As a concept, social exclusion has considerable potential to explain and respond to
disadvantage in later life. However, in the context of ageing populations, the construct …

Changing Welfare States is is a major new examination of the wave of social reform that has
swept across Europe over the past two decades. In a comparative fashion, it analyses reform …

A better ideational approach comes from showing when ideas influence outcomes, and
when they do not (Campbell 2004; Daigneault 2014; Hattam 1993; Lieberman 2002; …

The Public Policy Process is essential reading for anyone trying to understand the process
by which public policy is made. Explaining clearly the importance of the relationship …

The Public Policy Process is essential reading for anyone trying to understand the process
by which public policy is made. Explaining clearly the importance of the relationship …

This article looks at social inclusion from a sociological perspective. It argues that sociology
complements biological and other natural order explanations of social stratification. The …

Based on participant observation in a team of British policy-making civil servants carried out
in 2009, this article examines the use that is made of evidence in making policy. It shows that …

Social exclusion is one of the most pressing challenges in post-industrial societies,
encompassing economic, social, cultural and political dimensions. This important new book …

In this climate of the first coalition government of MMP, with its focus on the political
environment of policy making, any text on social policy would be hard pressed to hold the …

Social enterprise has been portrayed as challenging neoliberalism, and alternatively, as
neoliberalism by stealth. Here we conceptualise social enterprise as a microparadigm …