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Intro -- Table of Contents -- Figure, Tables and Boxes -- Figure -- Tables -- Boxes -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1: What is Social Policy? -- Hey, Big Spender! -- Butterflies versus Magpies -- Who Cares? -- A Good Life -- Intermediate human needs satisfiers -- Summary -- 2: Where did it Come From? -- From Barbarianism to Civilization? -- The Making of Capitalism -- The Taming of Capitalism -- The transition from Poor Laws to incipient welfare states -- Welfare and Ideology -- Summary -- 3: Why on Earth does it Matter? -- The Threat of Globalization? -- Globalization 'camps' -- Human population growth and its impact -- Welfare Regimes -- Ecology and Human Welfare -- Global Social Policy -- Summary -- 4: What does Human Wellbeing Entail? -- Health and Education -- Sustainable Development Goals and targets relating to health and education -- Income Maintenance and Employment -- Sustainable Development Goals and targets relating to income -- Housing and the Environment -- Sustainable Development Goals and targets relating to housing and the environment -- The 'Personal' Social Services -- Summary -- 5: Who Gets What? -- Sharing Public Goods -- Where's the Money? -- Principles of Distribution -- How does it All Pan Out? -- Summary -- 6: Who's in Control? -- The Problem of Power -- Perspectives on powerlessness -- Street-Level Organization and Local Governance -- The Nation State and the Policy Process -- Regional Governance -- Summary -- 7: What's the Trouble with Human Society? -- Diversity and Difference -- Associated diversities -- Class and Identity -- Inequality and Exclusion -- Social Change and the Life Course -- Fluid families -- Summary -- 8: Can Social Policy Solve Social Problems? -- The (De-)construction of Social Problems -- The Righting of Wrongs -- Blaming the Victim -- Crime and Anti-Social Behaviour -- Summary.

"This thoroughly revised and expanded new edition provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary social policy and addresses its historical, theoretical and contextual foundations as well as contemporary policy issues relating to health, education and welfare as well as the impact of Brexit. Divided into four sections, it opens with a survey of the socio-economic, political and governmental contexts within which social policy operates, before moving on to look at the historical development of the subject. The third section examines contemporary aspects of providing welfare, whilst the final part covers European and wider international developments"--

Bringing together the voices of leading experts in the field, this edition offers an up-to-date and diverse review of the best in social policy scholarship over the past year. This book considers a range of current issues and critical debates in UK and international social policy field. It contains vital research, including discussions on the changing landscape of occupational as well as corporate welfare in the UK, the continuing impact of austerity on various social policy areas and the challenges currently faced by the NHS.

International audience ; Today we are experiencing good improvements in policy, social policy and policy making. A lot of good researches have been done on these issues and helped for the development of policy. The contributions of university professors, politicians and elites cannot be considered low. And the academic papers are deployed to offer from the major theoretical and methodological approaches and empirical research. To put in their proper context the important contributions of the processes of social policy change in the construction of social development should make some notes theoretical and methodological research into social policy.

International audience Today we are experiencing good improvements in policy, social policy and policy making. A lot of good researches have been done on these issues and helped for the development of policy. The contributions of university professors, politicians and elites cannot be considered low. And the academic papers are deployed to offer from the major theoretical and methodological approaches and empirical research. To put in their proper context the important contributions of the processes of social policy change in the construction of social development should make some notes theoretical and methodological research into social policy.