Full Description
This comprehensive Handbook provides a unique examination of the key issues and challenges facing society and social policy in the twenty-first century. Featuring both wide-ranging coverage of major issues and detailed analysis of social policies in different countries, the Handbook explores key concepts, policy areas and institutions, considering welfare and social policy in the context of wider socio-economic and cultural divisions.
In addition to examining specific policy areas, contributors engage with the social divisions and complex infrastructures that underpin them on both local and global scales. Chapters also discuss significant challenges to contemporary social policy, including the threats to human and societal wellbeing posed by austerity, migration and the climate crisis, as well as the opportunities these present to reshape policy conceptually, ideologically and practically in the future in response to these issues.
Scholars and students in social policy, sociology and political science looking for a comprehensive overview of the field of social policy will find this Handbook an invaluable resource. It will also prove useful to researchers and practitioners seeking in-depth analyses of particular countries or policy areas covered.
Contributors include: E. Adamson, H. Bochel, D. Byrne, M. Calnan, B. Cantillon, H. Dean, C. Deeming, A. Dinham, F. Dukelow, B. Ebbinghaus, D. Edmiston, N. Ellison, K. Farnsworth, D. Finn, J.L. Garritzmann, M. Griffiths, P. Hall, K. Hamblin, T. Haux, A.J. He, E. Hogg, G. Huang, B. Hvinden, G.-J. Hwang, J. Javornik, R. Jawad, J. Jenson, H. Johannson, A. Kaasch, M. Kitzmann, M. Koch, K. Kuitto, S. Kuivalainen, Z. Li, E.V. Lomelí, N. Meer, N. Morel, K. Nakray, C. Needham, T. Newburn, L. Panico, T. Papadopoulos, N. Pleace, T. Reeskens, E. Righard, A. Roumpakis, M.A. Schoyen, C.B. Solano, M. Spång, A. Vlachantoni, Y. Yang
Contents
Contents:
Introduction
Nick Ellison/Tina Haux
Section One: Ideas and concepts
1. Poverty and inequality
Bea Cantillon
2. Needs and Rights
Hartley Dean
3. Citizenship
Daniel Edmiston
4. Social Investment: Polysemy in Perspective
Jane Jenson
Section Two: Social Policy and Social Divisions
5. Class
David Byrne
6. Gender
Elizabeth Adamson
7. Religion, Belief and Public Policy
Adam Dinham
8. Race and Ethnicity
Nasar Meer
9. Disability
Miro Griffiths
10. Generations and the Life Course
Athina Vlachantoni and Yazhen Yang
Section Three: Welfare systems
11. Western and Northern Europe
Bjørn Hvinden and Mi Ah Schoyen
12. Eastern Europe
Jana Javornik
13. Southern Europe
Theo Papadopoulos and Antonios Roumpakis
14. Liberal welfare systems
Christopher Deeming
15. Latin America: Inertia and Transformation in Five Dual Welfare Regimes
Carlos Barba Solano and Enrique Valencia Lomelí
16. India: Welfare/Disfare from Nehru's Imagination to Modi's Dirigiste Reforms
Keerty Nakray
17. China: Social Policy and Reforms
Alex Jingwei He, Zilin Lee and Genghua Huang
18. East Asia
Gyu-Jin Hwang
19. The Middle East and North Africa
Rana Jawad
Section Four: Contemporary Social Policies
20. Pensions
Kati Kuitto and Susan Kuivalainen
21. Changing Work and Welfare: Unemployment and Labour Market Policies
Bernhard Ebbinghaus
22. Health Policy: In Sickness and in Health
Mike Calnan
23. Social Care
Patrick Hall, Catherine Needham and Kate Hamblin
24. Housing Policy
Nicholas Pleace
25. Education Policy
Julian L. Garritzmann
26. Family Policies and Child Wellbeing
Lidia Panico and Morgan Kitzmann
27. Criminal justice
Tim Newburn
Section Five: Institutions and Welfare Delivery
28. The State
Hugh Bochel
29. Public-Private Partnerships: The Delivery of Public Employment Services
Dan Finn
30. The Third Sector and the Welfare State
Eddy Hogg
31. Fiscal Welfare
Nathalie Morel
32. Social, Corporate, Occupational: The 'Whole Economy' of Welfare
Kevin Farnsworth
33. Global Institutions
Alexandra Kaasch
Section Six: Contemporary Challenges
34. Debt, Austerity Capitalism and the Welfare State
Fiona Dukelow
35. Transnational Social Vulnerabilities and Reconfigurations of 'Social Policy'
Erica Righard and Mikael Spång
36. Welfare States, Social Policies and the Environment
Håkan Johansson and Max Koch
37. Migration and the Welfare State: Welfare Magnets and Welfare Chauvinism
Tim Reeskens
Conclusion: Looking Ahead
Tina Haux and Nick Ellison
Index
