Hartley Dean's Social Policy

Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Preface

  1. What is Social Policy?
    1. Hey, big spender!
    2. Butterflies vs. Magpies
    3. Who cares?
    4. A good life
    5. Summary
  2. Where did it come from?
    1. From barbarianism to civilisation?
    2. The making of capitalism
    3. The taming of capitalism
    4. Welfare and ideology
    5. Summary
  3. Why on Earth does it matter?
    1. The threat of globalisation?
    2. Welfare regimes
    3. Ecology and human welfare
    4. Global Social Policy
    5. Summary
  4. What does human wellbeing entail?
    1. Health and education
    2. Income maintenance and employment
    3. Housing and the environment
    4. The ‘personal' social services
    5. Summary
  5. Who gets what?
    1. Sharing public goods
    2. Where's the money?
    3. Principles of distribution
    4. How does it all pan out?
    5. Summary
  6. Who's in control?
    1. The problem of power
    2. Street-level organisation and local governance
    3. The nation state and the policy process
    4. Regional governance
    5. Summary
  7. What's the trouble with human society?
    1. Diversity and difference
    2. Class and identity
    3. Inequality and exclusion.
    4. Social change and the life course
    5. Summary
  8. Can Social Policy solve social problems?
    1. The (de-)construction of problems
    2. The righting of wrongs
    3. Blaming the victim?
    4. Crime and anti-social behaviour
    5. Summary
  9. How are the times a-changing?
    1. The crisis of welfare
    2. The ‘new' Social Policy
    3. Welfare pluralism and new managerialism
    4. Post-modernity and ‘risk society'
    5. Summary
  10. Where is Social Policy going?
    1. Welfare without the state?
    2. An anti-capitalist agenda
    3. A Third Way consensus?
    4. A politics of needs interpretation

Summary
References

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Publication details for Hartley Dean's Social Policy

176 pages

ISBN (hardback): 9780745634340
ISBN (paperback): 9780745634357

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