1st Edition

Modern Social Policy

By Michael Sullivan Copyright 1994
    192 Pages
    by Routledge

    192 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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;

    Biography

    Michael Sullivan University of Wales, Swansea