Social Policy Review 25: Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2013: Ageing and the Lifecourse
Editat de Gaby Ramia, Kevin Farnsworth, Zoë Irvingen Limba Engleză Hardback – 26 iun 2013
The field of social policy has a rich history, but policies on the ground are undergoing intensive change. Governments around the world are responding to political, economic, and financial pressures, many of them linked to the global economic crisis. National agendas typically have social policy at or close to the center. This latest edition of Social Policy Review presents an up-to-date and diverse review of the best in social policy scholarship. It brings together specially commissioned reviews and research by an exciting range of internationally renowned authors, examining important debates in British and international social policy. This edition includes a special focus on work, employment, and insecurity.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781447312741
ISBN-10: 1447312740
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 14 figures and 13 tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bristol University Press
Colecția Policy Press
Seria Ageing and the Lifecourse
ISBN-10: 1447312740
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 14 figures and 13 tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bristol University Press
Colecția Policy Press
Seria Ageing and the Lifecourse
Notă biografică
Gaby Ramia is associate professor in the Graduate School of Government at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Regulating International Students’ Wellbeing, also published by the Policy Press at the University of Bristol. Kevin Farnsworth is a senior lecturer in social policy at the University of Sheffield, where Zoë Irving is a senior lecturer in comparative social policy. Together they are coauthors of Social Policy in Challenging Times, also published by the Policy Press at the University of Bristol.
Cuprins
Notes on contributors
Introduction
Gaby Ramia
Part One: Contemporary debates and developments in the UK
1 Introducing Universal Credit
Paul Spicker
2 Reconciling fuel poverty and climate change policy under the Coalition government: Green Deal or no deal?
Carolyn Snell and Harriet Thomson
3 Doctors in the driving seat? Reforms in NHS primary care and commissioning
Elke Heins
4 Financing later life: pensions, care, housing equity and the new politics of old age
Debora Price and Lynne Livsey
Part Two: Contributions from the Social Policy Association/East Asian Social Policy Research Network Conference of 2012
5 It’s time to move on from ‘race’? The official ‘invisibilisation’ of minority ethnic disadvantage
Gary Craig and Maggie O’Neill
6 Corporations as political actors: new perspectives for health policy research
Ben Hawkins and Anne Roemer-Mahler
7 Square pegs and round holes: extending existing typologies fails to capture the complexities of Chinese social policy
Dan Horsfall and Sabrina Chai
8 The Earned Income Tax Credit as an anti-poverty programme: palliative or cure?
Phyllis Jeroslow
9 Social policy and culture: the cases of Japan and South Korea
Nam K. Jo
10 Load-shedding and reloading: changes in government responsibility – the case of Israeli immigration and integration policy, 2004-10
Ilana Shpaizman
Part Three: Themed section: work, employment and insecurity
11 ‘What unemployment means’ three decades and two recessions later
Adrian Sinfield
12 Precarious employment and EU employment regulation
Julia S. O’Connor
13 How do activation policies affect social citizenship? The issue of autonomy
Silke Bothfeld and Sigrid Betzelt
14 Modernising social security for lone parents: avoiding fertility and unemployment traps when reformind social policy in Northern Europe
Anders Freundt, Simon Grundt Straubinger and Jon Kvist
15 Women, families and the ‘Great Recession’ in the UK
Susan Harkness
Index
Introduction
Gaby Ramia
Part One: Contemporary debates and developments in the UK
1 Introducing Universal Credit
Paul Spicker
2 Reconciling fuel poverty and climate change policy under the Coalition government: Green Deal or no deal?
Carolyn Snell and Harriet Thomson
3 Doctors in the driving seat? Reforms in NHS primary care and commissioning
Elke Heins
4 Financing later life: pensions, care, housing equity and the new politics of old age
Debora Price and Lynne Livsey
Part Two: Contributions from the Social Policy Association/East Asian Social Policy Research Network Conference of 2012
5 It’s time to move on from ‘race’? The official ‘invisibilisation’ of minority ethnic disadvantage
Gary Craig and Maggie O’Neill
6 Corporations as political actors: new perspectives for health policy research
Ben Hawkins and Anne Roemer-Mahler
7 Square pegs and round holes: extending existing typologies fails to capture the complexities of Chinese social policy
Dan Horsfall and Sabrina Chai
8 The Earned Income Tax Credit as an anti-poverty programme: palliative or cure?
Phyllis Jeroslow
9 Social policy and culture: the cases of Japan and South Korea
Nam K. Jo
10 Load-shedding and reloading: changes in government responsibility – the case of Israeli immigration and integration policy, 2004-10
Ilana Shpaizman
Part Three: Themed section: work, employment and insecurity
11 ‘What unemployment means’ three decades and two recessions later
Adrian Sinfield
12 Precarious employment and EU employment regulation
Julia S. O’Connor
13 How do activation policies affect social citizenship? The issue of autonomy
Silke Bothfeld and Sigrid Betzelt
14 Modernising social security for lone parents: avoiding fertility and unemployment traps when reformind social policy in Northern Europe
Anders Freundt, Simon Grundt Straubinger and Jon Kvist
15 Women, families and the ‘Great Recession’ in the UK
Susan Harkness
Index