Forthcoming Social Policy Books

Forthcoming Books

1. The Capability Approach

   Development Practice and Public Policy in the Asia-Pacific Region

   Edited by Francesca Panzironi, Katharine Gelber

   Series: Routledge Advances in Social Economics

   This book provides a unique laboratory of ‘capabilities in practice’ in the Asia-Pacific region. It explores the application of the capability approach in development practice and public policy from a multidisciplinary perspective by bringing together scholars and practitioners from a wide range of...

   To Be Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
2. Refugee Women

   Beyond Gender versus Culture

   By Leah Bassel

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Debates over the headscarf and niqab, so-called ‘sharia-tribunals’, Female Genital Operations and forced marriages have raged in Europe and North America in recent years, raising the question – does accommodating Islam violate women’s rights? The book takes issue with the terms of this debate. It...

   To Be Published June 3rd 2012 by Routledge
3. The Political Economy of the European Social Model

   By Philip Whyman, Mark Baimbridge, Andrew Mullen

   Series: Routledge Studies in the European Economy

   This book seeks to analyse the development of the European Union (EU), which was founded upon the principle of the free movement of capital, goods, services and people in 1957. Its central thesis is that, from a practical and theoretical point of view, such a basis is fundamentally at odds with the...

   To Be Published June 4th 2012 by Routledge
4. Education and the Culture of Consumption

   Personalisation and the Social Order

   By David Hartley

   For nearly 200 years the organisational form of the school has changed little. Bureaucracy has been its enduring form. The school has prepared the worker for the factory of mass production. It has created the 'mass consumer' to be content with accepting what is on offer, not what is wanted. However...

   To Be Published June 11th 2012 by Routledge
5. Routledge International Handbook of Internet Gambling

   Edited by Robert Williams, Robert Wood, Jonathan Parke

   Internet gambling is a rapidly growing phenomenon, which has profound social, psychological, economic, political, and policy implications. Until recently, Internet gambling has been understudied by the research community, but now a growing body of literature is emerging, on all aspects of Internet...

   To Be Published June 13th 2012 by Routledge
6. Toward Sustainable Transitions in Healthcare Systems

   Edited by Jacqueline Broerse, John Grin

   Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainability Transitions

   Over the past decades, a series of reform initiatives have been going through health systems of advanced welfare states, including the control of cost development, the tenability of health systems in globalizing economies, dissatisfaction about quality of treatment or quality of life, and the...

   To Be Published June 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. Work and Family Policy

   International Comparative Perspectives

   Edited by Stephen Sweet

   Numerous challenges exist in respect to integrating work and family institutions and there is remarkable cross-national variation in the ways that societies respond to these concerns with policy. This volume examines these concerns by focusing on cross-national variation in structural/cultural...

   To Be Published June 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. The Economics of Social Responsibility

   The World of Social Enterprises

   Edited by Carlo Borzaga, Leonardo Becchetti

   Series: Routledge Advances in Social Economics

   This book offers a rethinking of the burgeoning research on not-for-profit organizations and socially responsible economics. Adopting a comparative approach, the chapters explore and reinterpret the impact of social enterprises on the provision of general-interest services, work integration,...

   To Be Published June 14th 2012 by Routledge
9. Sex Offenders: Punish, Help, Change or Control?

   Theory, Policy and Practice Explored

   Edited by Jo Brayford, Francis Cowe, John Deering

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice

   Sex offending, and in particular child sex offending, is a complex area for policy makers, theorists and practitioners. A focus on punishment has reinforced sex offending as a problem that is essentially ‘other’ to society and discourages engagement with the real scale and scope of sexual offending...

   To Be Published June 19th 2012 by Routledge
10. Migration, Family and the Welfare State

    Integrating Migrants and Refugees in Scandinavia

    Edited by Karen Fog Olwig, Birgitte Romme Larsen, Mikkel Rytter

    Migration, Family and the Welfare State explores understandings and practices of integration in the Scandinavian welfare societies of Denmark, Norway and Sweden through a comprehensive range of detailed ethnographic studies. Chapters examine discourses, policies and programs of integration in the...

    To Be Published June 19th 2012 by Routledge