The critical role of food in contemporary policy, in the UK, Europe and internationally, is explored in a comprehensive and readable account of current issues, including food rights, patenting, safety, aid, choice and poverty.

• This landmark collection explores the critical role of food in contemporary national and international policy.
• The contributors represent different professional and academic perspectives.
• The contributions challenge state, institutional and agency structures and responses to food as a social policy issue.
• Most of the contributors...

This thought-provoking and controversial collection tackles a subject of urgent international concern - migration, immigration and social policy.

• Presents forthright yet realistic analyses of key issues.
  
• Contributors are drawn from diverse academic and professional backgrounds, and bring a wide range of expertise to bear on the subject.
  
• Covers the case for a world-wide system of migration management, the quest for an EU asylum policy, and European countries' treatment of asylum seekers.
  
• Considers particular aspects...

Gathering among the best European specialists of welfare state comparisons, this book organises comprehensive and up to date information on European welfare state reforms in an analytical framework which allows a new approach to social policy changes.

• Demonstrates that, contrary to the common view, 'Bismarckian' welfare states have changed significantly
• Contains long term but also very accurate data and perspective beginning from the 1980s and up to the most recent reforms
• Speaks to two literatures: the one on welfare state, social policies and welfare state...

Through a series of essays by leading social public policy experts, Living in Dangerous Times analyzes the impact of fear on the development of social policy in the UK in the post 9-11 - and 7/11 - world.

• Incorporates an approach that pushes back traditional views of what the study of social policy should be about
• Features essays by leading scholars that combine original theories with empirical data
• Analyzes the complexities of policy development and governance in a world suffused with fear and uncertainty
• Addresses critical...

Reforming Long-term Care in Europe offers the most up-to-date analysis of the features and developments of long-term care in Europe. Each chapter focuses on a key question in the policy debate in each country and offers a description and analysis of each system.

• Offers the very latest analysis of long-term care reform agendas in Europe
• Compares countries comparatively less studied with the experiences of reform in Germany, the UK, Netherlands and Sweden
• Each chapter focuses on a key question in the policy debate in each country and portrays a description and...