Capability-Promoting Policies: Enhancing Individual and Social Development

ISBN-13: 9781447334316 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 336 str.

Hans-Uwe Otto;Walker Melanie; Holger Ziegler

Opis

Most current social welfare policies aim to ameliorate immediate problems or injustices, but they do little to foster human development or support the potential of people within marginalized communities. How can we more effectively use public policy to foster human development? How can we overcome the injustice of contemporary society and give people across the social and class spectrum equal opportunities to flourish? Capability-Promoting Policies offers case studies and analyses of a number of different existing approaches to these questions, presenting newly conceptualized strategies for developing and implementing effective policies for fostering human development at the local, national, and international levels.

Spis treści

Introduction: Human development, capabilities and the ethics of policy ~ Hans-Uwe Otto, Melanie Walker and Holger Ziegler Part 1: Conceptual challenges What political liberalism and the welfare state left behind: chance and gratitude ~ Reiko Gotoh The capability approach, agency and sustainable development ~ Elise Klein and Paola Ballon Public policy: from welfare to empowerment of women in India ~ Indira Mahendravada The contribution to human development of social policies in the Central American integration system ~ Guillermo Bornemann-Martínez, Pedro Caldentey and Emilio J. Morales-Fernándes Part 2: Modalities of structure and civil society A framework for urban integration: the case of Buenos Aires ~ Séverine Deneulin, Eduardo Lépore, Ann Mitchell and Ana Lourdes Suárez Culture, equity and social wellbeing in New York City ~ Mark J. Stern and Susan C. Seifert The third sector and capability-promoting policies ~ Giuseppe Acconcia, Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti and Paolo R. Graziano Informal workers and human development in South Africa ~ Ina Conradie Part 3: Children, youth and education; The capability approach: what can it offer child protection policy and practice in England? ~ Brid Featherstone and Anna Gupta The capability approach and a child standpoint ~ Sharon Bessell Capabilities and the challenge to inclusive schooling ~ Franziska Felder Early childhood educational curricula: implications of the capability approach ~ Antoanneta Potsi Education for all? Providing capabilities for young people with special needs ~ Christian Christrup Kjeldsen The instrumental values of education in the Southern Cone ~ Xavier Rambla Conclusion: What is to be done about capability-promoting policies? ~ Hans-Uwe Otto, Melanie Walker and Holger Ziegler