Bob Deacon

Global Social Policy and Governance

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

`[This] is essential reading for advanced students as well as all others seriously interested in improving the human condition. Nuanced and critical, Deacon's book offers a much needed and constructive guide to the complex supernational debates over rights, regulation and redistribution impinging on social welfare all over the world' - Jomo K.S., United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Economic DevelopmentHow do global actors contribute to national and international social policy? How have the terms of global social policy discourse shifted in recent years? Global Social Policy and Governance explores these issues and presents a critical analysis of policy-making in an interconnected world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 600g
• ISBN-13: 9781412907613
• ISBN-10: 1412907616
• Artikelnr.: 22524073

Autorenporträt

Bob Deacon is Professor of Social Policy, Director of the International Social Policy Research Unit (ISPRU) and manages the Globalism and Social Policy Programme (GASPP) which is based both in Finland and the UK. Michelle Hulse and Paul Stubbs are both research assistants with ISPRU.

Inhaltsangabe

The International and Global Dimensions of Social Policy
The Social Policy of the World Bank
The Social Policy of the IMF, WTO and OECD
The Social Policy of the UN and Its Social Agencies
The Social Policy of International Non-State Actors
Global Redistribution, Regulation and Rights
The Governance of Global and Regional Social Policy
Conclusions and Implications for the Analysis and Future of Social Policy
Nationally and Globally