Social Policy Review 29: Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2017
John Hudson, Catherine Needham, and Elke Heins
Abstract
This edition presents an up-to-date and diverse review of the best in social policy scholarship over the past 12 months, from a group of internationally renowned authors. The collection offers a comprehensive discussion of some of the most challenging issues facing social policy today, including an examination of Brexit, the Trump presidency, ‘post-truth’, the prison system, migration, the lived experiences of food bank users, health tourism as an alleged benefit fraud, and the future of welfare benefits. Published in association with the SPA, the volume will be valuable to academics and stude ... More
This edition presents an up-to-date and diverse review of the best in social policy scholarship over the past 12 months, from a group of internationally renowned authors. The collection offers a comprehensive discussion of some of the most challenging issues facing social policy today, including an examination of Brexit, the Trump presidency, ‘post-truth’, the prison system, migration, the lived experiences of food bank users, health tourism as an alleged benefit fraud, and the future of welfare benefits. Published in association with the SPA, the volume will be valuable to academics and students within social policy, social welfare and related disciplines.
Keywords:
social policy,
Brexit,
Trump presidency,
migration,
food banks,
welfare benefits,
social welfare
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2017 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781447336211 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: January 2018 |
DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447336211.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
John Hudson, editor
University of York
Catherine Needham, editor
University of Birmingham
Elke Heins, editor
University of Edinburgh
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