scholarly journals Review: The State in Global Perspective, Politics, Geography and Social Stratification, Studies in Social Policy and Welfare 21. Responses to Poverty: Lessons from Europe, Police and Public Order in Europe, Housing Policy and Equality: A Comparative Study of Tenure Conversions and Their Effects, on Human Geography, Housing, States and Localities, Cambridge Human Geography. Crime, Space and Society, Capitalism and Public Policy in the UK

1988 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
J A Agnew ◽  
A M Kirby ◽  
S Rosenberg ◽  
S J Smith ◽  
J van Weesep ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Housing Policy ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Human Geography ◽  
The State ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Public Order ◽  
The Uk

Housing Policy: Towards a Public Choice Perspective

1981 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 501-522 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Ricketts
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Housing Market ◽  
Housing Policy ◽  
Market Failure ◽  
The State ◽  
Housing Service ◽  
State Involvement ◽  
Public Choice Perspective ◽  
The Uk

Few commentators on the state of the housing market in the UK express satisfaction at the outcome of public policy in this field. From widely differing ideological presuppositions and with divergent views as to causes and cures, researchers nevertheless tend to agree that past policies have failed. This dissatisfaction arguably stems from the departure of housing policy from commonly held views about appropriate objectives. Housing policy is usually viewed as a response to some variety of ‘market failure’ or as a means of income redistribution. In the nineteenth century, externalities of a public health nature were important in encouraging the state to concern itself in the housing market, while the twentieth century has seen growing state involvement ostensibly as a response to so-called ‘distributional externalities’ or possibly on the grounds that housing service represents a ‘merit good’.

The Mediation of Bureaucratic-Professional Influence: Decentralization in Dutch Housing Policy

1986 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 607-619 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Flynn
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Housing Policy ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
The State ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Housing System ◽  
Bureaucratic Autonomy ◽  
Dutch Housing ◽  
Professional Power

The influence of state bureaucrats and professionals on public policy is empirically and theoretically problematic. Recent work concerning the ‘dual politics thesis' has suggested that bureaucratic autonomy will flourish particularly at the regional level of the state. Evidence about decentralization in the Dutch housing system is reviewed which generally supports this thesis. However, it is argued that regional bureaucratic and professional power in housing policy, and the specific institutional arrangements for decentralization, must also be explained in terms of the distinctive nature of Dutch pillarized society and politics.

scholarly journals Administrative traditions and citizen participation in public policy: a comparative study of France, Germany, the UK and Norway

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katy Huxley ◽  
Rhys Andrews ◽  
James Downe ◽  
Valeria Guarneros-Meza
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
The Uk

A Comparative Study on the Housing Policy for the Aged in Germany, the UK and Sweden

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 1175-1192
Author(s):  
Jung Hun Park ◽  
Keun Young Park ◽  
Kyung Soo Sim
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Housing Policy ◽  
The Uk

Introduction: Hiding in plain sight or Disappearing in the rear view mirror?: Whatever happened to the revolution in information for Health and Social Care – Learning from England and Australia

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 563-568
Author(s):  
Rob Wilson ◽  
Susan Baines ◽  
Ian McLoughlin
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Social Care ◽  
The State ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Rear View Mirror ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
The Uk

This themed section has at its heart reflections on the development of policy of, and for, information in health and social care over the last ten years in both the UK and Australia. It addresses a set of concerns often overlooked within social policy, namely the use of information and information systems as tools by organisations, policy makers and practitioners in the modernisation or transformation of public services, including in this case health and social care. Not long ago, in both countries, information was perceived as a panacea for the problems of integrating care services between health and social care organisations and these organisations and the patient, client or user of services. The authors focus upon England and Australia and contrast them briefly with other countries in Europe where the state plays a range of roles in the provision of health and social care.

Social Policy and Information Communication Technologies

2010 ◽  
pp. 215-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Henman
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Information Communication Technology ◽  
National Income ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The State ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Income Security

This chapter examines the contribution of information communication technology (ICT) to the operation of social and public policy. The governmentality analytic is introduced as a way in which to highlight how ICT is used by the state in governing populations. The chapter identifies four ways ICTs relate to social and public policy. First, social policy can be a response to ICT innovation and use. Second, ICT is used to implement and administer social policy. Third, ICT is used to develop and evaluate social policy. Fourth, the use of ICT can shape the very nature and substance of social policy. The chapter illustrates these theoretical and conceptual approaches by examining the extensive and innovative use of ICT in Australia’s national income security agency, Centrelink.

Governance and Social Policy

2003 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARY DALY
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
The Public ◽  
Negative Side ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Different Levels

Governance is now quite widely used as a frame of analysis, although not in social policy. This article elaborates some of the different roots and usages of governance and interrogates the utility of the concept for the discipline and study of social policy. Having traced the concept's diverse origins and contemporary usages, the article goes on to develop from them a framework for the analysis of developments in public policy in the UK under New Labour. This is then applied to consider in turn the nature of the public sphere, policy-making, policy implementation and societal incorporation. This leads to a discussion of the various strengths and weaknesses of governance. The former include its direct interest in policy-making, its focus on power and the state and the fact that it can connect different levels of action and analysis. On the negative side, though, one must question to what extent a governance perspective finds social policy interesting in its own right and whether its over-riding focus on state and government leads it to residualise both social policy and society.

From the “Judicialization of Politics” to the “Politicization of Justice” in the UK and Switzerland

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 118-135
Author(s):  
Lucia Della Torre
Keyword(s):  
General Rule ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Specific Field ◽  
Widespread Phenomenon ◽  
Judicialization Of Politics ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Migration Law

Not very long ago, scholars saw it fit to name a new and quite widespread phenomenon they had observed developing over the years as the “judicialization” of politics, meaning by it the expanding control of the judiciary at the expenses of the other powers of the State. Things seem yet to have begun to change, especially in Migration Law. Generally quite a marginal branch of the State's corpus iuris, this latter has already lent itself to different forms of experimentations which then, spilling over into other legislative disciplines, end up by becoming the new general rule. The new interaction between the judiciary and the executive in this specific field as it is unfolding in such countries as the UK and Switzerland may prove to be yet another example of these dynamics.

Doing Bodhisattva’s Work

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 4-32
Author(s):  
Le Hoang Anh Thu
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
The State ◽  
Ho Chi Minh City ◽  
Class Identity ◽  
The Social

This paper explores the charitable work of Buddhist women who work as petty traders in Hồ Chí Minh City. By focusing on the social interaction between givers and recipients, it examines the traders’ class identity, their perception of social stratification, and their relationship with the state. Charitable work reveals the petty traders’ negotiations with the state and with other social groups to define their moral and social status in Vietnam’s society. These negotiations contribute to their self-identification as a moral social class and to their perception of trade as ethical labor.

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