Titlebook: Developments in British Social Policy; Nick Ellison (Lecturer in Sociology and Social Pol Textbook 1998Latest edition Macmillan Publishers

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Social Policy and Social Movements: Ecology and Social Policyolistic approach is that ecological considerations cut across many traditional policy areas, and therefore require a newer, more integrated approach to policy making than has traditionally been the case.

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Theory in British Social Policyy’ is essentially normative (at its worst, a wish-list of the way we would like things to be), whilst what is really important are ‘the facts’, which once allowed to ‘speak for themselves’, will tell us not just what is going on, but also what needs to be done. This view is misconceived. Whilst all

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New Conceptions of Citizenshipby examining how and why citizenship has assumed this strategic importance. A central issue is citizenship’s contested nature. This is explored in relation to (1) a shift in emphasis in British political discourse from a rights- to an obligations-based construction of citizenship, and (2) the ways i

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Social Policy and Human Needral importance of need in defining the scope of its subject matter. This importance is soon grasped if one considers some of the reasons why social policies are made and implemented in the form of social provisions. The main reason is that social policies are meant to meet the needs of people in var

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Social Welfare and Associative Democracycial democratic parties, for whom universal benefits and collectivised state services were a defining political doctrine, are now contemplating a radical reduction of the scale and scope of the welfare state (see Chapter 2 of this volume). There are many reasons why welfare funding and services are

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Employment Policycused on how this might be contained. In academic and political terms, labour markets and employment are commonly viewed as the remit of economic policy. Recent and current unemployment crises appear as a residual of a poorly functioning economy – where the production of goods and services is insuff

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