Policy Press

Social Policy Association conference 2021 series highlights

Below we have highlighted our current Social and Public Policy series.

Don't forget you can use code POSPA21 to get 50% off all Social and Public Policy book until 16 July.

If you’re interested in writing for one of our series, you can find out more about how to submit a proposal on each individual series page. Click on the ‘find out more’ links below.



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Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy

Series Editors: Heejung Chung, University of Kent, UK, Alexandra Kaasch, University of Bielefeld, Germany, and Stefan Kühner, Lingnan University, Hong Kong

Published in association with the Social Policy Association.

In a world that is rapidly changing, increasingly connected and uncertain, there is a need to develop a shared applied policy analysis of welfare regimes. Through a unique combination of comparative and global social perspectives, books in this series will address broad questions around how nation states and transnational policy actors deal with globally shared challenges. Find out more about the series and how to submit a proposal here.

LAUNCH EVENT FOR SPA DELEGATES

Are you an SPA conference delegate? Then join us at 4.45pm on Thursday 8th July to launch Welfare Reform and Social Investment Policy in Europe and East Asia edited by Young Jun Choi, Timo Fleckenstein and Soohyun Lee, the latest book in the series.

All launch event attendees will have the chance to win a free collection of all books currently published in the series.



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Understanding Welfare

Published in association with the Social Policy Association, this textbook series helps students understand the causes of and responses to social issues.

Coming soon: Understanding Global Social Policy (Third Edition) edited by Nicola Yeates and Chris Holden

You might have missed: Understanding Human Need (Second Edition) by Hartley Dean

Find out more about the entire series and how to submit a proposal here.



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New Series: Sustainable Care 

Series Editors: Sue Yeandle, CIRCLE, University of Sheffield, Jon Glasby, University of Birmingham, Jill Manthorpe, King’s College London and Kate Hamblin, CIRCLE, University of Sheffield

Arising from research in the ESRC Sustainable Care: connecting people and systems programme, this new book series will provide novel, interdisciplinary and internationally informed contributions to understanding care systems, care work and care relationships. Contributions are based on studies conducted in the UK and with international partners studying linked topics in their own countries. Find out more about the series here.



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Civil Society and Social Change

Series Editors: Ian Rees Jones, Cardiff University, Mike Woods, Aberystwyth University and Paul Chaney, Cardiff University

This series provides interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives on the rapidly changing nature of civil society at local, regional, national and global scales. Find out more about the series and how to submit a proposal here.

The latest book in the series City Regions and Devolution in the UK by David Beel, Martin Jones and Ian Rees Jones is available Open Access here.



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Third Sector Research

Series Editor: John Mohan, University of Birmingham

Published in collaboration with the Third Sector Research Centre, this international series produces third/voluntary sector books with an emphasis on accessible communication between academic teaching and research, and practitioners. Find out more and buy books in the series here.



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International Library of Policy Analysis

Series editors: Iris Geva-May, Professor Emerita, Simon Fraser University, Canada, Adjunct Professor, Carleton University, Canada and Visiting Professor, The Wagner School, NYU, New York, US and Michael Howlett FRSC, Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) and Burnaby Mountain Professor, Simon Fraser University, Canada

This major series brings together a detailed examination of the theory and practice of policy analysis systems at different levels of governments and by non-governmental actors in a range of specific countries. The most recent book in the series focuses on Ireland, and forthcoming volumes include policy analysis in Spain and South Korea. Find out more about the series and how to submit a proposal here.



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New Perspectives in Policy and Politics

Edited by Oscar Berglund, University of Bristol, UK, Claire Dunlop, University of Exeter, UK, and Chris Weible, University of Colorado, US.

Books in the series were first published as special issues of our Policy & Politics journal.

The changing nature of politics and the contemporary challenges facing public and social policy demand new perspectives that contest existing assumptions and deliver new ways of understanding a changing world. This series focuses on contributions that aim to re-orient perennial debates and open-up emerging seams of research. Find out more here.



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Global Perspectives on Philanthropy and Public Good

Series Editors: Tobias Jung, Shona Russell and Alina Baluch, Centre for the Study of Philanthropy & Public Good, University of St Andrews

Offering an international and interdisciplinary perspective on philanthropy and the public good, this new series will examine where, how and with what impact donors and their foundations are playing an increasingly central role in solving pressing social, economic and environmental issues. Find out more about the series and how to submit a proposal here.

 

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