POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy

This important book brings together many of the leading contributors in the field and provides a compelling manifesto for change in social justice.

This edition of Social Policy Review presents an extensive analysis of the coalition government's social policies and is essential reading for social policy academics and students and for anyone who is interested in the implications of government policy.

Based on a unique longitudinal study, this timely book examines the initiatives introduced to help families and the impacts on them, their future prospects and the implications for policy.

Bringing together a range of expert contributions, this book is the first to address the relationship between the economic crisis and social policy within an international context. The key lesson to emerge is that 'the crisis' is better understood as a variety of crises, each mediated by national context.

This valuable collection is the first to identify how social solidarity across Europe is being re-invented from below and redefined from above.

A unique insider's perspective of news production in Britain which gives readers a flavour of what goes on in news rooms, pressure groups, departmental policy divisions and parliament.

Taking a comparative perspective, this book casts new light on the changing inequalities in Europe.

Using many data sources, this timely book provides a comprehensive discussion of issues of wealth, looking at potential policy responses, including 'asset-based' welfare and taxation.

An examination of the achievements and potential of applied happiness scholarship in diverse cultures and domains, arguing that progressive policies require a substantial and explicit consideration of happiness.

This book brings together theoretical, methodological and policy-relevant contributions by leading researchers on international child poverty. 

This original and topical book tells the untold stories of migrants' experiences of, and responses to, financial exclusion in London.

Social Policy Review is essential reading for social policy academics and students and for anyone who is interested in the implications of government policy.