Talking Policy: How Social Policy Is Made

ISBN-13: 9780367719531 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 432 str.

Judith Bessant; Rob Watts; Tony Dalton

Opis

An introduction to the process of social policy making in Australia. The authors emphasise the intensely human and political nature of the development of social services and programs, illustrating their arguments with detailed case studies.

Spis treści

Introduction

PART A: Thinking about social policy

1: Theorising social policy

2: The Australian welfare state: Compared and contrasted

3: History Matters

4: Australian liberalism: Ideas at work in Australian social policy

5: Inequality and the Australian welfare state

6: Poverty, ethics and social policy

PART B: Making policy

7: State organisations and social policy making

Case study: Mandatory sentencing, the nation-state and international law 1991-2004

8: Putting the social into policy: policy making communities

Case study: Talking about drugs: Chroming, the press and policy making

9: Talking of metaphors and policy making

Case study: Policy change and metaphor - the case of university fees

Conclusion: On truth, the state and social policy

O autorze

Judith Bessant is Professor, Rob Watts is Professor and Tony Dalton is Associate Professor in the School of Social Science and Planning at RMIT University, Melbourne. Paul Smyth is Professorial Fellow in Social Policy at the University of Melbourne.