Critical social policy and the capability approach
Introduction / Hans-Uwe Otto and Holger Ziegler -- Part 1: Democracy and the Social -- Theoretical Foundations -- The Capability Approach and deliberative democracy / Robert Salais -- Rationality and freedom? Sen's CA and critical policy evaluation / Reńé Lehweß-Litzmann -- Capability and Freedom: Sen Re-examined / Benedikt Reusch -- Participation without Welfare? The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, feminism and the Capabilities Approach / Zoë Clark -- Capabilities and the Empirical Foundations of Critical Pragmatism / Bénédicte Zimmermann -- Part 2: Theorising Social Policy -- A Capabilities Perspective -- The Capability Perspective: Basic Features and their Relevance for Social Policy / Nicolai Suppa -- Autonomy versus constraints to market economy: What does social policy supply? / Albert Scherr -- External Capabilities and the Limits to Social Policy / William A. Jackson -- Empowerment and the Capabilities Approach in Public Health -- Some Remarks from the perspective of a scientific evaluation research / Elias Sahrai and Uwe H. Bittlingmayer -- On the relationship between the analysis of the welfare state and normative categories / Norbert Wohlfahrt -- Contributive Justice, Class Divisions and the Capabilities Approach / Andrew Sayer -- Part 3: Assessing Social Policy -- What the Capabilities Approach may provide -- What is the value added of the Capability Approach for evaluating social and labour market policy? / Alexander Goerne -- Capabilities as an assessment tool for social policies -- The example of the effects of non-formal training measures in Spain / Joan Miquel Verd and Marti López-Andreu -- Towards a more critical appraisal of social policies -- The contribution of the capability approach.