Policy Press imprint: 558 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
This book explores the challenges of applying disability theory and policy, including the social model of disability, to madness and distress. It brings together leading scholars and activists from Europe, North America, Australia and India, to explore the relationship between madness, distress and...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
The politics of austerity has seen governments across Europe cut back on welfare provision. As the State retreats, this edited collection explores secular and faith-based grassroots social action in Germany and the United Kingdom that has evolved in response to changing economic policy and expanding...
by Scott, Sam
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
Labour exploitation is a highly topical though complex issue that has international resonance for those concerned with social justice and social welfare, but there is a lack of research available about it. This book, part of the Studies in Social Harm series, is the first to look at labour exploitation...
Adolescent-to-parent abuse
Current understandings in research, policy and practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
While much has been written about the problematic behaviour of young people and their families, there has been silence on the problem of young people behaving abusively towards their parents, which may take the form of physical, economic and/or emotional abuse. This is the first academic book to...
Welfare, Inequality and Social Citizenship
Deprivation and Affluence in Austerity Britain
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
Exploring the lived realities of both poverty and prosperity in the UK, this book examines the material and symbolic significance of welfare austerity and its implications for social citizenship and inequality. The book offers a rare and vivid insight into the everyday lives, attitudes and behaviours...
Paying for the welfare state in the 21st century
Tax and spending in post-industrial societies
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
What does the future hold for the welfare state in the post-industrial 21st century? Political and economic forces are threatening the taxation regimes of highly globalised, capitalist societies, prompting an urgent debate around the function of the welfare state and how we pay for it. In a challenge...
Towards just and sustainable economies
The social and solidarity economy North and South
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
With capitalism in crisis - rising inequality, unsustainable resource depletion and climate change all demanding a new economic model - the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) has been suggested as an alternative. What can contribute in terms of generating livelihoods that provide a dignified life,...
Ethics of care
Critical advances in international perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Over the last 20 years there has been a flourishing of work on feminist care ethics. This collection makes a unique contribution to this body of work. The international contributors demonstrate the significance of care ethics as a transformative way of thinking across diverse geographical, policy...
Restructuring public transport through Bus Rapid Transit
An international and interdisciplinary perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is commonly discussed as an affordable way for cities to build sustainable rapid transport infrastructure. This book is the first to offer an in-depth analysis of BRT, examining the opportunities it presents along with the significant challenges cities face in its implementation....
by Fisher, Karen, Shang
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
In the last 20 years, state care in China has shifted away from institutional care, towards alternative care that recognises children’s rights to an inclusive childhood and adulthood. This book reviews changes in policy and practices that affected the generation of young people who grew up in state...
Demystifying evaluation
Practical approaches for researchers and users
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Social research practitioners and others working in the public and voluntary sectors, in academia and consultancy are increasingly under pressure to provide policy-related evidence with limited resources and rising expectations. Demystifying evaluation is an accessible introductory guide setting the...
New philanthropy and social justice
Debating the conceptual and policy discourse
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
There is a broad consensus that traditional philanthropy has the potential to be transformative and address inequalities and injustices, as well as provide relief to the poor. Over the last two decades individual capitalists and private corporations have become increasingly involved in philanthropy,...
Gender, ageing and extended working life
Cross-national perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Nations that are raising retirement ages appear to work on the assumption that there is appropriate employment available for people who are expected to retire later. 'Gender, ageing and extended working life' challenges both this narrative, and the gender-neutral way the expectation for extending...
Public management in transition
The orchestration of potentiality
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
This textbook is the first to examine how new trends such as “radical innovation”, “co-creation” and “potentialization” challenge fundamental values in the public sector. The authors bridge traditional public management approaches that tend to exclude social and societal problems, with...