Understanding Housing Policy

Brian Lund

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• The 3rd edition of this bestselling textbook has been completely revised to address the range of socio-economic factors that have influenced UK housin... Lees meer

Understanding Health Policy

Rob Baggott

• Hardcover | Engels | Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
• In recent years the pace of reform in health policy and the NHS has been relentless. But how are policies formed and implemented? This fully updated e... Lees meer

Understanding Crime and Social Policy

Emma Wincup

• Hardcover | Engels | Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
• Understanding crime and social policy encourages readers to reflect upon the close connections, and sometimes tensions, between crime reduction and so... Lees meer

Understanding Theories and Concepts in Social Policy

Ruth Lister, Ruth Patrick, Kate Brown

• Hardcover | Engels | Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
• Demonstrating the relevance of theory to political and policy debates and practice, this lively and accessible second edition helps students to grasp ... Lees meer

Understanding Global Social Policy

• Paperback | Engels | Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
• With a contemporary overview of global social policy formation, the third edition of this leading textbook identifies key issues, debates and prioriti... Lees meer

Understanding Immigration and Refugee Policy

Rosemary Sales

• Hardcover | Engels | Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
• Immigration, particularly asylum, has become a major political issue in Britain and Europe and its impact on welfare, employment and 'social cohesion'... Lees meer

Understanding 'Race' and Ethnicity

• Hardcover | Engels | Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
• This new edition of a widely-respected textbook examines welfare policy and racism in a broad framework that marries theory, evidence, history and con... Lees meer

Understanding Social Security

• Paperback | Engels | Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
• The political and economic landscape of UK social security provision has changed significantly since the 2008 financial crisis. This fully revised, re... Lees meer

Understanding Community

Peter Somerville

• Paperback | Engels | Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
• This substantially revised edition of a highly topical text draws upon theory from Marx and Bourdieu to offer a clearer understanding of community in ... Lees meer

Understanding Global Social Policy

• Paperback | Engels | Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
• Building on the successes of Understanding Global Social Policy (Yeates ed. 2008) and its companion text, the Global Social Policy Reader (Yeates and ... Lees meer

Understanding Social Welfare Movements

Jason Annetts, Alex Law, Wallace McNeish, Gerry Mooney

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• Contemporary social policy has never been more vigorously contested. Issues range from single-issue campaigns over housing, social care, hospital clos... Lees meer

Understanding the Cost of Welfare

Howard Glennerster

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• The challenge of meeting the growing cost of welfare is one of the most pressing issues facing governments of our time. Glennerster's authoritative Un... Lees meer

Understanding Disability Policy

Alan Roulstone, Simon Prideaux

• Hardcover | Engels | Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
• In an era of scarce social resources the question of the changing social policy constructions and responses to disabled people has become increasingly... Lees meer

Understanding Theories and Concepts in Social Policy

Ruth Lister, Ruth Patrick, Kate Brown

• Paperback | Engels | Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
• Demonstrating the relevance of theory to political and policy debates and practice, this lively and accessible second edition helps students to grasp ... Lees meer

Understanding Immigration and Refugee Policy

Rosemary Sales

• Paperback | Engels | Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
• Immigration, particularly asylum, has become a major political issue in Britain and Europe and its impact on welfare, employment and 'social cohesion'... Lees meer

Understanding Human Need

Hartley Dean

• Paperback | Engels | Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
• This second edition of a widely respected textbook is one of the few resources available to provide an overview of human need, as a key concept in the... Lees meer

Understanding Disability Policy

Alan Roulstone, Simon Prideaux

• Paperback | Engels | Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
• In an era of scarce social resources the question of the changing social policy constructions and responses to disabled people has become increasingly... Lees meer

Understanding the Mixed Economy of Welfare

• Paperback | Engels | Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
• As the state withdraws from welfare provision, the mixed economy of welfare - involving private, voluntary and informal sectors - has become ever more... Lees meer

Understanding the Environment and Social Policy

• Paperback | Engels | Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
• Bringing together leading experts, this textbook explores the key social, political, economic and moral challenges that environmental problems pose fo... Lees meer

Understanding Crime and Social Policy

Emma Wincup

• Paperback | Engels | Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
• Understanding crime and social policy explores the interface between crime and social policy, drawing upon international theoretical developments and ... Lees meer

Understanding the Policy Process

John Hudson, Stuart Lowe

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• This book draws on the latest social science to explain how and why social policy change occurs. Built on core concepts of policy analysis, it offers ... Lees meer

Understanding Inequality, Poverty and Wealth

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• This major textbook provides students with a critical understanding of poverty and social exclusion in relation to wealth, rather than as separate fro... Lees meer

Understanding Housing Policy

Brian Lund

• Paperback | Engels | Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
• What are the major housing problems in contemporary Britain? How effective are the policies designed to tackle these problems? These are the central q... Lees meer

Understanding Human Need

Hartley Dean

• Paperback | Engels | Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
• Human need is a central but contested concept in social policy and the social sciences. This book provides an accessible overview of the subject using... Lees meer