268 Pages
by
Routledge
268 Pages
by
Routledge
268 Pages
by
Routledge
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Social policy affects everyone and is everyone's business. Even if you do not receive welfare payments, directly or indirectly you benefit from government servides and funding. Yet how are policies and programs actually developed? Can social policy help us create a more just society? This book offers an introduction to the theory and practice of social policy making in Australia. Using detailed... Read more
Tables and figures
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction
PART I MAKING SOCIAL POLICY IN AUSTRALIA
1 Towards a framework for understanding and participating in social policy making
2 Why the historical and current context matters
3 Debates about social goals
4 Organisational maps and policy making
5 Working in organisations
6 Disputes about policy process: governments, citizens and markets
7 The policy process as power and contest
PART II CASE STUDIES
Introduction
8 Pathways to excellence: developing Aboriginal education policy ELEANOR BOURKE
9 How violence against women became an issue on the national policy agenda WENDY WEEKS AND KATE KILMORE
10 The Kurds - who are they? Established Kurdish identity in Victoria HURRIYET BABACAN
11 Low-start mortgages: implementation problems in a deregulated finance economy TONY DALTON
12 Policy and planning in community s
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction
PART I MAKING SOCIAL POLICY IN AUSTRALIA
1 Towards a framework for understanding and participating in social policy making
2 Why the historical and current context matters
3 Debates about social goals
4 Organisational maps and policy making
5 Working in organisations
6 Disputes about policy process: governments, citizens and markets
7 The policy process as power and contest
PART II CASE STUDIES
Introduction
8 Pathways to excellence: developing Aboriginal education policy ELEANOR BOURKE
9 How violence against women became an issue on the national policy agenda WENDY WEEKS AND KATE KILMORE
10 The Kurds - who are they? Established Kurdish identity in Victoria HURRIYET BABACAN
11 Low-start mortgages: implementation problems in a deregulated finance economy TONY DALTON
12 Policy and planning in community s
Biography
Tony Dalton, Mary Draper and John Wiseman all lecture in the Department of Social Work and Social Sciences at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Wendy Weeks is Senior Lecturer in Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Melbourne.
