Social Policy for the Twenty-First Century: New Perspectives, Big IssuesISBN: 978-0-7456-3607-8
Hardcover
304 pages
July 2006, Polity
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Times Higher Education Supplement
“A tour de force, presenting a powerful critical
analysis of the most significant and politically important issues
in social policy today. This book deserves to be read by a far
wider audience than social policy academics and
students.”
Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law
“Provides rich materials, mostly based on aggregated
comparative data or impressive case studies, that attain a truly
global reach [and] with a comprehensive and far-reaching view on
relevant issues and current trends and puts forward important
analytical challenges opening the field to social policy theory and
empirical research to be developed in the years to
come.”
International Journal of Urban and Regional
Research
“Bill Jordan's magpie approach to scholarship once again
enables him to pick up for scrutiny all the big issues of the day;
the impact of the global economy and global policies upon welfare
systems, the conversion of welfare users from citizens into
consumers, the stalling of well-being and the problems of
sustainability. His creative imagination links all of these issues
and leads him to ask whether cosmopolitanism and a grand global
social contract such as implied by a global basic income would be
the way to reconcile individual autonomy, collective belonging and
sustainability.”
Bob Deaconm, University of Sheffield
“Social Policy for the Twenty-First Century provides a
thoughtful and comprehensive analysis of soical policies and their
roles in the transformations in human development, economic
development, social relations, politics, redistribution, and social
justice in the current intensely globalized era. The volume is most
impressive in its truly global reach, and in the fascinating cases
that serve as examples of the complex issues of wellbeing and
policy.”
Joya Misra, University of Massachusetts
“Claims to have captured what is at stake for the social
policies of the new century are often hyperbole. Not here. Bill
Jordan's readers are sometimes invited to contemplate a vast
landscape; sometimes required to dive down and explore the local
setails. The ride is always exhilarating. By challenging the
'common sense' of the existing welfare consensus Jordan underlines
the point of academic and political inquiry: to help create the
common sense of the future.”
Tony Fitzpatrick, University of Nottingham