Policy Travelogue - Tracing Welfare Reform in Aotearoa/new Zealand and Canada

It is the first full-length ethnographic study of policy movement that combines both horizontal (across states) and vertical (within states) movement.


It complements the focus on key players (e.g., the United States) by focusing on players not considered central (e.g., Aotearoa/New Zealand, Canada).


It explores both divergence and convergence, rather than focusing on one or the other.

Sommario

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Tracing Policy: Translation and Assemblage

Chapter 1. The New Zealand Model at Home and Abroad

Chapter 2. Producing Policy in Welfare Offices

Chapter 3. "Reading Through" Welfare Policy in Community Service Agencies

Chapter 4. Working with Policy in "Real Life": Welfare Mothers' Engagements

Conclusions:  Tracing Policy: Process/Power

Appendix I: Key Moments in State Provisioning for Poor Mothers in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Appendix II: Key Moments in State Provisioning for Poor Mothers in Canada and Alberta

References

Info autore

Catherine Kingfisher is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Lethbridge. She is editor of Western Welfare in Decline: Globalization and Women’s Poverty (2002) and author of Women in the American Welfare Trap (1996). Her research focuses on policy, governance, personhood, gender, and, most recently, happiness and well-being.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Catherine Kingfisher, Catherine Paelissier Kingfisher, Catherine Polissier Kingfisher, Kingfisher Catherine
• Editore: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.09.2013
• EAN: 9781782380054
• ISBN: 978-1-78238-005-4
• Pagine: 230
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali; Alberta, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, New Zealand, Welfare & benefit systems, Welfare and benefit systems, New Zealand / Aotearoa, Anthropology (General); Sociology