Social Policy Review 20
Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2008
Distributed for Policy Press at the University of Bristol
320 pages
Social Policy Review provides students, academics and all those interested in welfare issues with critical analyses of progress and change in areas of major interest during the past year.Contributions reflect key themes in the UK and internationally. The first part of the collection focuses on developments and change in core UK social policy areas. Part two provides in-depth analyses of topical issues from both UK and international perspectives, while this year's themed section examines 'Gender and policy'.
Contents
List of tables and boxes
List of abbreviations
Notes on contributors
Introduction
List of abbreviations
Notes on contributors
Introduction
Part One: Current developments
1. A year of transition in post-compulsory education and training
Alastair Thomson
2. Planning for infrastructure and housing—is sustainable development a dream?
Roberta Blackman-Woods
3. Towards a new pension settlement? Recent pension reform in the UK
Debora Price
4. Climate change and climate change policy in the UK 2006–07
Carolyn Snell
5. Policy for older people in Wales
Gill Windle and Alison Porter
Part Two: Current debates
6. Flexibility or flexploitation? Problems with work-life balance in a low-income neighbourhood
Hartley Dean
7. The role of confidence and identity in civic participation: exploring ethnic group differences
Nahid Ahmad
8. The problem of riches: is philanthropy a solution or part of the problem?
Beth Breeze
9. Policy from the pitch? Soccer and young refugee women in a shifting policy climate
Catherine Palmer
10. Social citizenship in post-liberal Britain and post-corporatist Germany—curtailed, fragmented, streamlined, but still on the agenda
Ingo Bode
Part Three: Engendering policy and politics
11. Gender and New Labour: after the male breadwinner model?
Gillian Pascall
12. A review of engendering policy in the EU
Jill Rubery
13. Forming Australian families: gender ideologies and policy settings
JaneMaree Maher
14. Working fathers as providers and carers: towards a new conceptualisation of fatherhood
Alison Smith
Index
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