Dismantling the NHS?
Evaluating the Impact of Health Reforms
“An insightful and incisive account of the most controversial health policy reform since the foundation of the UK National Health Service. Essential reading.”—Huw T. O. Davies, University of St Andrews
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Policy Analysis in the United States
“This collection offers a unique and valuable set of perspectives on the history of policy analysis, changes in the field over recent decades, and current challenges facing practitioners.”—Michael E. Kraft, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
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Research and Policy in Ethnic Relations
Compromised Dynamics in a Neoliberal Era
“A lucid collection at the cutting edge of critical engagement with how academic research may be used or ignored, this book stands out as a novel and distinct contribution to our understanding and will be of vital use to researchers and practitioners alike.”—Nasar Meer, Strathclyde University
Contemporary Issues in Social Policy: Challenges for Change
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Nannies, Migration and Early Childhood Education and Care
An International Comparison of In-home Childcare Policy and Practice
“The growing interest in ‘in-home care’ by parents, governments, and early childhood practitioners make this book a timely and essential read for social policy scholars and public policy professionals.”—Elizabeth Hill, University of Sydney
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Reconstructing Retirement
Work and Welfare in the UK and USA
“I recommend Lain’s work to all occupational scientists interested in work and retirement, or more generally, in the ways government policy actively and passively influences people’s occupational opportunities, choices, and experiences. These are indeed matters of occupational justice.”—Journal of Occupational Science
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Spatial Planning and Resilience Following Disasters
International and Comparative Perspectives
“In times of growing awareness on the crucial role of spatial planning in disaster recovery and resilience building, this book meets the challenge outstandingly by bringing together prominent contributors from academia, research, and policy making to judge remediation efforts after calamities with an indelible imprint on the human history.”—Sapountzaki Kalliopi, Harokopio University, Greece
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Social Policy Review 28
Analysis and Debate In Social Policy, 2016
“Social Policy Review is essential reading for up-to-date analysis of the key social policy issues of the day, by authors who know their subjects inside-out.”—Jane Millar, University of Bath
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