Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.
Extensively updated, this second edition of the Advanced Introduction to Social Policy provides a concise overview of the field that takes newer realities into account as well as taking insights from the traditional social policy canon. Daniel Béland and Rianne Mahon draw on both classic and contemporary theories to illuminate the broad processes that are putting pressure on existing social policy arrangements and raising new research questions.
Key Features:
Presenting a lucid and up-to-date overview of comparative and global social policy, this thoroughly revised second edition will prove vital to researchers, university students, and university instructors of social policy, political science, sociology, public policy, and social work.
Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.
Extensively updated, this second edition of the Advanced Introduction to Social Policy provides a concise overview of the field that takes newer realities into account as well as taking insights from the traditional social policy canon. Daniel Béland and Rianne Mahon draw on both classic and contemporary theories to illuminate the broad processes that are putting pressure on existing social policy arrangements and raising new research questions.
Key Features:
Presenting a lucid and up-to-date overview of comparative and global social policy, this thoroughly revised second edition will prove vital to researchers, university students, and university instructors of social policy, political science, sociology, public policy, and social work.
Contents: Introduction 1. Capitalism, citizenship, and solidarity 2. Explaining social policy development: theoretical perspectives 3. Classifying countries: reconsidering welfare regimes 4. Taking ideas seriously in social policy 5. Social exclusion, new social risks, and social investment 6. Changing gender norms, welfare regime forms 7. Social policy and the politics of diversity 8. Globalization and social policy Conclusion References Index
Daniel Béland, James McGill Professor of Political Science and Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, McGill University and Rianne Mahon, Distinguished Research Professor, Carleton University, Canada
‘In this timely second edition, Daniel Béland and Rianne Mahon
bring new contexts and debates to their outstanding foundational
social policy text. These include global crises, wars, and global
social governance. It remains an admirably succinct and clear yet
comprehensive text, perfect for undergraduate and postgraduate
students of social policy and related subjects. The authors combine
classic social policy concepts with key contemporary theories and
issues. They show how political, social, and economic contexts
influence shifts in thinking and the movement of ideas. The book
importantly references the significance of social policies of
different global regions. It will continue to appeal to a wide
international audience.’
*Fiona Williams, University of Leeds, UK*
‘This book delivers a superb concise introduction to social policy.
With a wonderful flow and a truly global perspective, it draws from
the finest of the classics and contemporary research to address the
ideas and societal transformations that have deeply changed the
face of social policy. Millions of people on the move, the travel
of ideas, intense statecrat, critical feminist voices across the
globe, all make their way into the novel contribution Béland and
Mahon make to the teaching of social policy. In addition to
refining arguments and including new material regarding subjects
already present in the first edition, this new edition addresses
the consequences of authoritarian parties and movements on social
policy. It also elaborates on the role of war and crises like
pandemics and climate change in welfare state building. As such,
this improved second edition is even more of a must have on social
policy courses in Latin America and the global South than the first
one.’
*Juliana Martínez Franzoni, Universidad de Costa Rica*
‘Daniel Béland and Rianne Mahon provide advanced students with an
excellent overview of systems of social provision and regulation
worldwide, notable for its theoretical sophistication and
compelling empirical materials. The authors engage with the
practical and analytic challenges to welfare states, and their
analysts, posed by globalization and global governance, increased
migration, transformations in household forms and gender relations,
and shifting racial/ethnic dynamics. Moreover, the book is
well-grounded in the rich comparative traditions of welfare studies
while also attending to innovative theoretical trends.’
*Ann Shola Orloff, Northwestern University, US*
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