Social and Public Policy - Research

Taking a comparative perspective, this book casts new light on the changing inequalities in Europe.

Using many data sources, this timely book provides a comprehensive discussion of issues of wealth, looking at potential policy responses, including 'asset-based' welfare and taxation.

This book brings together theoretical, methodological and policy-relevant contributions by leading researchers on international child poverty. 

Providing innovative insights, this book moves the debate on migration and integration policies in the enlarged European Union and its member states onto new terrain.

This original and topical book tells the untold stories of migrants' experiences of, and responses to, financial exclusion in London.

This book takes a life course perspective, analysing and comparing the biographies of mothers and fathers in seven European countries in context.

This is the first book to take a sociological approach to grandparenting across diverse country contexts and combines new theorising with up-to-date empirical findings to document the changing nature of grandparenting across global contexts.

This book casts light on the empirical relationship between labour market deregulation through non-standard contracts and the three main dimensions of worker security: employment, income and social security.

Focusing on a range of welfare issues this book examines the views, values and perceptions of a number of theorists from ancient times to the 19th century, including Plato, St Aquinas, Hobbes, Wollstonecraft and Marx.

Social Policy Review is essential reading for social policy academics and students and for anyone who is interested in the implications of government policy.

In this wide-ranging book, Marian Barnes argues for care as an essential value in private lives and public policies, considering the importance of care to well-being and social justice and applying insights from feminist care ethics to care work, and care within personal relationships.

This book maps out the contours of the European 'social investment' strategy, both at the ideational level and in terms of the policies implemented throughout Europe. It will appeal to both social policy scholars and policy experts.