This book presents a much needed guide to interpretative techniques and methods for policy research. The author begins by describing what interpretative approaches are and what they can mean to policy analysis. The author shifts the frame of reference from thinking about values as costs and benefits to thinking about them more as a set of ......
This text applies ideas of risk - as expressed by theorists such as Beck and Foucault - to changes in welfare. The author demonstrates how neo-liberals have used aspects of risk to attack welfare dependency and shows how rhetorics of risk have been used to reshape contemporary politics. He challenges the apparently common-sense dominance of ......
This book offers a powerful new approach to policy studies. Drawing on recent perspectives from social constructionism, discourse analysis, the sociology of social problems and feminism, Carol Bacchi develops a step-by-step analytical tool for deconstructing policy problems. Her `What's the Problem?' approach encourages students to reflect ......
This text applies ideas of risk - as expressed by theorists such as Beck and Foucault - to changes in welfare. The author demonstrates how neo-liberals have used aspects of risk to attack welfare dependency and shows how rhetorics of risk have been used to reshape contemporary politics. He challenges the apparently common-sense dominance of ......
Promoting Whole Person Health within Faith Communities
Providing an overview of the practice of par ish nursing, this book covers a variety of perspectives on f aith community nursing roles and practice. It discusses diff erent settings such as urban and rural, and examines practic e and educational issues. '
Like the First Edition, this book serves as a guide to the science and art of community health promotion. The last decade of research and development has considerably advanced the science of achieving and maintaining health. In this new edition,international contributors share their experiences and expertise about diverse health promotion and ......
This Reader presents a selection of articles from Economic Development Quarterly, the premier journal for practitioners and academics of local economic development. The pieces chosen cover both the breadth and the cutting edge of real world economic development practices.
Exploring the link between domestic violence and welfare reform, this book discusses how public assistan ce can be the financial support for escaping violence, batte rers restrict their partners'' job opportunities and child ab use''s link to welfare. '
Exploring the link between domestic violence and welfare reform, this book discusses how public assistan ce can be the financial support for escaping violence, batte rers restrict their partners'' job opportunities and child ab use''s link to welfare. '
