Review: Daniel Dorling, Fair Play: A Daniel Dorling reader on social justice
In this book Daniel Dorling has brought together fifty-two of his academic papers, newspaper articles, magazine articles, and unpublished essays, to create a nicely structured and really quite...
View ArticleReview: Stuart Lowe, The Housing Debate
Stuart Lowe's The Housing Debate takes a refreshingly broad view of housing and welfare. Rather than a balanced introduction for students to current debates around housing and social policy, Lowe has a...
View ArticleReview: Peter Dwyer, Understanding Social Citizenship
The number of degree course modules on 'citizenship' is increasing, and this book is designed as a core text; but it will be useful not just to teachers and students, but also to social policy...
View ArticleReview: Tony Fitzpatrick, Welfare Theory: An introduction to the theoretical...
This accessible and thoroughly researched book is also a vindication of Fitzpatrick’s conviction that ‘welfare theory’ – the philosophy of social policy – is a discipline in its own right. Welfare...
View ArticleReview: Kevin Farnsworth and Zoë Irving (eds), Social Policy in Challenging...
Whilst in all of the countries studied in this edited collection the welfare state can be regarded as entering a new age of austerity, the picture that emerges is one of diversity: of different kinds...
View ArticleReview: Thomas Bahle, Vanessa Hubl, and Michaela Pfeifer, The Last Safety...
This thoroughly researched survey of European means-tested minimum income protection (MIP) systems – the safety-nets into which households and individuals fall if other earned or benefits income is...
View ArticleReview: Social Policy and Administration
As Bent Greve writes in his introduction to this highly topical edition of Social Policy and Administration, the financial crisis which began in 2008 has given rise to ‘a new era of welfare states …...
View ArticleReview: Beverley A. Searle, Well-being: In search of a good life
In this thorough and very readable book Beverley Searle employs extensive panel survey data to study people’s subjective well-being and the economic and material contexts of their lives. A complex...
View ArticleReview: Paul Spicker, How Social Security Works: An introduction to benefits...
Paul Spicker, How Social Security Works: An introduction to benefits in Britain, Policy Press, 2011, xii + 284 pp, hbk 1847428110, £65, pbk, 1847428103, £23.99 This well-organised book is what it says...
View ArticleReview: Graham Room, Complexity, Institutions and Public Policy: Agile...
Graham Room, Complexity, Institutions and Public Policy: Agile decision-making in a turbulent world, Edward Elgar, 2011, vii + 383pp, hbk, 0 85793 263 1, £95 This is one of those rare books which...
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