Talking policy : how social policy is made /: how social policy is made. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Rob Watts, Judith Bessant, Paul Smyth, Tony Dalton.
• Authors: Watts, Rob; Bessant, Judith; Smyth, Paul; Dalton, Tony
• 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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 361.610994; Australia -- Social policy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000247572
• Related ISBNs: 9781000251425; 9781000255171; 9781003117636
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