Capability-Promoting Policies: Enhancing Individual and Social Development
Hans-Uwe Otto, Melanie Walker, and Holger Ziegler
Abstract
Most current social welfare policies aim to ameliorate immediate problems or injustices, but they do little to foster human development or support the potential of people within marginalized communities. How can we more effectively use public policy to foster human development? How can we overcome the injustice of contemporary society and give people across the social and class spectrum equal opportunities to flourish? This book offers case studies and analyses of a number of different existing approaches to these questions, presenting newly conceptualised strategies for developing and impleme ... More
Most current social welfare policies aim to ameliorate immediate problems or injustices, but they do little to foster human development or support the potential of people within marginalized communities. How can we more effectively use public policy to foster human development? How can we overcome the injustice of contemporary society and give people across the social and class spectrum equal opportunities to flourish? This book offers case studies and analyses of a number of different existing approaches to these questions, presenting newly conceptualised strategies for developing and implementing effective policies for fostering human development at the local, national, and international levels. It examines the discrepancies and obstacles that actual policies present to what a capability approach can do in social policy practice. The goal is to stimulate debate on how to overcome barriers in a variety of existing social policy scenarios.
Keywords:
social welfare,
human development,
public policy,
injustices,
social policy,
capability approach
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2017 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781447334316 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: May 2018 |
DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447334316.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Hans-Uwe Otto, editor
Bielefeld University
Melanie Walker, editor
University of the Free State
Holger Ziegler, editor
Bielefeld University
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