Social Administration & Welfare

This book traces the development of the Korean welfare state, arguing that it presents a unique challenge to existing theoretical propositions underlying social policy development. Drawing on both Western and Korean literature, it examines the implementation of social policy programs both before and..

The Social Fund has been a controversial instrument of social policy in the UK since its introduction in 1988. This book brings together new research and debate on the role and effect of the Social Fund in relieving poverty, and introduces evidence and comparisons from the wider European field...

This title was first published in 2000:  Investigating how poverty has developed in contemporary Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, this book also describes what characterizes such households and analyzes the dynamics of poverty...

When the state punishes criminals or removes children at risk, its power is immediately apparent. However, power is also at stake when the state seeks to educate, advise, or empower citizens, and this book encourages reflection on the exercise of professional power in these less coercive encounters...

Originally published in 1984, Privatisation and the Welfare State brings together a distinguished set of experts on the Welfare State and its main policy areas of health care, housing, education and transport...

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Remaking Community addresses the interlinking uses of community in government rhetoric and policy. It explores why the concept of communities became so central to the New Labour governing project that aspired to broker a new form of citizenship based on reciprocity and individual responsibility. And..

Remaking Community addresses the interlinking uses of community in government rhetoric and policy. It explores why the concept of communities became so central to the New Labour governing project that aspired to broker a new form of citizenship based on reciprocity and individual responsibility. And..

In this book Max Koch develops a theoretical model to understand the restructuring of labour markets and social structures of advanced capitalist countries on the basis of the 'regulation approach'. This approach is then applied to comparative analysis of the national trajectories of the UK, Germany..

In this book Max Koch develops a theoretical model to understand the restructuring of labour markets and social structures of advanced capitalist countries on the basis of the 'regulation approach'. This approach is then applied to comparative analysis of the national trajectories of the UK, Germany..

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Published in the year 2002, Selected Works RD Laing: Self & Other V2 is a valuable contribution to the field of Major Works...