Description
Book SynopsisThis second edition of a highly successful textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to social policy in Ireland addressing a range of social policy topics of growing importance in contemporary Irish society including issues related to children, service users and groups, migration, ethnicity, sexuality and climate change.
Trade Review"This book by Considine and Dukelow ... covers an expansive range of key social policy issues in one volume ... A definite winner!" Irish Journal of Public Policy (review of the 1st edition)
"The authors have done students of Irish social policy - those in Ireland as well as those outside - a service. They have composed a comprehensive, balanced and well-organised text that will earn it an enduring place in academic work on Irish social policy." Journal of Social Policy (review of the 1st edition)
"Irish students of social policy are lucky to have this text ... [it] is a mighty achievement and an invaluable contribution." Critical Social Policy
Table of ContentsIntroducing social policy; Section I Approaching Social Policy: from the past to the present; From the seventeenth century to the early twentieth century: the emergence of social policy in Ireland; From the 1920s to the 1970s: the development of social policy in Ireland; From the 1980s to the present: social policy in context; Section II Explaining Social Policy: concepts, politics and ideology; Social policy and the welfare state: origins, developments and reform; Political Ideologies, Welfare and Social Policy; Contemporary theories and debates in social policy: Ireland in a wider context; Section III Analysing Irish Social Policy I: social services; Social protection policy; Health policy; Education policy; Housing policy; Section IV Analysing Irish Social Policy II: social groups and sustainability; Social groups and social policy: recognition and rights; Social groups and social policy: identity and diversity; Social policy, the environment and sustainability.
