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Subject(s)

• Social policy [Browse]
• Welfare state [Browse]
• Public welfare [Browse]

Summary note

This book provides an overall examination of social welfare and a comparative study of policies in different societies. Tom Burden also explores alternative theoretical approaches to the development of social policy.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-255) and index.

Contents

• List of Tables
• Introduction
• 1. General explanatory perspectives
• 2. Central concepts in social policy
• 3. Perspectives on social-policy development
• 4. Social-policy strategies
• 5. Social-policy issues
• 6. Social intervention and vulnerable groups in Britain
• 7. The diversity of welfare states
• 8. The developed Anglophone welfare states
• 9. Globalisation and social policy
• References
• Index.

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ISBN

• 0745309658 (hbk.)
• 0745309666 (pbk.)

OCLC

38891973

RCP

H - O

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