Comparative and Global Social Policy
Making a Life on Mean Welfare
Voices from Multicultural Sydney
Based on ethnographic fieldwork and the author’s own experience, this book explores how diverse welfare users navigate the personal and practical hurdles of Australia’s social security system.
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Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2015
This exciting volume brings together international scholarship to address a broad range of issues including the effects of financialisation on services and care provision, policies to address deficiencies in housing and labour markets and ways in which the study of social policy may need to develop.
Minimum Income Standards and Reference Budgets
International and Comparative Policy Perspectives
Research into minimum income standards and reference budgets around the world is compared in this illuminating collection from leading academics in the field.
Mapping Welfare Attitudes in East Asia
Cultural and Political Trajectories
East Asian societies and welfare systems are rapidly changing. This original volume considers welfare attitudes in East Asia, including Mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Macao, Singapore and Taiwan. It proposes new methods and approaches to analysing cross-national variations in welfare attitudes.
Exploring the Production of Urban Space
Differential Space in Three Post-Industrial Cities
This important book engages critically with Lefebvre’s spatial theories and challenges recent thinking about the nature of urban space. Research in three iconic post-industrial cities in the UK and North America, explains how urban public spaces, including differential space are socially produced.
Implementing Innovative Social Investment
Strategic Lessons from Europe
Brings the regional and local to the forefront of social investment debates by showcasing original, evaluative evidence from ten European countries, and provides practical, accessible illustrations of good practice, routes to success, and lessons learned.
The Social Atlas of Europe
This is the first human geography social atlas of Europe to consider the European economy, culture, history and human and physical geography as a single land mass and a more unified European people. It provides an accessible overview of Europe and a human geography contribution to debates about a wide range of topics.
Introduction to Social Policy Analysis
Illuminating Welfare
Illustrating the insights which Social Policy analysis offers to understanding the social world through examples such as the impact decisions about care provision have on workplace opportunities and access to welfare for men and women.
The Italian Welfare State in a European Perspective
A Comparative Analysis
This is the first English-language book to take a comparative look at the Italian welfare state as a whole since the 2008 economic crisis and will be a valuable resource for academics and researchers as well as students.
Local Knowledge Matters
Power, Context and Policy Making in Indonesia
This book explores the critical role that local knowledge plays in public policy processes as well as its role in the co-production of policy relevant knowledge with the scientific and professional communities.
The Marketisation of Welfare-To-Work in Ireland
Governing Activation at the Street-Level
This book offers Ireland’s introduction of a welfare-to-work market as a case study that speaks to wider international debates in social and public policy about the role of market governance in intensifying the turn towards more regulatory and conditional welfare models on the ground.
Global Child Poverty and Well-Being
Measurement, Concepts, Policy and Action
This book brings together theoretical, methodological and policy-relevant contributions by leading researchers on international child poverty.