Overview
- Addresses the consequences of austerity policies for a full range of services and those with service needs
- Provides an overview with detailed case studies of austerity policies in the UK from 2010 onwards
- Analyses links between theoretical debate and specific policy analysis
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Table of contents(11 chapters)
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Austerity: A Break with the Past?
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Some Consequences of Twenty-First Century Austerity
About this book
Austerity Policies evaluates a wide range of changing form of state services and the transformations involving both the recipients and those delivering the services. It considers the past, presentand future of austerity as a policy, and the problems affecting particular groups such as offenders, looked after children, and professionals such as social care workers and those engaged with domestic violence. The collection will be of interest to students and scholars of social policy, criminology, sociology, politics and media studies.
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Editors and Affiliations
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School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Education and Society, Reg Vardy Centre, Sunderland, United Kingdom
Peter Rushton
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Department of Sociology, University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom
Catherine Donovan
About the editors
Catherine Donovan is a Professor in Social Relations and is Research Lead in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Sunderland.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Austerity Policies
Book Subtitle: Bad Ideas in Practice
Editors: Peter Rushton, Catherine Donovan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-79120-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79119-7Published: 26 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07731-0Published: 10 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-79120-3Published: 12 June 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 280
Topics: Politics of the Welfare State, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Social Care, Political Sociology, Social Structure, Social Inequality