Social Policy /
edited by Hugh Bochel and Guy Daly.
- Third edition.
- London : Routledge, 2014.
- xvi, 634 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 25 cm
Previous edition: 2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This thoroughly updated edition provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary social policy, and addresses its historical, theoretical and contextual foundations. Divided into four sections, it opens with a survey of the socio-economic, political and governmental contexts within which social policy operates, before moving on to look at the historical development of the subject. The third section examines contemporary aspects of providing welfare, whilst the final part covers European and wider international developments.