Social Policy In Australia
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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.
Author | : John Wiseman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2020-09-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000319431 |
Social policy affects everyone and is everyone's business. Even if you do not receive welfare payments, directly or indirectly you benefit from government servides and funding. Yet how are policies and programs actually developed? Can social policy help us create a more just society? This book offers an introduction to the theory and practice of social policy making in Australia. Using detailed case studies, it covers: * the ideas and values which inform the social policy process * how different groups can influence policy making * how social policy making takes place in social and political organisations * the political nature of policy making Making Social Policy in Australia is the most up to date introduction to Australian social policy currently available, and is essential reading for students and practitioners in human and community service work and government. Tony Dalton, Mary Draper and John Wiseman lecture in Social Work and Social Sciences at Rmit, Melbourne; Wendy Weeks lectures in Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Melbourne and is author (in collaboration) of Women Working Together: Lessons from feminist women's services. Each of the authors has been involved in policy debate and development for many years.
Author | : Alison McClelland |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780195562866 |
Guides students in how to analyse the impacts of social policy, and how to develop and advocate for better social policy in the future. Paul Smyth, University of Melbourne, Australia.
Author | : Joannah Luetjens |
Publisher | : ANU Press |
Total Pages | : 551 |
Release | : 2019-04-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1760462799 |
In Australia and New Zealand, many public projects, programs and services perform well. But these cases are consistently underexposed and understudied. We cannot properly ‘see’—let alone recognise and explain—variations in government performance when media, political and academic discourses are saturated with accounts of their shortcomings and failures, but are next to silent on their achievements. Successful Public Policy: Lessons from Australia and New Zealand helps to turn that tide. It aims to reset the agenda for teaching, research and dialogue on public policy performance. This is done through a series of close-up, in-depth and carefully chosen case study accounts of the genesis and evolution of stand-out public policy achievements, across a range of sectors within Australia and New Zealand. Through these accounts, written by experts from both countries, we engage with the conceptual, methodological and theoretical challenges that have plagued extant research seeking to evaluate, explain and design successful public policy. Studies of public policy successes are rare—not just in Australia and New Zealand, but the world over. This book is embedded in a broader project exploring policy successes globally; its companion volume, Great Policy Successes (edited by Paul ‘t Hart and Mallory Compton), is published by Oxford University Press (2019).
Author | : Adam Jamrozik |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
The first book to examine social policy in the post-welfare state. It looks critically at the idea of the welfare state, analysing the changing concept of welfare and arguing that the welfare state no longer exists in Australia. The book is written in an accessible and student-friendly style.
Author | : Allan Borowski |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1997-11-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780521498203 |
Industrialised countries worldwide have for years been confronting the prospect of a steadily ageing population. This book, first published in 1997, reflects the breadth of research into gerontology and analyses the major themes and issues in the area of ageing and social policy in both an Australian context and from an international comparative perspective. Topics discussed include unemployment, education, and housing for the aged. Added to this is the contemporary influence of multiculturalism and the challenge it poses to policies and programs that must cater for a growing diversity in the ageing population. A special focus is given to the situation of women and Aboriginal Australians and the specific structural disadvantages they face. This book is essential reading for students and policy-makers in sociology, social and public policy, gerontology, and public health.
Author | : Adam Graycar |
Publisher | : South Melbourne : Macmillan Company of Australia |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Adam Jamrozik |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Australia |
ISBN | : 9781442501287 |
SOCIAL POLICY IN THE POST-WELFARE STATE 3rd edition presents an up-to-date, in-depth discussion of recent developments in social policy in Australia. The text continues the study of social policy from a coherently formulated theoretical perspective, building arguments and discussion points using the latest census data and Australian welfare statistics. It interprets policies and related events and invites readers' critical reception. This analysis of current social policy is essential reading for any social policy student in Australia and for professionals engaged in the administration of policy and service delivery. The structure of the content makes the book suitable as a text for a semester course on social policy.
Author | : Philip Mendes |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2018-10-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351801775 |
This book explores the tensions between the competing social rights and social control functions of the modern Australian welfare state. By critically examining the history and rhetoric of the Australian welfare state from 1972 to the present day, and using the author’s long-standing research on the Australian Council of Social Service and other welfare advocacy groups, it analyses the transformation from rights-based to conditional welfare. The Labor Party Government from 1972-75 is identified as the only clear cut example of Australia positively using welfare payments and services as an instrument to promote greater social equity, inclusion and participation. Since the mid-1970s, the Australian welfare state has gradually retreated from the social rights agenda conceived by the Whitlam Government. Australia has followed other Anglo-Saxon countries in adopting increasingly conditional and paternalistic measures that undermine the protection of social citizenship outside the labour market. In contrast, this text makes the case for an alternative participatory and decentralized welfare state model that would prioritize social care by empowering and supporting welfare service users at a local community level. This book will be of interest to academics, students and policy-makers working within social policy, social work and political sociology.
Author | : Professor Gabrielle Meagher |
Publisher | : Sydney University Press |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2015-04-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1743326300 |
The provision of social services in Australia has changed dramatically in recent decades, raising a range of important questions about financial and democratic accountability: 'who benefits', 'who suffers' and 'who decides'. This book explores these developments through rich case studies of a diverse set of social policy domains. The case studies demonstrate a range of effects of marketisation, including the impact on the experience of consumer engagement with social service systems, on the distribution of social advantage and disadvantage, and on the democratic steering of social policy.