Global Social Policy & Governance

By Bob Deacon

Book Overview

This] is essential reading for advanced students as well as all others seriously interested in improving the human condition. Nuanced and critical, Deacon's book offers a much needed and constructive guide to the complex supernational debates over rights, regulation and redistribution impinging on social welfare all over the world' - Jomo K.S., United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Economic DevelopmentHow do global actors contribute to national and international social policy? How have the terms of global social policy discourse shifted in recent years? Global Social Policy and Governance explores these issues and presents a critical analysis of policy-making in an interconnected world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412907624
• ISBN13: 9781412907620
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.8" x 9.5"