity
- Choice
- The Means of Delivering Efficiency and Choice
- Issues for Public Service Delivery
- 7: Citizenship
- Defining Citizenship: Three Common Elements
- Rights, Responsibilities and Competing Visions of Citizenship
- The Importance of Social Rights for Citizenship
- Conditional and Constrained: Twenty-first-Century Social Citizenship
- 8: Changing Behaviour
- Changing Understandings of Behaviour
- Experimenting with Behaviour Change
- A Global Policy Movement
- Challenging Behavioural Government
- Part II: Key Perspectives
- 9: Neo-Liberalism
- The Neo-Liberal Challenge
- From Classical Liberalism to Neo-Liberalism
- Late-Twentieth-Century Neo-Liberalism
- Neo-Liberalism and Welfare
- Neo-Liberalism and Welfare: A Critique
- Neo-Liberalism in the Twenty-first Century
- 10: The Conservative Tradition
- Conservatism
- The Development of Conservative Ideas and Politics
- Conservatism and Social Reform
- Conservatism and Neo-Liberalism
- Searching for Direction
- Conservatism under David Cameron
- 11: Social Democracy
- Historic Roots
- What is Social Democracy?
- Social Democracy: The British Context
- Social Democratic Welfare States
- Sweden
- Emerging Issues: An Uncertain Future?
- 12: The Socialist Perspective
- Socialism as Critique
- Essential tenets
- Instrumentalist critiques
- Structural-logical critiques
- Neo-Marxist critiques.
- Socialism as Practice
- Gradualist socialism
- Revolutionary socialism
- The Death of Socialism?
- Class versus identity?
- 13: Feminist Perspectives
- Feminist Questions
- Women Workers and Carers
- Gender Relations and Masculinities
- Feminist Intersections
- Feminists in Public Policy and Activism
- Emerging Issues: Post-Feminism, Human Rights and the Impact of Austerity
- 14: Social Movements
- What is a Social Movement?
- Social Movements and the Definition of Groups in Society
- Social Movements and the Emergence of Social Policy
- Analysing Social Movements and the Policy Process
- 15: Post-Modernist Perspectives
- Theories of the Post-Modern
- Post-Modernism and Social Policy
- Post-Structuralism
- Risk Society
- Part III: Historical Context
- 16: Nineteenth-Century Beginnings
- Poor Relief
- Public Services
- 17: The Liberal Era and the Growth of State Welfare
- Changing Socio-political Contexts
- The `Social Question´ and the Threat of Economic Decline
- The Social Question: Diagnostics and Analysis
- The Social Question: Politics and Reform
- Aftermath
- 18: The Modern Welfare State, 1940-74
- The Second World War: The Catalyst for Change?
- The Labour Governments and the Creation of the Welfare State, 1945-51
- Modern `One Nation´ Conservatism and the Welfare State, 1951-64
- Revisionist Labour and the Welfare State, 1964-70.
- The Conservatives and the Welfare State, 1970-4
- A Post-war Welfare Consensus or Settlement?
- 19: Crisis, Retrenchment and the Impact of Neo-Liberalism,1976-97
- Neo-Liberal Theory and Economic Crisis
- Neo-Liberal Programme
- Public spending cuts
- Privatisation
- Quasi-markets
- Funding higher education
- What was Wrong with the Neo-Liberal Diagnosis?
- 20: Modernisation and the Third Way
- The Essence of the Third Way
- The Third Way in Practice
- The New Labour Legacy
- Guide to Further Reading
- 21: Austerity Politics
- Global Financial Crisis and `Austerity´
- The Theory of Austerity
- Challenges to the Theoretical Basis of Austerity
- From Emergency Keynesianism to the Return of Neo-Liberalism
- The Austerity Narrative and the Legitimation of Welfare State Restructuring
- Part IV: Devolution and Social Policy in the United Kingdom
- 22: Social Policy and Devolution
- The Pattern of Devolution
- The Operation of the Devolved Administrations
- Spending Patterns within the United Kingdom
- The Pattern of Flexibility at the Devolved Level
- Emerging Issues: The Scottish Independence Referendum and Beyond
- 23: Social Policy in Northern Ireland
- Funding and Spending on Social Policy in Northern Ireland
- Social Policy Priorities in Northern Ireland: Convergence and Divergence
- What Underpins Social Policy in Northern Ireland?
- 24: Social Policy in Scotland.
- The 1998 Devolution Settlement in Scotland
- Policy Divergence Since 1998
- Example 1: Health policy
- Example 2: Higher education finance
- Example 3: Personal care
- Social Policy in Scotland: The Settlement under Strain?
- The Scottish Independence Referendum: Debates and Outcomes
- Towards a New Settlement?
- Guide to Further Resources
- 25: Social Policy in Wales
- Politics and Ideology
- Education and Skills
- Health and Social Care
- Housing and Homelessness
- Transport
- Equality and Human Rights
- Part V: Contemporary Context and Challenges
- 26: The Demographic Challenge
- Population Change
- A Century of Population Change in the UK
- An Ageing Population
- Migration
- An Increasingly Diverse Population
- Changing Patterns of Partnership and Family Formation
- 27: The Economic Context
- The Needs of People and the Needs of the `Economy´
- The Promises and Pursuit of Economic Growth
- Taxation, Spending and Debt
- Emerging Issues: Crisis, Austerity and the `Burden´ of Public Spending
- 28: The Sustainability Challenge
- Understanding Sustainability
- Ecological Challenges
- Social Challenges
- The economic
- The political
- The moral and cultural
- Social policy
- UK Government Policies
- 29: The Role of Religion
- Context
- Social Welfare in the Five Main World Religions
- Religion, Spirituality and the Study of Social Policy
- The UK Context
- Review and Assignment Questions.
- 30: The Distribution of Welfare.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Alcock, Pete The Student's Companion to Social Policy
- ISBN:
- 9781118965962
- OCLC:
- 952427268
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