Policy Press: 559 books
Agenda for Social Justice
Solutions for 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
The Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions for 2016 provides accessible insights into some of the most pressing social problems in the United States and proposes public policy responses to those problems. Written by a highly respected team of authors brought together by the Society for the Study of...
Climate Change and Poverty
A New Agenda for Developed Nations
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Climate change is the main challenge facing developed countries in the 21st century. To what extent does this agenda converge with issues of poverty and social exclusion? Climate change and poverty offers a timely new perspective on the ‘ecosocial’ understanding of the causes and symptoms of,...
Ageing through austerity
Critical perspectives from Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Demographic ageing is identified as a global challenge with significant social policy implications. This book explores these implications, with a particular focus on the pressures and prospects for ageing societies in the context of austerity. The book presents a carefully crafted study of ageing...
Infrastructure delivery planning
An effective practice approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This important text book is the first to be written about infrastructure planning in Britain. Written by an experienced author, the book reviews the rapid rise in the use of infrastructure delivery planning at national and neighbourhood level. The key components of infrastructure delivery are set...
Understanding community (second edition)
Politics, policy and practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
This substantially revised edition of a highly topical text draws upon theory from Marx and Bourdieu to offer a clearer understanding of community in capitalist society. The book takes a more critical look at the literature on community, community development and the politics of community, and applies...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Scale is an overlooked issue in the research on interactive governance. This book takes up the important task of investigating the scalar dimensions of collaborative governance in networks, partnerships, and other interactive arenas and explores the challenges of operating at a single scale, across...
Delivering personal health budgets
A guide to policy and practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Personal health budgets are an important new tool to improve the lives of people living with long-term conditions and disabilities by giving them greater choice and control over their healthcare.This is the first step-by-step guide to their implementation. Using current evidence and best practice...
Direct payments and personal budgets (third edition)
Putting personalisation into practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
In the context of the Care Act 2014, this third edition of the leading textbook on personalisation considers key policy changes since 2009 and new research into the extension and outcomes of personal budgets. Direct payments and personal budgets have developed rapidly, transforming the whole of adult...
Wealth and the wealthy
Exploring and tackling inequalities between rich and poor
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
Wealth and the wealthy have received relatively little attention from social scientists despite a growing wealth gap. Aimed at a broad social science and public readership, this book draws on new data on wealth to answer the following key questions: What is wealth? Who has got it? Where might we...
Accommodating difference
Evaluating supported housing for vulnerable people
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
For vulnerable older, disabled or homeless people who need accommodation and support, many different forms of housing have developed – whether hostels, group homes, extra-care housing or retirement villages. But do these settings effectively improve the well-being of those who live in them? This...
Challenging choices
Ideology, consumerism and policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Choice pervades our society: it is founded on political rights to choose and our economy on market choices, but we have now reached the point where choice is extended almost everywhere. This lively and topical book provides a critique of choice in contemporary society and policy, arguing that we can...
Capability-promoting policies
Enhancing individual and social development
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
How can unjust societies be overcome with a better distribution of opportunities to flourish? How can human development be revitalised in countries where social welfare is being questioned? In short, how can human development be fostered in practice? These are some of the important questions asked...
Women and criminal justice
From the Corston Report to Transforming Rehabilitation
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
This insightful book focuses on developments since the publication in 2007 of the Corston Report into women and criminal justice. While some of its recommendations were accepted by government, actual policy has restricted the scale and scope of change. The challenges of working with women in the current...
The challenge of sustainability
Linking politics, education and learning
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
This timely and accessible book explores the links between politics, learning and sustainability. Its central focus is the future of people and the planet itself. The challenges that we face in combatting climate change and building a more sustainable world are complex and the book argues that if...