Social justice and public policy

Herausgeber: Burchardt, Tania; Craig, Gary

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This important book explores the meaning of social justice and examines how it translates into the everyday concerns of public and social policy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Policy Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9781861349330
• ISBN-10: 1861349335
• Artikelnr.: 23483197

Autorenporträt

Gary Craig is Professor of Social Justice at the University of Hull and Associate Director of the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation. His research focuses on 'race' and ethnicity, poverty and local governance. He is President of the International Association for Community Development. Tania Burchardt is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research interests include theories of social justice, measurement of equality, and welfare and employment policy. David Gordon is Professor of Social Justice at the University of Bristol and Director of the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research. His research interests include social and distributional justice, social harm, scientific measurement of poverty, child poverty and human rights, childhood disability, crime and poverty, area-based anti-poverty measures, the causal effects of poverty on ill health, and rural poverty.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction ~ Tania Burchardt and Gary Craig; Social justice and public
policy: a view from political philosophy ~ Jonathan Wolff; Social justice
and public policy: a social policy perspective ~ David Piachaud;
Multiculturalism, social justice and the welfare state ~ Will Kymlicka;
Structural injustice and the politics of difference ~ Iris Marion Young;
Recognition and voice: the challenge for social justice ~ Ruth Lister;
Globalisation, social justice and the politics of aid ~ Christopher
Bertram; Social justice and the family ~ Harry Brighouse and Adam Swift;
Children, policy and social justice ~ David Gordon; Social justice in the
UK: one route or four? ~ Katie Schmuecker; Monitoring inequality: putting
the capability approach to work ~ Tania Burchardt; The limits of
compromise? Social justice,' race' and multiculturalism ~ Gary Craig;
Understanding environmental justice: making the connection between
sustainable development and social justice ~ Maria Adebowale.