This book brings together leading international researchers to discuss governmental approaches to analysing social policies. Analysing Social Policy expands the scope of social policy analysis using the insights from post-Foucauldian scholarship on the art of governing in liberal democracies. One of the main conclusions reached is that policy researchers need to pay much greater attention to the minutiae of policy reform, and to the discursive and material ways in which power operates in policy change. The chapters comprising this book are purposefully written in a clear, accessible and...

This book explores the challenges facing social work, prepares readers for the realities of practice, and engages the reader in a comprehensive, theoretically informed yet accessible analysis of why social work needs to reconstitute itself.