1st Edition
What's Your Problem? Making Sense of Social Problems and the Policy Process
Introduction
Section 1 - Reading policy
Chapter 1 - Making claims and using frames
Chapter 2 - Equivalence and difference
Chapter 3 - Legitimate assumptions
Section 2 - Writing policy
Chapter 4 - The role of the analyst
Chapter 5 - What do you think?
Chapter 6 - Making your case
Section 3 - Performaing Policy
Chapter 7 - Models of the Policy Process
Chapter 8 - Power and Influence
Chapter 9 - Making a difference
Conclusion
Biography
Stuart Connor is a lecturer in social policy at the University of Birmingham. His teaching and research interests include critical approaches to the analysis of contemporary social policy and practice. This work includes examining the role of governments, trade unions, NGOs, social movements and community practitioners in the fabrication of ‘social problems’ and attempts to legitimate and challenge particular policy responses.
Yes, law and policy as supplementary reading. I like the fact it is small and offers a different approach to most books looking at social policy. - Liam Foster, University of SheffieldThe book is very thought provoking and potentially helpful to Social Work Students grappling with the broad menu of social policy issues. I would recommend this as background reading. The book essentially sets out to 'demystify' social policy in a suitably robust yet engaging way that should lead readers to see the world around them in a slightly clearer manner regarding politics, policy and media/cultural/community drivers for change. - Scott Parker, University of Northampton
