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Understanding Global Social Policy
Nicola (Ed) Yeates
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Description for Understanding Global Social Policy
Paperback. Understanding Global Social Policy is the leading textbook in the field and provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of international actors and social policy formation in global context and includes new chapters on global poverty and inequality, social protection, criminal justice and education. Editor(s): Yeates, Nicola. Series: Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice Series. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JFF; JKS; JPQB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 173 x 19. Weight in Grams: 574.
Building on the successes of Understanding Global Social Policy (Yeates ed. 2008) and its companion text, the Global Social Policy Reader (Yeates and Holden ed. 2009), the second edition of this leading textbook in social policy identifies and reviews the key issues, debates and priorities for action in global social policy as a field of academic study and research and as a field of political practice and action. All first edition chapters have been systematically revised and updated to reflect major developments in the fast-paced area of global social policy making over the past five years, and include new material ... Read more
Building on the successes of Understanding Global Social Policy (Yeates ed. 2008) and its companion text, the Global Social Policy Reader (Yeates and Holden ed. 2009), the second edition of this leading textbook in social policy identifies and reviews the key issues, debates and priorities for action in global social policy as a field of academic study and research and as a field of political practice and action. All first edition chapters have been systematically revised and updated to reflect major developments in the fast-paced area of global social policy making over the past five years, and include new material ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bristol University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice Series
Condition
New
Weight
576g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447310242
SKU
V9781447310242
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About Nicola (Ed) Yeates
Nicola Yeates is Professor of Social Policy at The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. She has published widely on issues of globalisation and social policy, including on global migration, social protection and employment (see Open Research Online (www.oro.open.ac.uk). She is a former Editor-in-Chief of Global Social Policy (Sage) and Vice-Chair of the Social Policy Association, and is Chair of the ... Read more
Reviews for Understanding Global Social Policy
"This book presents a theoretical perspective that stands at the threshold of a new and rich area of study that will help us better understand the complex set of processes that determine human welfare in the future." Social Policy & Administration "Nicola Yeates has brought together an impressive, coherent collection of contributors providing comprehensive coverage of developments in global social ... Read more