{"product_id":"social-policy-review-24-9781447304470","title":"Social Policy Review 24","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSocial Policy Review is essential reading for social policy academics and students and for anyone who is interested in the implications of government policy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This anniversary edition of SPR brings together a remarkable collection of papers whose coverage is as global as the 'crisis' that the political class seeks to manage. SPR continues to earn its position as a foremost source of international social policy analysis.\" Nicola Yeates, Open University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart One: Current developments ~ Majella Kilkey: Universal Credit: overview and gender implications ~ Fran Bennett; Family support and the Coalition: retrenchment, refocusing and restructuring ~ Harriet Churchill; Housing, the welfare state and the Coalition Government ~ Alan Murie;The 2012\/13 reforms of higher education in England: changing student finances and funding ~ Claire Callender; Division and opposition: the Health and Social Care Bill 2011 ~ Sally Ruane; Part Two: Social policy in the developed and developing worlds ~ Gaby Ramia: Immigrant-targeted activation policies: a comparison of the approaches in the Scandinavian welfare states ~ Karen Nielsen Breidahl; Welfare retrenchment under Left and Right government leadership: towards a consolidated framework of analysis? ~ Stefan Keuhner; From black hole to spring: the coming of age of social policy in the Arab countries? ~ Rana Jawad; China's developmental model in Africa: a new era for global social policy? ~ Marian Urbina Ferretjans and Rebecca Surrender; Part Three: Severe crisis: social policy in most challenging circumstances ~ Kevin Farnsworth: The Greek welfare state in the age of austerity: anti-social policy and the politico-economic crisis ~ Theodoros Papadopoulos and Antonis Roumpakis; From opportunity to austerity: crisis and social policy in Spain ~ Javier Ramos Diaz and Albert Varela; From financial crisis to welfare retrenchment: assessing the challenges to the Irish welfare state ~ Mairéad Considine and Fiona Dukelow; The Great Recession and US social policy: from expansion to austerity ~ Daniel Beland and Alex Wadden; Seeking refuge in the Nordic model: social policy in Iceland after 2008 ~ Zoe Irving.","brand":"Policy Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408483787095,"sku":"9781447304470","price":77.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781447304470.jpg?v=1730503068","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/social-policy-review-24-9781447304470","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}