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Christianity and the future of welfare
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ISBN: 0716204096 Year: 1985 Publisher: London Epworth

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Das Innere Kabinett: Die höhere Beamtenschaft und der Aufbau des Wohlfahrtsstaates in Grossbritannien 1893-1919
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ISBN: 3786814465 9783786814467 Year: 1996 Volume: 446 Publisher: Husum: Matthiesen,


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Anti-social policy : welfare, ideology, and the disciplinary state
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ISBN: 0745008100 0745004768 9780745008103 9780745004761 Year: 1990 Publisher: New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf,

Charity, self-interest and welfare in the English past
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ISBN: 1857285360 Year: 1996 Publisher: London UCL Press


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Criminalising social policy : anti-social behaviour and welfare in a de-civilised society
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ISBN: 9781843923268 9781843925408 9781134002870 9781134002948 9781134003013 9781843923275 1843923262 Year: 2008 Publisher: Cullompton: Willan,


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The politics and policy of wellbeing : understanding the rise and significance of a new agenda
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ISBN: 9781783479344 1783479345 9781783479320 9781783479337 1783479329 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cheltenham: Elgar,

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Government interest in wellbeing as an explicit goal of public policy has increased significantly in recent years. This has led to new developments in measuring wellbeing and initiatives aimed specifically at enhancing it, that reflect new thinking on ‘what matters’ and challenge established notions of societal progress. The Politics and Policy of Wellbeing provides the first theoretically grounded and empirically informed account of the rise and significance of wellbeing in contemporary politics and policy.Drawing on theories of agenda-setting and policy change, Ian Bache and Louise Reardon consider whether wellbeing can be described as ‘an idea whose time has come’. The book reflects on developments across the globe and provides a detailed comparative analysis of two political arenas: the UK and the EU. Offering the first reflection grounded in evidence of the potential for wellbeing to be paradigm changing, the authors identify the challenge of bringing wellbeing into policy as a ‘wicked problem’ that policymakers are only now beginning to grapple with.This pioneering account of wellbeing from a political science perspective is a unique and valuable contribution to the field. The authors’ theoretical and empirical conclusions are of great interest to scholars of politics and wellbeing alike.

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