Full Description
Published in association with the SPA, Social Policy Review 27 draws together international scholarship at the forefront of addressing concerns that emphasise both the breadth of social policy analysis, and the expanse of issues with which it is engaged.
Contributions to this edition focus on 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 to respond to its changing material concerns.
A themed section explores the place of comparative welfare modelling in the context of change over the last quarter of a century to consider where scholarship has been and where it might be going.
Contents
Part One: Continuities and change in UK social policy;
Britain's hunger crisis: where's the social policy? ‾ Hannah Lambie-Mumford;
Social security policy and low wages in austere times ‾ Chris Grover;
Responsibilisation of everyday life: housing and welfare state change ‾ Stuart Lowe and Jed Meers;
'The end of local government as we know it' - what next for adult social care? ‾ Jon Glasby;
Part Two: Contributions from the Social Policy Association Conference 2014;
Towards the Welfare Commons: contestation, critique and criticality in social policy ‾ Fiona Williams;
New keys for old doors: breaking the vicious circle connecting homelessness and reoffending ‾ Graham Bowpitt;
Embedded neglect, entrenched abuse: market failure and mistreatment in elderly residential care ‾ Joe Greener;
What variety of employment service quasi-market? Ireland's JobPath as a private power market ‾ Jay Wiggan;
Part Three: 25 years after The three worlds of welfare capitalism: a retrospective;
Applying welfare regime ideal types in empirical analysis: the example of activation ‾ Deborah Rice;
What if we waited a little longer? The dependent variable problem: within the comparative analysis of
the welfare state revisited ‾ Stefan Kühner;
The welfare modelling business in the East Asian welfare state debate ‾ Gyu-Jin Hwang;
The role of regime-type analysis in OECD work on social policy and family ‾ Dominic Richardson.
