The student's companion to social policy / / edited by Pete Alcock [and three others]

• Pubblicazione: Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2016; ©2016
• Edizione: Fifth edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (599 pages)
• Disciplina: 306.0941
• Soggetto topico: Public welfare - Great Britain; Social policy - Study and teaching
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Social policy
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): AlcockPeter <1951->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 IssuesGuide to Further Sources; Review and Assignment Questions; 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; Guide to Further Sources; Review and Assignment Questions; 4: Equality, Rights and Social Justice; Meanings and Definitions; Equality; Rights; Social justice; Equality, Rights and Justice as Ideology; Equality; Rights; Social justice; Emerging Issues; Guide to Further Sources; Review and Assignment Questions ; 5: Human Rights and EqualityHistorical Context; Human rights; Equalities; Development of equality and human rights monitoring and enforcement bodies; Conceptualising Human Rights and Equalities; Human rights; Equalities; Human Rights and Equalities: Making Links; Emerging Issues; Guide to Further Sources; Review and Assignment Questions; 6: Efficiency, Equity and Choice; Introduction; 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 ChoiceIssues for Public Service Delivery; Guide to Further Sources; Review and Assignment Questions; 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; Emerging Issues; Guide to Further Sources; Review and Assignment Questions; 8: Changing Behaviour; Introduction; Changing Understandings of Behaviour; Experimenting with Behaviour Change; A Global Policy Movement ; Challenging Behavioural GovernmentConclusion; Emerging Issues; Guide to Further Sources; Review and Assignment Questions; 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; Guide to Further Sources; Review and Assignment Questions; 10: The Conservative Tradition; Conservatism; The Development of Conservative Ideas and Politics; Conservatism and Social Reform ; Conservatism and Neo-Liberalism
• Titolo autorizzato: The student's companion to social policy
• ISBN: 1-118-96596-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465687703321
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