Daniel Beland

What Is Social Policy?

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

From housing, pensions and family benefits, to health care, unemployment insurance and social assistance, the welfare state is a key aspect of our lives. But social programs are contested political realities that we can't hope to understand without locating them within the "big picture." This book provides a concise political and sociological introduction to social policy, helping readers to grasp the nature of social programs and the political struggles surrounding them. It takes a broad comparative and historical viewpoint on the United States, using an international perspective to contextualize American social policy within the developed world. Provocative and engaging, it offers insight into a wide range of social policy issues such as: welfare regimes, welfare state development, the politics of retrenchment and restructuring; the relationship between social programs and various forms of inequality; changing family and economic relations; the role of private social benefits; the potential impact of globalization; and debates about the future of the welfare state. What is Social Policy? will be stimulating reading for upper-level students of sociology, political science, public policy, and social work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Polity Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9780745645834
• ISBN-10: 0745645836
• Artikelnr.: 29927995

Autorenporträt

Daniel Beland is Professor of Public Policy and Sociology at the University of Saskatchewan.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables vi
Preface & Acknowledgements vii
Introduction 1
1 Social Policy and the Welfare State 9
2 The United States in International Context 44
3 Welfare State Development 66
4 Retrenchment and Restructuring 93
5 Looking Challenges 120
Conclusion 151
Notes 157
References 161