Developments in British Social Policy

by Chris Pierson (Series Editor), Chris Pierson (Series Editor), Nick Ellison (Editor)

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $3.28

  This text furnishes students of social policy with a comprehensive introduction to the subject that covers not just a sector-by-sector policy analysis but also its theoretical underpinning and a discussion of the wider socio-economic context of policy making and implementation. The work is intended for use on undergraduate courses in social policy, and for students of social policy, sociology, politics, public policy, health studies, community studies, applied social studies, and social work.

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $3.28

  This new edition of an acclaimed undergraduate text offers both a critical commentary on the core areas of social policy in Britain - particularly as they have developed under the auspices of the New Labour government - and an appraisal of the key ideas currently informing British welfare policy. It thus combines discussion of staple topics with original arguments about the new shape of social policy at the start of the twenty-first century.

• New

  Paperback
  2003

  $50.37

  This new edition of an acclaimed undergraduate text offers both a critical commentary on the core areas of social policy in Britain - particularly as they have developed under the auspices of the New Labour government - and an appraisal of the key ideas currently informing British welfare policy. It thus combines discussion of staple topics with original arguments about the new shape of social policy at the start of the twenty-first century.