The Oxford handbook of governance and public management for social policy

• Titel: The Oxford handbook of governance and public management for social policy
• Mitwirkende: Baehler, Karen J. [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Karen J. Baehler
• Verlagsort: New York
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• E-Jahr: 2023
• Jahr: [2023]
• Umfang: xix, 1042 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Diagramme
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Oxford library of international social policy
• ISBN: 978-0-19-091632-9
• ISBN: 978-0-19-091635-0
• Schlagwörter: (s)Sozialpolitik / (s)Governance
• Dokumenttyp: Aufsatzsammlung
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: The Oxford handbook of governance and public management for social policy. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2023. - 1 online resource.
• K10plus-PPN: 1851565809

Abstract

"This handbook surveys knowledge from all six of the planet's continuously inhabited continents to understand how governments and related institutions have attempted to advance human development and improve social outcomes over the past several decades. The current state of knowledge about the social welfare sphere is robust, but explorers of its two conceptual hemispheres-social policy and social administration-have not always shared insights or traced connections across cultural, historical, geographic, and disciplinary boundaries. Each of the 64 chapters commissioned for the handbook does that work by applying an administrative lens to an issue of social policy. Authors were carefully chosen by editors based in Africa, Asia, Australasia, Canada and the United States, Europe, and Latin America to capture key developments and challenges in their region's social welfare spheres during the decades spanning the turn of the millennium. The result is an engaging description of the international state of knowledge at the intersection of social policy and public administration on the eve of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Adaptations forced by the pandemic and related crises may create momentum for social welfare system change, and even transformation, in some parts of the world. Future researchers will describe and measure such changes relative to benchmarks set in the pre-pandemic period, including the rich variety of practices, paradigms, and insights collected in The Oxford International Handbook of Governance and Management for Social Policy"--