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New titles in social policy from Policy Press

All titles are available at 20% discount at www.policypress.co.uk

Edited by Andrew Ryder, Sarah Cemlyn and Thomas Acton

Paperback £24.99 US$42.95 ISBN: 9781447313571

Hardback £70.00 US$110.00 ISBN: 9781447313564

"This important book provides understanding of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities, based upon insider activists' insights as well as academics'. A must for those concerned with community development and equalities." Majorie Mayo, Emeritus professor, Goldsmiths, University of London

This book charts Gypsies Romany and Travellers community activism, and the community and voluntary organisations which support them. It describes the communities' struggle for rights against a backdrop of intersectional discrimination across Europe.

Edited by John Gal and Edit Weiss-Gal

Paperback £24.99 US$42.95 ISBN: 9781847429742

Hardback £65.00 US$89.95 ISBN: 9781847429735

"Gal and Weiss-Gal should be commended for editing the first book of its kind, one that provides social work scholars with a cross-national examination of social work policy practice." International Journal of Social Welfare

The first book to undertake a cross-national study of social worker engagement in social policy formulation processes, shedding light on policy practice in social work discourse, education and practice in eight liberal democracies.

By Charles Husband, Yunis Alam, Jorg Huettermann and Joanna Fomina 

Hardback £70.00 US$110.00 ISBN 9781447315643

"Lived diversities is a suggestive, richly textured study of everyday urban multiculture. Its engagement with issues of conflict, conviviality and banal civility will reward and challenge researchers and practitioners working through the implications of diversity for contemporary conceptions of citizenship." Therese O’Toole, University of Bristol 

Focusing on multi-ethnic interaction in an inner city area, this book addresses difficult issues that are often simplistically and negatively portrayed, challenging the stereotypical denigration of inner city life, and Muslim communities in particular.

By John Michael Roberts,

Paperback £24.99 US$42.95 ISBN 9781447308218

“This is an extremely good book, which contains a range of fascinating arguments and ideas about new media public spheres”. Professor Jonathan Joseph, Department of Politics, University of Sheffield 

In this highly topical book, John Michael Roberts employs a political economy perspective to explore the relationship between financial neoliberal capitalism and digital publics. He offers an indispensable guide to understanding the relationship between the state, new media activism and neoliberal practices.

By Louise Humpage

Hardback £75.00 US$115.00 ISBN: 9781847429650

Out in November 2014

"Provides an important contribution to knowledge and debate in social policy as well as a helpful review of the labyrinthine literature on social attitudes." Professor Hartley Dean, London School of Economics

This unique book traces public views on social citizenship across three decades through attitudinal data from New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Australia. It will be valuable for academics and students in sociology, social policy, and political science.

By John Hills

Paperback £12.99 US$ 25.00 ISBN: 9781447320036

Out in November 2014

"This hugely important book shows how populist understandings of the welfare state are wrong. Its message needs to reach the voting public before it is too late." David Blanchflower, Dartmouth College (New Hampshire) and University of Stirling, and formerly of the Monetary Policy Committee, Bank of England

This ground-breaking book uses extensive research and survey evidence to challenge the myth that the population divides into those who benefit from the welfare state and those who pay into it. It shows that all of us rely on the welfare state throughout our lifetimes, not just a small ‘welfare-dependent’ minority.