Handbook on Society and Social Policy

Edited by Nick Ellison, Professor of Social Policy, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York and Tina Haux, Social Research Association, UK

'The editors and contributors to the Handbook on Society and Social Policy are to be congratulated for producing a wide-ranging and important overview of the field which will serve as a standard reference work for many years to come. Dealing with many diverse aspects of social policy, it is particularly noteworthy for moving beyond the standard Western 'welfare state' approach which has characterized the subject in the past to incorporate valuable material from other parts of the world as well.'--James Midgley, University of California, Berkeley

• Contents:IntroductionNick Ellison/Tina HauxSection One: Ideas and concepts1.Poverty and inequalityBea Cantillon 2.Needs and RightsHartley Dean 3.CitizenshipDaniel Edmiston 4.Social Investment: Polysemy in PerspectiveJane JensonSection Two: Social Policy and Social Divisions5.ClassDavid Byrne 6.GenderElizabeth Adamson 7.Religion, Belief and Public PolicyAdam Dinham 8.Race and EthnicityNasar Meer 9.DisabilityMiro Griffiths 10.Generations and the Life CourseAthina Vlachantoni and Yazhen YangSection Three: Welfare systems11.Western and Northern EuropeBjørn Hvinden and Mi Ah Schoyen12.Eastern EuropeJana Javornik 13.Southern EuropeTheo Papadopoulos and Antonios Roumpakis 14.Liberal welfare systemsChristopher Deeming 15.Latin America: Inertia and Transformation in Five Dual Welfare RegimesCarlos Barba Solano and Enrique Valencia Lomelí 16.India: Welfare/Disfare from Nehru’s Imagination to Modi’s Dirigiste Reforms Keerty Nakray17.China: Social Policy and ReformsAlex Jingwei He, Zilin Lee and Genghua Huang 18.East AsiaGyu-Jin Hwang 19.The Middle East and North AfricaRana Jawad Section Four: Contemporary Social Policies20.PensionsKati Kuitto and Susan Kuivalainen21.Changing Work and Welfare: Unemployment and Labour Market PoliciesBernhard Ebbinghaus 22.Health Policy: In Sickness and in HealthMike Calnan 23.Social CarePatrick Hall, Catherine Needham and Kate Hamblin 24.Housing PolicyNicholas Pleace 25.Education Policy Julian L. Garritzmann 26.Family Policies and Child WellbeingLidia Panico and Morgan Kitzmann27.Criminal justiceTim Newburn Section Five: Institutions and Welfare Delivery28.The StateHugh Bochel 29.Public-Private Partnerships: The Delivery of Public Employment ServicesDan Finn 30.The Third Sector and the Welfare StateEddy Hogg 31.Fiscal WelfareNathalie Morel 32.Social, Corporate, Occupational: The ‘Whole Economy’ of WelfareKevin Farnsworth 33.Global InstitutionsAlexandra Kaasch Section Six: Contemporary Challenges34.Debt, Austerity Capitalism and the Welfare StateFiona Dukelow 35.Transnational Social Vulnerabilities and Reconfigurations of ‘Social Policy’Erica Righard and Mikael Spång 36.Welfare States, Social Policies and the Environment Håkan Johansson and Max Koch 37.Migration and the Welfare State: Welfare Magnets and Welfare ChauvinismTim Reeskens Conclusion: Looking Ahead Tina Haux and Nick EllisonIndex