Forthcoming Social Policy Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Globalizing Human Rights

   Emerging Issues and Approaches

   Edited by Charles Anthony Smith

   This collection presents a comprehensive engagement of issues of human rights in an increasingly globalized world. As the role of the rule of law has moved beyond the confines of the state and beyond the interactions of states, how and when law protects human rights has become a central issue of...

   To Be Published July 11th 2013 by Routledge
2. New Directions in the Sociology of Human Rights

   Edited by Patricia Hynes, Michele Lamb, Damien Short, Matthew Waites

   New Directions in the Sociology of Human Rights is a contribution to both sociology and to human rights research, particularly where these are directed towards challenging power relations and inequalities in contemporary societies. It expands and develops the sociology of human rights as a...

   To Be Published August 6th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Millennium Development Goals: Challenges, Prospects and Opportunities

   Edited by Nana Poku, Jim Whitman

   Series: ThirdWorlds

   As the 15-year Millennium Development Goals approach their conclusion, we can now measure their larger successes and failures in more than ‘snapshot’ fashion; and we can begin to consider how best to shape the international development agenda for the coming decades based on what we have learned....

   To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge
4. Morality Policies in Europe

   Concepts, Theories and Empirical Evidence

   Edited by Christoph Knill

   Series: Journal of European Public Policy Special Issues as Books

   The regulation of issues like abortion, euthanasia, gun control, same-sex unions, pornography, prostitution, drugs, or gambling is commonly referred to a special class of so called morality policies. The distinctive feature of these policies is that politics are shaped by conflicts over first...

   To Be Published October 14th 2013 by Routledge
5. Managing Social Change and Social Policy in Greater China

   Welfare Regimes in Transition

   Edited by Ka Ho Mok, Maggie K. W. Lau

   Series: Routledge Research On Public and Social Policy in Asia

   East Asia is at the heart of the global economic transformation, and the countries of the region are witnessing rapidly changing labour markets, alongside the pressure to cut production costs and lower taxes in order to become successful ‘competition states’. These changes have resulted in...

   To Be Published November 14th 2013 by Routledge
6. Reconstructing Social Justice for a More Social and Less Political World

   By Lauretta C. Frederking

   The rhetoric of social justice is commonplace but increasingly it means little more than a tag line or a punctuation point. Reconstructing Social Justice for a More Social and Less Political World presents a new framework for social justice that will change the way people think about social justice...

   To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge