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Social Policy responses to AIDS are much in accord with prevailing practice in other areas, the constructs used are typical of crime and disorder rather than illness and treatment. This article analyses the implications of this particularly as it relates to policy on prevention. It questions the value of using analytic frameworks evolved in identifying moral panics and suggest that homophibic and racist social policy responses to AIDS link with a prevailing construct of dangerousness. This argument is related to the impact of AIDS and responses to it on the distinction between the public and private world. Finally AIDS policy is located within an analysis of public expenditure and a consistent emphasis on a presentation of generosity hiding a pratice of parsimony is identified.

Active welfare -- Agency -- Altruism -- Assitance and payments -- Asylum seeker -- Autonomy -- Basic income -- Benefit -- Beveridgian welfare -- Bismarckian model -- Black economy -- Body -- Bureaucracy -- Capabilities -- Capitalism -- Care/carer/caring -- Categorical benefits -- Child allowances -- Citizenship -- Class -- Claw-back -- Collectivism -- Commodification and decommodification -- Communitarian -- Community -- Comparative social policy -- Conditionality -- Convergence -- Corporation -- Crisis of welfare -- Critical junctures -- Democracy -- Dependency -- Deserving/undeserving -- Disability -- Discretion -- Discrimination -- Diswelfares -- Division of labour -- Earnings -- Eligibility -- Employment -- Entitlement -- Environmentalism -- Equality -- Ethnicity -- Fabianism -- Families of nations -- Family -- Feminism -- Fiscal welfare -- Flexicurity -- Functionings -- Gender -- Globalization -- Global social policy -- Health -- Household -- Human capital.

The Penn School of Social Policy and Practice enjoys a reputation as Penn's social justice school, for its faculty actively strives to translate the highest ideals into workable programs that better people's lives. In this election year, as Americans debate issues like immigration, crime, mass incarceration, policing, and welfare reform, and express concerns over increasing inequality, tax policy, and divisions by race, sex, and class, "SP2," as the school is colloquially known, offers its expertise in addressing the pressing matters of our day. The practical solutions on offer in this volume showcase the judgment and commitment of the school's scholars and practitioners, working to change politics from blood sport to common undertakings.

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This paper provides an analysis of the broad policy agenda pursued by governments led by John Howard during the period 1996–2004. During this period, market economics has tended to dominate social policy. The paper provides a brief history of social policy during these governments, especially in relation to education, Indigenous affairs, retirement policy, women and regional issues, and social services. The paper concludes that social policy during this period has been characterised by an emphasis on conservative social values, control of the policy process, mainstreaming, market models of service delivery and individual responsibility over government provision.

Social policy and the social sciences more generally, have tended to emphasise links, activities and processes occurring 'within' nation states to the neglect of those cutting across them. This 'methodological nationalism' is increasingly being questioned as transnational processes, be they 'from above' or 'from below', institutionalised or non-institutionalised, formal or informal, have become more significant over the last half century. The spread of activities, links and ties beyond national borders has become more extensive and the interactions themselves have become more intensive. In the light of these changes, the aim of this themed section is to draw attention to the transnational dimensions of social policy and advance the study of transnationalism in relation to social policy and welfare.

Feminists have a specific critique of state services and social security because of the way women are made individually dependent on men and yoked with the state in meeting needs. There are two key guidelines for planning any socialist welfare policy in capitalist society: (1) advances are possible, because popular demands are not merely antithetical to capitalist interests, but (2) advances that would destroy the capital-labour relation cannot be achieved under capitalism. In this context the feminist campaign for 'disaggregation' is a promising one. Feminist campaigns involve work within and in alliance with many existing organisations and men should recognise that feminist demands are central to any socialist strategy on social policy.

The author analyzes data about the present social situation in Croatia & the state of social policy reforms. The indicators of social situation are very unfavorable as a result of a decade of dramatic changes: very high level of unemployment, high percentage of retired persons, growing social inequality, permanent financial crisis of social security systems. In the second part of his paper the author describes recently initiated or planned social policy reforms in the sectors of old age pension systems, health care, protection of the unemployed, social welfare, family policy, labor market & education polices. 1 Appendix, 17 References. Adapted from the source document.

'Enabling Social Europe' examines how the paradigm of the 'enabling welfare state' might offer a new perspective for European social policy in the decades to come. The 'enabling' concept is perceived as going beyond that of mere 'activation', thus also embracing policies aimed at increasing personal autonomy, individual responsibility and social inclusion by endowing individuals with the resources and capabilities needed to manage and balance their life courses in a better way.The study is distinguished by a unique collaboration of social and economic policy experts coming from a wide range of disciplines: economics, law, sociology, political science, and philosophy. The authors seek to shed new light on whether European social policy ought to play a role in the future and, if so, what sort of role that could be. They convincingly argue that despite an implicit normative consensus on the 'European social model', there is still room for a multifaceted world in which welfare regimes can maintain their own path-dependent ways of achieving a fair and just society with a high level of welfare for all.The empirical part of the book contains an appraisal of policies and reforms with a view to the 'enabling welfare state' approach in four important policy areas: health care, old-age security, family policy, and poverty prevention. Within each sector, the authors compare the policies and practices of two countries attributable to different regime types: Germany and the United Kingdom, Poland and Germany, Finland and Estonia, and Belgium and Denmark.This book is highly recommendable not only for scholars and policymakers active in this field, but also for students of welfare and labour economics, sociology, social policy, political science and law.

"Key Themes in Social Policy provides an accessible and authoritative introduction to the key concepts used in social policy, from autonomy to wellbeing. With over 100 ideas discussed, this is a comprehensive student guide and is designed to help readers to gain a deeper understanding of major debates and issues. Each entry explains the origin of the word, discusses its relationship to the social sciences describes its relevance to social policy and how widespread its use is, and outlines some of the key thinkers and research on the topic and gives suggestions for further reading. Making it easy to understand and use the most important ideas in the area, this is an essential companion for all students taking social policy courses."--Provided by publisher.