Critical social policy and the capability approach /

The (European) welfare state, as well as the political space of "the social," is currently being reorganized in a fundamental way. This has major implications for any attempt to contribute to a more just or even emancipatory way of shaping "the social." This book discusses what t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Otto, Hans-Uwe (Editor ), Ziegler, Holger (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leverkusen [Germany] : Barbara Budrich Publishers, 2014.
Temas:
Social policy.
Politique sociale.
public policy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Services.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Social Work.
Capabilities Approach
Social Policy
social services
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Hans-Uwe Otto and Holger Ziegler
  • Part 1: Democracy and the Social
  • Theoretical Foundations
  • The Capability Approach and deliberative democracy / Robert Salais
  • Rationality and freedom? Sen's CA and critical policy evaluation / Reńé Lehweß-Litzmann
  • Capability and Freedom: Sen Re-examined / Benedikt Reusch
  • Participation without Welfare? The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, feminism and the Capabilities Approach / Zoë Clark
  • Capabilities and the Empirical Foundations of Critical Pragmatism / Bénédicte Zimmermann
  • Part 2: Theorising Social Policy
  • A Capabilities Perspective
  • The Capability Perspective: Basic Features and their Relevance for Social Policy / Nicolai Suppa
  • Autonomy versus constraints to market economy: What does social policy supply? / Albert Scherr
  • External Capabilities and the Limits to Social Policy / William A. Jackson
  • Empowerment and the Capabilities Approach in Public Health
  • Some Remarks from the perspective of a scientific evaluation research / Elias Sahrai and Uwe H. Bittlingmayer
  • On the relationship between the analysis of the welfare state and normative categories / Norbert Wohlfahrt
  • Contributive Justice, Class Divisions and the Capabilities Approach / Andrew Sayer
  • Part 3: Assessing Social Policy
  • What the Capabilities Approach may provide
  • What is the value added of the Capability Approach for evaluating social and labour market policy? / Alexander Goerne
  • Capabilities as an assessment tool for social policies
  • The example of the effects of non-formal training measures in Spain / Joan Miquel Verd and Marti López-Andreu
  • Towards a more critical appraisal of social policies
  • The contribution of the capability approach.

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