Social policy in Ireland : principles, practice and problems / edited by Seán Healy, Brigid Reynolds, and Micheál L. Collins.
Material type: TextPublication details: Dublin, Ireland : Liffey Press, 2006.Edition: Rev. and updated edDescription: xii, 468 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781905785025 (pbk.) :
- 190578502X (pbk.)
- 9781905785025 (pbk.)
- 361.9415 HEA
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Includes bibliographical references.
1.Progress and public policy: the need for a new paradigm -- 2.Equality -- 3.The common good of a pluralistic society -- 4.Evidence-based social-policy making -- 5.Projecting Ireland\'s population at a time of major demographic change -- 6.Social partnership and the policy process -- 7.Poverty: measurement, trends and future directions -- 8.The changing patterns of income distribution and inequality in Ireland, 1973-2004 -- 9.The EU\'s social inclusion indicators and their implications for Ireland 10.Basic income: recent analyses for Ireland -- 11.Taxation policy and reform -- 12.Work, employment and unemployment -- 13.Housing in Ireland: philosophy, problems and policies -- 14.Health policy in Ireland -- 15.Neo-liberalism and education -- 16.Rural development: policy themes and measures of the early twenty-first century -- 17.Migtation in Ireland: a changing reality -- 18.Family and family policy -- 19.Negotiating power and powerlessness: community interests and partnership in rural Ireland -- 20.Social capital and well-being in Ireland -- 21.The economic challenge of sustainability -- 22.The economics of altruism in a time of affluence.
Covers many of the major issues in the area of: health care, rural development, immigration, taxation, education, equality, social capital and more.