Understanding global social policy
- Author/Editor(s):
- Nicola Yeates
- Format:
- Paperback
, 352 pages
, 240 x 172 mm
Other formats available - ISBN
- 9781861349439
- Published:
- 30 Jun 2008
- Series:
- Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice series
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Nicola Yeates has brought together an impressive, coherent collection of contributors providing comprehensive coverage of developments in global social policy across a wide range of policy areas. The relationship between globalisation and social policy is one that is rapidly evolving and differentiated. This collection successfully captures these dynamics while at the same time providing empirical substance to developments at a particular point in time.
Patricia Kennett, Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
About This Book
This is the first student-aimed textbook that comprehensively engages with this growing field of study, examining the key theoretical and policy debates and issues. Written by an international team of leading social policy analysts, it examines the impact of the prefix 'global' on the ways in which social policy as a field of study is constructed and explores how the globalising strategies of state and non-state actors intersect with social policy concerns. The book emphasises the role of supra-national organisations and international actors in social policy formation and highlights the 'bottom-up' and 'top-down' pressures. It provides an historical perspective on current developments and debates in global social policy and focuses on policy processes, content and impacts
Author Biography
Nicola Yeates is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the Open University, Milton Keynes, England. She has extensive research experience in the area of globalisation, migration and social policy, and is co-Editor of Global Social Policy.Contents
The idea of global social policy - Nicola Yeates
Global and regional social governance - Bob Deacon
The global transfer of social policy - Rob Hulme and Moira Hulme
Business and global social policy formation - Kevin Farnsworth
International trade and welfare - Christopher Holden
Global labour policy - Robert O'Brien
Global health policy - Meri Koivusalo and Eeva Ollila
Global housing and urban policy - Sunil Kumar
Global pensions policy - Mitchell Orenstein
Global migration policy - Nicola Yeates
Global population policy - Sarah Sexton, Larry Lohmann and Nicolas Hildyard
Conclusion - Nicola Yeates.
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