{"product_id":"social-policy-review-25-9781447312741","title":"Social Policy Review 25","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis latest edition of Social Policy Review presents an up-to-date and diverse review of the best in social policy scholarship with a special focus  on work, employment and insecurity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The choice of papers is evidence of an increasing internationalisation of the Social Policy Association. ..All of the chapters address important questions\" Malcolm Torry, Basic Income News\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart One: Contemporary debates and developments in the UK Introducing Universal Credit ~ Paul Spicker Reconciling fuel poverty and climate change policy under the Coalition government: Green Deal or no deal? ~ Carolyn Snell and Harriet Thomson Doctors in the driving seat? Reforms in NHS primary care and commissioning ~ Elke Heins Financing later life: pensions, care, housing equity and the new politics of old age ~ Debora Price and Lynne Livsey Part Two: Contributions from the Social Policy Association\/East Asian Social Policy Research Network Conference of 2012 It’s time to move on from ‘race’? The official ‘invisibilisation’  of minority ethnic disadvantage ~ Gary Craig and Maggie O’Neill Corporations as political actors: new perspectives for health policy research ~ Ben Hawkins and Anne Roemer-Mahler Square pegs and round holes: extending existing typologies fails to capture the complexities of Chinese social policy ~ Dan Horsfall and Sabrina Chai The Earned Income Tax Credit as an anti-poverty programme: palliative or cure? ~ Phyllis Jeroslow Social policy and culture: the cases of Japan and South Korea ~ Nam K. Jo Load-shedding and reloading: changes in government responsibility – the case of Israeli immigration and integration policy, 2004–10 ~ Ilana Shpaizman Part Three:  Themed section: work, employment and insecurity ‘What unemployment means’ three decades and two recessions later ~ Adrian Sinfield Precarious employment and EU employment regulation ~ Julia S. O’Connor How do activation policies affect social citizenship? The issue of autonomy ~ Silke Bothfeld and Sigrid Betzelt Modernising social security for lone parents: avoiding fertility and unemployment traps when reforming social policy in Northern Europe ~ Anders Freundt, Simon Grundt Straubinger and Jon Kvist Women, families and the ‘Great Recession’ in the UK ~ Susan Harkness","brand":"Bristol University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040036553047,"sku":"9781447312741","price":77.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781447312741.jpg?v=1750945583","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/social-policy-review-25-9781447312741","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}