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The Social Policy of the Firm

Policy Sciences, 1982
The “welfare state” concept hides an important aspect of modern industrial societies. In capitalist countries welfare is provided through a mixture of public and private initiatives. The author suggests that the concept “welfare economy” more fully captures the economic interpenetration of public and private sectors.
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Paternalism and Social Policy

Journal of Social Policy, 1978
ABSTRACTThis paper discusses the notion of paternalism, and its application to the evaluation of social policies. It attempts first to define the concept, using Mill's distinction between self- and other-regarding actions. A paternalistic policy is one in which the government renders a self-regarding action less eligible for a citizen, with the ...
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Social Investment Policy

Published online: 26 February 2025 In recent years, in an up-and-coming manner, the notion of social investment has gained purchase in academic and policy circles as a novel welfare policy compass. Amid ageing societies, rising female employment, tightening labour markets and shifting cognitive orientations on the state’s role in the economy ...
HEMERIJCK, Anton, BOKHORST, David Jonas
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Social policy in China

2008
Community safety emerged as a new approach to tackling and preventing local crime and disorder in the late 1980s and was adopted into mainstream policy by New Labour. This book provides the first sustained critical and theoretically informed analysis of the community safety agenda by leading authorities in the field.
Chak Kwan Chan   +2 more
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The Social Policy Process

1979
The 1960s saw the British social policy debate transformed. The assumptions of the 1950s were swept aside, and poverty and inequality were reinstated as critical social issues. While the rediscovery of poverty did not come as a sudden blinding revelation, one dimension of hardship after another was thrust firmly into political consciousness, and the ...
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Scandal, Social Policy and Social Welfare

2005
By examining the landmark scandals of the post-war period, including more recent ones such as the Victoria Climbie Inquiry, this book reveals how scandals are generated, to what purposes they are used and whose interests they are made to serve.
Ian Butler, Mark Drakeford
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Policy Science and Social Policy

Journal of Education for Social Work, 1976
This paper briefly traces the evolution of the policy sciences. It views policy science as a technical policy development discipline. The impediments to successful integration of policy science content into social policy curriculum are analyzed and suggestions to improve utilization are made.
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Violence and social policy

2015
The most important thing to understand about violence and social policy from the perspective of critical criminology is that social policy matters: the level of violence a society suffers is fundamentally shaped by both past and present social policies.
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Social Policy and Social Movements: ‘Race’, Racism and Social Policies

1998
During the Conservative Party Conference in October 1997 Lord Tebbit chose to focus on a critique of what he saw as the dangers of multiculturalism for British society. Warning that multiculturalism was a ‘divisive force’ for society as a whole Tebbit warned that ‘Unless we share standards, moral values, language and our national heritage, we will ...
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