Making Social Policy in Australia - An Introduction

List of contents

Tables and figures

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Introduction

PART I MAKING SOCIAL POLICY IN AUSTRALIA

1 Towards a framework for understanding and participating in social policy making

2 Why the historical and current context matters

3 Debates about social goals

4 Organisational maps and policy making

5 Working in organisations

6 Disputes about policy process: governments, citizens and markets

7 The policy process as power and contest

PART II CASE STUDIES

Introduction

8 Pathways to excellence: developing Aboriginal education policy ELEANOR BOURKE

9 How violence against women became an issue on the national policy agenda WENDY WEEKS AND KATE KILMORE

10 The Kurds - who are they? Established Kurdish identity in Victoria HURRIYET BABACAN

11 Low-start mortgages: implementation problems in a deregulated finance economy TONY DALTON

12 Policy and planning in community s

Summary

A comprehensive introduction to the principles and practice of social policy.

Product details

• Authors: Tony Dalton, Tony Draper Dalton, Mary Draper, Wendy Weeks, Wendy Wiseman Weeks, Weeks Wendy, John Wiseman, Wiseman John
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9780367718671
• ISBN: 978-0-367-71867-1
• No. of pages: 268
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; Australia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Physical, Social Work