Social Policy Review 27: Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2015

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SPR 27 brings together international scholarship to address a broad range of issues that emphasise both the breadth of social policy analysis, and the expanse of issues with which it is engaged. These include the effects of financialisation on services and care provision, policies to address deficiencies in housing and labour markets and ways in which the study of social policy may need to develop.

Zoe Irving is Senior Lecturer in Comparative, International and Global Social Policy at the University of York. Her current research interests include the welfare impact of the politics of austerity and the relationship between size and shape in welfare states. Menno Fenger is associate professor of Public Administration at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is currently is the project manager of INSPIRES, an EU-FP7 funded research programme and his research focuses on processes of long-term policy change. John Hudson is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy in the Department of Social Policy & Social Work at the University of York. His main interests are in the areas of comparative social policy, political economy of welfare and the policy making process.

"A one-stop shop for key contemporary social policy debates, along with a timely retrospective on the `three worlds of welfare capitalism'. Essential reading for all those interested in social policy." Karen Rowlingson, Birmingham University