Making Social Policy in Australia: An Introduction

ISBN-13: 9780367718671 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 268 str.

Tony Dalton; Mary Draper; Wendy Weeks

Opis

A comprehensive introduction to the principles and practice of social policy.

Spis treści

Tables and figures

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Introduction

PART I MAKING SOCIAL POLICY IN AUSTRALIA

1 Towards a framework for understanding and participating in social policy making

2 Why the historical and current context matters

3 Debates about social goals

4 Organisational maps and policy making

5 Working in organisations

6 Disputes about policy process: governments, citizens and markets

7 The policy process as power and contest

PART II CASE STUDIES

Introduction

8 Pathways to excellence: developing Aboriginal education policy ELEANOR BOURKE

9 How violence against women became an issue on the national policy agenda WENDY WEEKS AND KATE KILMORE

10 The Kurds - who are they? Established Kurdish identity in Victoria HURRIYET BABACAN

11 Low-start mortgages: implementation problems in a deregulated finance economy TONY DALTON

12 Policy and planning in community s

O autorze

Tony Dalton, Mary Draper and John Wiseman all lecture in the Department of Social Work and Social Sciences at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Wendy Weeks is Senior Lecturer in Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Melbourne.