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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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Partners for good : business, government and the third sector
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ISBN: 1409434370 9786613666727 1409434389 1280689781 1317083644 9781409434382 9781409434375 1317083652 9781317083658 9781317083641 9781280689789 6613666726 9781315599564 9781317083634 9781138271500 1315599562 Year: 2012 Publisher: Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Gower,

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The third sector has increased its business capacity through the experience gained from a decade of providing commissioned services to the public sector. Society today expects employers to do more to engage with both communities and good causes and the business case for doing so can be and is being made. But business also realises that charities do conscience better than they can and so co-working is increasingly being sought. In Partners for Good, Tom Levitt points the way to successful partnerships at local, national and international levels

The State or the market : politics and welfare in contemporary Britain : a reader
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ISBN: 0803986424 0803986416 080398104X 9780803986411 9780803986428 9780803981041 Year: 1991 Publisher: London: Sage,

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