Social policy : a comparative analysis / Michael Hill.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Prentice Hall, 1996.Description: xv, 344p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780133539059 (pbk.) :
- 0133539059 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 361.6 HIL
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-337) and index.
Part 1: Themes in the Comparative Analysis of Social Policy. 1.Welfare and the state -- 2.Explaining the Development of social policy -- 3.Comparative theory. Part II: Specific areas of social policy. 4.Income maintenance -- 5.Health policy -- 6.Social care -- 7.Housing policy -- 8.Employmnet policy -- 9.Education policy -- 10.Environmental policy. Part III: Social policy, society and the state. 11.Who gets what: social divisions of welfare -- 12.Whither social policy
This is an overview of social policy which deals with policy issues. In doing so it introduces key concepts, issues about the performance of policies and the ways in which writers have sought to explain policy characteristics.