Description: What Is Social Policy? : Understanding the Welfare State, Paperback by Beland, Daniel, ISBN 0745645844, ISBN-13 9780745645841, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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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Book Title: What Is Social Policy? : Understanding the Welfare State
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Name: What Is Social Policy?
Language: English
Publisher: Polity Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2010
Subject: Public Policy / Social Policy
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 11.4 Oz
Subject Area: Political Science
Author: Daniel Beland
Item Length: 8.3 in
Item Width: 5.8 in
Series: Political Sociology Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
