Making social policy work : essays in honour of Howard Glennerster /

There is widespread commitment across public service agencies in the UK and elsewhere to ensuring that the best available evidence is used to improve public services. The challenge is not only making research evidence accessible and available but also getting it used. This book provides a timely and...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Glennerster, Howard, Hills, John, 1954-, Le Grand, Julian, Piachaud, David
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bristol, UK : Policy, 2007.
Series:CASE studies on poverty, place, and policy.
Subjects:
Glennerster, Howard.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Policy.
Social policy.
Great Britain > Social policy.
Great Britain > History.
Grande-Bretagne > Politique sociale.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Great Britain.
Festschriften.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Making social policy work; Contents; List of tables and figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. Principles, Poor Laws and welfare states; 3. Welfare: what for?; 4. Families, individuals and the state; 5. Schools, financing and educational standards; 6. Financing higher education: tax, graduate tax or loans?; 7. Quasi-markets in healthcare; 8. Social care: choice and control; 9. Neighbourhood renewal, mixed communities and social integration; 10. The restructuring of redistribution; 11. Pensions, public opinion and policy; 12. Distributing resources.

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