Talking Policy - How Social Policy Is Made

List of contents

Introduction

PART A: Thinking about social policy

1: Theorising social policy

2: The Australian welfare state: Compared and contrasted

3: History Matters

4: Australian liberalism: Ideas at work in Australian social policy

5: Inequality and the Australian welfare state

6: Poverty, ethics and social policy

PART B: Making policy

7: State organisations and social policy making

Case study: Mandatory sentencing, the nation-state and international law 1991-2004

8: Putting the social into policy: policy making communities

Case study: Talking about drugs: Chroming, the press and policy making

9: Talking of metaphors and policy making

Case study: Policy change and metaphor - the case of university fees

Conclusion: On truth, the state and social policy

Summary

An introduction to the process of social policy making in Australia. The authors emphasise the intensely human and political nature of the development of social services and programs, illustrating their arguments with detailed case studies.

Product details

• Authors: Judith Bessant, Judith Watts Bessant, Bessant Judith, Tony Dalton, Dalton Tony, Paul Smyth, Rob Watts, Watts Rob
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9780367719531
• ISBN: 978-0-367-71953-1
• No. of pages: 432
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, Australia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Social Science / Sociology