Politics, Inequality and the Australian Welfare State After Liberalisation

Politics, Inequality and the Australian Welfare State After Liberalisation
Author: Ben Spies-Butcher
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2023-10-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 183998841X

Neoliberalism has transformed work, welfare, and democracy. However, its impacts, and its future, are more complex than we often imagine. Alongside growing inequality, social spending has been rising. Medicare was entrenched alongside privatization. How do we understand this contradictory politics, and what opportunities are there to advance equality? This book takes the three big drivers of inequality – conditionality of benefits, marketisation of services and financialisation of the life course– to explore how inequality has been contested. Alongside the rise of the market, it reveals the building blocks of a more egalitarian order and opportunities for new models of solidarity based on an ethic of care.

Australia's Welfare Wars

Australia's Welfare Wars
Author: Philip Mendes
Publisher: UNSW Press
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2017
Genre: Australia
ISBN: 9781742234786

In this fully revised third edition of Australia's Welfare Wars, Philip Mendes questions many of the key values and assumptions that determine contemporary social welfare policies, and the factors and forces that shape these policies in Australia.

The Transformation of Welfare States?

The Transformation of Welfare States?
Author: Nick Ellison
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2006-04-07
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1134765703

'Globalization', institutions and welfare regimes -- The challenge of globalization -- Globalization and welfare regime change -- Towards workfare? : changing labour market policies -- Labour market policies in social democratic and continental regimes -- Population ageing, GEPs and changing pensions systems -- Pensions policies in continental and social regimes -- Conclusion : welfare regimes in a liberalizing world.

A Research Agenda for Critical Political Economy

A Research Agenda for Critical Political Economy
Author: Bill Dunn
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2020-09-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1789903076

Forward thinking and provocative, this Research Agenda demonstrates different approaches to the field from experts focusing on global and local, and historical and contemporary issues. Eminent global scholars examine a diverse selection of interdisciplinary themes, raising questions surrounding future research, offering examples and linking the theory to its implications for practice and policy.

Australian Social Policy and the Human Services

Australian Social Policy and the Human Services
Author: Ed Carson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 662
Release: 2020-08-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1108916449

Social policy encompasses the study of social needs, policy development and administrative arrangements aimed at improving citizen wellbeing and redressing disadvantage. Australian Social Policy and the Human Services introduces readers to the mechanisms of policy development, implementation and evaluation. This third edition emphasises the complexity of practice, examining the links and gaps between policy development and implementation and encouraging readers to develop a critical approach to practice. The text now includes an overview of Australia's political system and has been expanded significantly to cover contemporary issues across several policy domains, including changes in labour market structure, homelessness, mental health and disability, child protection and family violence, education policy, Indigenous initiatives, conceptualisations of citizenship, and the rights of diverse groups and populations. Written in an engaging and accessible style, Australian Social Policy and the Human Services is an indispensable resource for students and practitioners alike.

Money Power and Financial Capital in Emerging Markets

Money Power and Financial Capital in Emerging Markets
Author: Ilias Alami
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2019-12-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000769003

This book provides a comprehensive investigation of the messy and crisis-ridden relationship between the operations of capitalist finance, global capital flows, and state power in emerging markets. The politics, drivers of emergence, and diversity of these myriad forms of state power are explored in light of the positionality of emerging markets within the network of space and power relations that characterises contemporary global finance. The book develops a multi-disciplinary perspective and combines insights from Marxist political economy, post-Keynesian economics, economic geography, and postcolonial and feminist International Political Economy. Alami comprehensively reviews the theories, histories, and geographies of cross-border finance management, and develops a conceptual framework which allows unpacking the complex entanglement of constraint and opportunities, of growing integration and tight discipline, that cross-border finance represents for emerging markets. Extensive fieldwork research provides an in-depth comparative critical interrogation of the policies and regulations deployed in Brazil and South Africa. This volume will be especially useful to those researching and working in the areas of international political economy, contemporary geographies of money and finance, and critical development studies. It should also prove of interest to policy makers, practitioners, and activists concerned with the relation between finance and development in emerging markets and beyond.

From Poverty to Power

From Poverty to Power
Author: Duncan Green
Publisher: Oxfam
Total Pages: 540
Release: 2008
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0855985933

Offers a look at the causes and effects of poverty and inequality, as well as the possible solutions. This title features research, human stories, statistics, and compelling arguments. It discusses about the world we live in and how we can make it a better place.

Keywords in Australian Politics

Keywords in Australian Politics
Author: Rodney Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2006-06-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780521672832

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Social Justice in an Open World

Social Justice in an Open World
Author:
Publisher: United Nations Publications
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

The International Forum for Social Development was a 3 year project undertaken by the United Nations. Department of Economic and Social Affairs between 2001 and 2004 to promote international cooperation for social development and supporting developing countries and social groups not benefiting from the globalization process. This publication provides an overview and interpretation of the discussions and debates that occurred at the four meetings of the Forum for Social Development held at the United Nations headquarters in New York, within the framework of the implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development.

Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in Asia, Africa and Latin America

Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in Asia, Africa and Latin America
Author: Ian Gough
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 12
Release: 2004-02-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780521834193

Written by a team of internationally respected experts, this book explores the conditions under which social policy, defined as the public pursuit of secure welfare, operates in the poorer regions of the world. Social policy in advanced capitalist countries operates through state intervention to compensate for the inadequate welfare outcomes of the labour market. Such welfare regimes cannot easily be reproduced in poorer regions of the world where states suffer problems of governance and labour markets are imperfect and partial. Other welfare regimes therefore prevail involving non-state actors such as landlords, moneylenders and patrons. This book seeks to develop a conceptual framework for understanding different types of welfare regime in a range of countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa and makes an important contribution to the literature by breaking away from the traditional focus on Europe and North America.