Understanding Social Exclusion

Informationen zum Autor John Hills is Director and Professor of Social Policy at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE), London School of Economics.Julian Le Grand is the Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics. He is Chair of LSE Health and Social Care and a co-director of the Economic and Social Research Council's Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE).David Piachaud is Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics. Zusammenfassung This book explores the issue of social exclusion. It asks three main questions: How can social exclusion be measured? What are its main determinants or influences? And what policies can reduce social exclusion? The authors aim to consider how a focus on social exclusion may alter the policy questions that are most relevant by fostering debate in government! research! and academic circles.

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• Authors: John Le Grand Hills, HILLS JOHN GRAND JULIAN PIACHAU
• Assisted by: John Hills (Editor), John (London School of Economics) Hills (Editor), Julian Le Grand (Editor), Julian (London School of Economics) Le Grand (Editor), Le Grand Julian (Editor), David Piachaud (Editor), David (London School of Economics) Piachaud (Editor), Piachaud David (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2002
• EAN: 9780199251070
• ISBN: 978-0-19-925107-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Statistics, Poverty & unemployment, Social research & statistics, Social research and statistics, Poverty and precarity