Exploring the World of Social Policy: An International Approach

By Michael Hill and Zoe Irving

Book Overview

This bold new textbook represents a significant step forward in social policy teaching by combining comparative and global perspectives.

Introducing readers to a wide spread of international challenges and issues, the book shows how insights into policy can be generated using a comparative and multidisciplinary approach. Global in its canvas and analytical in its method, the book:

- explores the economic, social and political contexts of social policy;

- examines in detail its institutions and fields of practice;

- illustrates the field's main ideas, themes and practices, drawing on a rich international literature and using pertinent and thought-provoking examples.

Authored by two highly respected and experienced academics, this book demonstrates the rewards of studying social policy from an international perspective by avoiding the constraints of a single-nation focus. Clear, authoritative and wide-ranging, it will be essential reading for students of social sciences taking courses covering social policy, social welfare and comparative policy analysis.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1447335007
• ISBN13: 9781447335009
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.6" x 9.5"