Policy Press: 559 books
Social happiness
Theory into policy and practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
The development of happiness as an explicit theme in social research and policy worldwide has been rapid and remarkable, posing fundamental questions about our personal and collective motives and purposes. This book examines the achievements and potential of applied happiness scholarship in diverse...
Introduction to social policy analysis
Illuminating welfare
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
In this distinctive introduction Stephen Sinclair illuminates the subject of Social Policy by showing readers how Social Policy analysts think about welfare issues and policies. From what influences the decision to have children to how everyday terms such as ‘youth crime’ or ‘poverty’ reveal...
Knowledge in policy
Embodied, inscribed, enacted
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
This important collection presents a radical reconception of the place of knowledge in contemporary policymaking in Europe, based not on assumptions about evidence, expertise or experience but on the different forms that knowledge takes. Knowledge is embodied in people, inscribed in documents and...
Research and policy in ethnic relations
Compromised dynamics in a neoliberal era
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
In the field of ethnic relations the complex, often tortuous, interactions among academic researchers, research funders and those who use the research often result in social policy interventions that are poorly conceived and flawed in their implementation. In this unique book, the contributors seek...
Reframing global social policy
Social investment for sustainable and inclusive growth
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Christopher Deeming and Paul Smyth together with internationally renowned contributors propose that the merging of the ‘social investment’ and ‘inclusive growth and development’ agendas is forging an unprecedented global social policy framework. The book shows how these key ideas together...
Where academia and policy meet
A cross-national perspective on the involvement of social work academics in social policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Based on data from 12 diverse societies, this is the first cross-national comparative study on academic engagement in social policy formulation. The chapters present survey data on the policy involvement of social work academics in different countries and an analysis of this data by country experts....
Social policies and social control
New perspectives on the 'not-so-big society'
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Drawing on a wide array of policy domains and events, this book provides an innovative account of social control and behaviourism within welfare systems and social policies, and the implications for disadvantaged groups. This accessible collection reviews the controls, assumptions and persuasions...
by Morphet, Janice
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Britain's relationship with the European Union (EU) is frequently viewed as simple by the media and politicians. In ways - never really explained - the EU has managed to 'take away' Britain's sovereign powers and has the ability to determine much of its legislation. The history of how this has occurred...
A revolution in family policy
Where we should go from here
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
This book offers a radical rethink of family policy in the UK.
Clem Henricson, the family policy expert, analyses in detail the major shift in the role of the state viz a viz personal relationships in recent years, with its aspirations to reduce child poverty, increase social mobility and deliver...
by Edwards, Claire, Imrie
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
With an ever increasing proportion of the world's population inhabiting urban environments, the management of cities remains a perennial challenge for governments and policymakers. This concise, but wide-ranging text makes sense of the multiple ways in which urban issues and problems have been defined...
by Spicker, Paul
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2008
Social Policy: Themes and approaches is a fully revised, updated and extended edition of a bestselling social policy textbook, extensively reworked and adapted to meet the needs of its international readership. The book lays out the architecture of social policy as a field of study, providing a sense...
by Snell, Carolyn, Haq
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Some have argued that the rate and scale of human-induced global environmental change is so significant that it now constitutes a new geological epoch in the Earth’s history called the Anthropocene (Zalasiewicz et al, 2011; Steffen et al, 2011). More than ever, there is a need to have appropriate...
The coalition government and social policy
Restructuring the welfare state
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
How did the UK Coalition Government’s policies differ from previous Conservative (or Labour) Government policies? How did the Liberal Democrats influence them? And what can this tell us about the likely policy direction of the Conservative government elected in May 2015? Responding to the political...
Evaluation for the real world
The impact of evidence in policy making
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Evaluation research findings should be a key element of the policy-making process, yet in reality they are often disregarded. This valuable book examines the development of evaluation and its impact on public policy by analysing evaluation frameworks and criteria which are available when evaluating...