Modern Social Policy

by Michael Sullivan

Overview

Considers a range of approaches to social policy provision and applies these to developments in the British welfare state. The author works from the basis that the theory and practice of social policy would benefit from a broader understanding of social, political and economic contexts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138467200
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/02/2017
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Michael Sullivan University of Wales, Swansea

Table of Contents

Part 1 Contexts of social policy; Chapter 1 Social, economic and political contexts; Chapter 2 Social policy in the 1980s and 1990s; Part 2 Understanding the state and social policy; Chapter 3 Understanding the modern British state; Chapter 4 Understanding welfare; Chapter 5 Understanding social policy; Chapter 6 Changing social services; Part 3 Conclusion; Chapter 7 Understanding modern social policy;