Ideology and Welfare

ISBN-13: 9780333929308 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 200 str.

G. Taylor

Opis

This book introduces students to the diversity of theoretical perspectives on welfare, both illuminating the distinctiveness of each ideology and highlighting important continuities in thought. It goes on to illustrate how these theories are reflected in and challenge the development of welfare policy.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- Liberalism.- Conservatism.- Social Democracy.- Neo-Liberalism.- Third Way.- Radical Critics: Marxism.- Radical Critics: Feminism.- Radical Critics: Greens.- Conclusion.- Bibliography.

O autorze

GARY TAYLOR is Senior Lecturer in Applied Social Science at Sheffield Hallam University. He has written a number of books on social and political theory, social policy and on the media.