Social Policy Review 24: Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2012

ISBN-13: 9781447304470 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 304 str.

Majella Kilkey

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This edition of "Social Policy Review" marks the fortieth anniversary of the publication from the UK Social Policy Association. Since its inception, "Social Policy Review" has been devoted to up-to-date and diverse coverage of the best social policy scholarship. Including a special anniversary preface, this three-part volume offers an analysis of current developments under the UK s coalition government, an examination of the social policy of developing countries in Africa and the Middle East, and an investigation of the fate of social welfare countries worst-hit by the economic crisis."

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Part One: Current developments ~ Majella Kilkey: Universal Credit: overview and gender implications ~ Fran Bennett; Family support and the Coalition: retrenchment, refocusing and restructuring ~ Harriet Churchill; Housing, the welfare state and the Coalition Government ~ Alan Murie;The 2012/13 reforms of higher education in England: changing student finances and funding ~ Claire Callender; Division and opposition: the Health and Social Care Bill 2011 ~ Sally Ruane; Part Two: Social policy in the developed and developing worlds ~ Gaby Ramia: Immigrant-targeted activation policies: a comparison of the approaches in the Scandinavian welfare states ~ Karen Nielsen Breidahl; Welfare retrenchment under Left and Right government leadership: towards a consolidated framework of analysis? ~ Stefan Keuhner; From black hole to spring: the coming of age of social policy in the Arab countries? ~ Rana Jawad; China's developmental model in Africa: a new era for global social policy? ~ Marian Urbina Ferretjans and Rebecca Surrender; Part Three: Severe crisis: social policy in most challenging circumstances ~ Kevin Farnsworth: The Greek welfare state in the age of austerity: anti-social policy and the politico-economic crisis ~ Theodoros Papadopoulos and Antonis Roumpakis; From opportunity to austerity: crisis and social policy in Spain ~ Javier Ramos Diaz and Albert Varela; From financial crisis to welfare retrenchment: assessing the challenges to the Irish welfare state ~ Mairéad Considine and Fiona Dukelow; The Great Recession and US social policy: from expansion to austerity ~ Daniel Beland and Alex Wadden; Seeking refuge in the Nordic model: social policy in Iceland after 2008 ~ Zoe Irving.