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Don’t miss these latest titles in Social Policy & Welfare from Policy Press, all of which will be displayed at the Policy Press stand at ESPAnet 2017 this week.
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JPSJ at ESPAnet 2017
We will be celebrating 25 years of the
Journal of Poverty and Social Justice
at ESPAnet this week with lots of copies to give away. We’ve also made the latest Special Issue on ‘Disability and Conditional Social
Security Benefits’, Guest Edited by Ben Baumberg Geiger, FREE to access
here until 22nd September.
Read more about the Special Issue on the Policy Press blog
here.
OUT TODAY
The political economy of the Irish welfare state: Church, State
and Capital
Fred Powell
Hardback £80.00 ISBN:
ESPAnet conference price: £20.00 / Euro: 24.00
"Professor Powell’s landmark book should be required reading for students of modern Irish history, Irish society and Irish institutions."
Professor Bryan Fanning, University College Dublin
Provides a fascinating interpretation of the evolution of social policy in modern Ireland, as the product of a triangulated relationship between church, state and capital. Using official estimates,
Professor Powell demonstrates that the welfare state is vital for the cohesion of Irish society with half the population at risk of poverty without it.
Also from Policy Press
The human atlas of Europe: A continent united in diversity
Dimitris Ballas, Danny Dorling and Benjamin Hennig
Paperback £20.00 ISBN: 978-1-4473-1354-0
ESPAnet conference price: £15.00 / Euro: 18.00
Written by leading international authors, this timely atlas explores Europe’s society, culture, economy, politics and environment using state of the art mapping techniques. It addresses fundamental
questions around social cohesion and sustainable growth as Europe negotiates the UK’s exit while continuing through the economic crisis.
Austerity, community action and the future of
citizenship in Europe
Shana Cohen, Christina Fuhr and Jan-Jonathan Bock
Hardback £75.00 ISBN: 978-1-4473-3103-2
Conference price: £20.00 / Euro 24.00
Explores secular and faith-based grassroots social action in Germany and the UK that has evolved in response to the shrinking of the welfare state. The book provides new ways of thinking about social
and political belonging and about the relations between individual, collective and State responsibility.
For whose benefit? The everyday realities of welfare reform
Ruth Patrick
Paperback £24.99 ISBN: 978-1-4473-3348-7
ESPAnet conference price: £15.00 / Euro: 18.00
Explores how those at the sharp end of welfare reform experience changes to the benefit system. It looks at how the rights and responsibilities of citizenship are experienced on the ground, and whether
the welfare state still offers meaningful protection and security to those who rely upon it.
Hungry Britain: The rise of food charity
Hannah Lambie-Mumford
Paperback £24.99 ISBN: 978-1-4473-2829-2
ESPAnet conference price: £15.00 / Euro: 18.00
Drawing on empirical research with the UK’s two largest Food Banks, this book explores the prolific rise of food charity over the last 15 years and its implications for overcoming food insecurity.
Irish Social Policy: A critical introduction
(2nd edition)
By Fiona Dukelow and Mairéad Considine
Paperback £29.99 ISBN: 978-1-4473-2962-6
ESPAnet conference price: £15.00 / Euro: 18.00
Offers a comprehensive introduction to social policy in Ireland addressing a range of social policy topics of growing importance in contemporary Irish society including issues related to children,
service users and groups, migration, ethnicity, sexuality and climate change.
Social policy in an era of competition: From global to local perspectives
Edited by Dan Horsfall and John Hudson
Hardback £75.00 ISBN: 978-1-4473-2627-4
ESPAnet conference price: £20.00 / Euro: 24.00
Providing a new cross-national and international narrative on how global competition has reshaped welfare states, this book captures the complexity of social policy reform process that have taken
place over the past 25 years.
Paying for welfare in the 21st Century: Tax and spending
in post-industrial societies
By David Byrne and Sally Ruane
Paperback £12.99 ISBN: 978-1-4473-3653-2
ESPAnet conference price: £10.00 / Euro 12.00
Amid urgent debates around the function of welfare in the post-industrial 21st Century, and how we pay for it, David Byrne and Sally Ruane deploy the concepts and analytical tools of Marxist political
economy to better understand recent developments, and the possibilities they present for social change.
Obama’s welfare legacy: An assessment of US anti-poverty policies
By Anne Daguerre
Hardback £45.00 ISBN: 978-1-4473-3833-8
ESPAnet conference price: £20.00 / Euro: 24.00
Using new research, Anne Daguerre examines Obama’s legacy on welfare and antipoverty policies, focusing in particular on the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and the Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program (SNAP).
Journals from Policy Press
The Journal of Poverty and Social Justice celebrates its 25th Anniversary this year (see more above). To celebrate, Editors Rod Hick and Gill
Main reflect on the achievements of the journal and release a selection of articles FREE to download for the remainder of 2017. Read more on the Policy Press
blog.
Policy & Politics
has achieved an impressive result in this year's Journal Citation Reports with an Impact Factor of 1.939.
Free to access throughout September: ‘Improving policy implementation through collaborative policymaking’ Christopher Ansell, Eva Sørensen and Jacob
Torfing (Vol. 45, No. 3). The authors discuss the article in this just-published article on the
Policy & Politics blog.
Free trials of all our journals are available for academic institutions. Encourage your library to find out more
here.
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