1st Edition
Social Exclusion in Great Britain An Empirical Investigation and Comparison with the EU
By Matt Barnes
Copyright 2005
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 2005. In Great Britain, the reduction of social exclusion has been at the forefront of New Labour's social policy since 1997. However, there is ambiguity about what the notion of social exclusion actually encompasses, caused in part by the limited extent of attempts to measure and understand social exclusion empirically. This key work addresses this problem, employing data... Read more
Contents: Towards an empirical operationalization of social exclusion; The operationalization of social exclusion: theoretical and policy approaches; Developing a set of quantitative indicators of social exclusion for Great Britain; Investigating the multi-dimensional nature of social exclusion in Great Britain; Investigating the longitudinal nature of social exclusion in Great Britain; Identifying social exclusion in Great Britain during the 1990s; Social exclusion in Europe: comparing the UK to other European Union Member States; Operationalizing social exclusion: implications for research and policy; Bibliography; Appendices; Index.
Biography
Matt Barnes
