Social Policy Review 15: UK and international perspectives

Description

Social Policy Review 15 continues the tradition of providing a different style and approach to policy issues from that found in most academic journals and books. Welfare and Welfare Reform in the USA, Europe and the UK combines issues such as globalization, Europe and pensions with examination of the current and historical contexts of social policy. Chapters have been purposely chosen to review a varied and interesting selection of topical social policy developments and to set these in a broader context of key trends and debates. Published in association with the UK Social Policy Association.

I joined the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of York in September 2013. My current research interests focus around citizen participation and social media, theories of citizenship and the comparative politics of social policy - including the impact of globalization on welfare systems in economically developed countries. I have, for many years, been active in the UK Social Policy Association and am currently Chair of the SPA. Martin Powell is a Professor of Health and Social Policy at the University of Birmingham. Martin's main research interest is in the British welfare state, especially the NHS. He has written or edited some 19 books, including some being translated into Chinese, Korean, and Polish. He has written over 80 peer reviewed articles, and he is a former editor of the journal `Social Policy and Administration'.

"... an invaluable resource for both teaching and research. It not only keeps the social policy community up to date with a range of developments in UK social policy, but it also gives us a flavour of wider international, cross-national and conceptual debates." Ruth Lister, Department of Social Sciences, University of Loughborough "Social Policy Review keeps us reliably informed about the latest policy developments and literature in the UK and beyond. With the UK situated at the interface between North America and Europe, it provides an important common ground for discussing social policy internationally." Stephan Leibfried, Centre for Social Policy Research, Bremen University, Germany