Social Policy and the Commonwealth : Prospects for Social Inclusion

C. Finer

ISBN 10: 1403921660 / ISBN 13: 9781403921666

Edité par Palgrave Macmillan UK Sep 2004, 2004

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Neuware - This book offers unprecedented insights into both the workings of the Commonwealth and into the contrasting experiences of member states within it, with regard to social exclusion. Chapters on British social policy tradition and on concepts of social inclusion/exclusion, preface a series of case studies illustrative of different member states' experiences to date.The book concludes by re-examining the Commonwealth per se , with reference to its own problems of development and, nevertheless, its social policy development potential for the future.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Social Policy and the Commonwealth : Prospects for Social Inclusion
• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan UK Sep 2004
• Date de parution: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1403921660
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781403921666
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 223 L x 145 H x 20 P (en millimètres) 223 millimètres de largeur par 145 millimètres de hauteur par 20 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 454 grammes

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Synopsis

This book offers unprecedented insights into both the workings of the Commonwealth and into the contrasting experiences of member states within it, with regard to social exclusion. Chapters on British social policy tradition and on concepts of social inclusion/exclusion, preface a series of case studies illustrative of different member states' experiences to date.
The book concludes by re-examining the Commonwealth per se, with reference to its own problems of development and, nevertheless, its social policy development potential for the future.

À propos de l'auteur

PATRICIA HARRIS is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, and Director of the Centre for Social and Community Research at Murdoch University, Australia BARBARA HARRISS-WHITE is Professor of Development Studies and Deputy Directory of Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University, UK LAKSIRI JAYASURIYA is Emeritus Professor and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the School of Social and Cultural Studies, University of Western Australia, Australia JAMES LEE is Associate Professor at the City University of Hong Kong, China W.DAVID MCINTYRE is Emeritus Professor at the Macmillan Brown Centre of Pacific Studies at the University of Christchurch, New Zealand JAMES MIDGLEY is Harry and Riva Specht Professor of Public Social Services and Dean of the School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, USA JOY MONCRIEFFE completed her PhD on Jamaican health policy administration at the University of Cambridge LEILA PATEL is Professor of Social Development Studies and Chairperson of the Department of Social Work at the Rand Afrikaans University in Johannesburg, South Africa MORENA J. RANKOPO is a Social Work Lecturer at the University of Botswana, Botswana ERN-SER TAN is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore, Asia MALCOLM J. STEWART is in the Department of Social Work, University of Toronto, Canada SUSAN ST JOHN is Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Auckland, New Zealand, and a Social Policy Advisor and Consultant SOUCHOU YAO teaches Anthropology in the University of Sydney, Australia.