Book Description
This completely updated edition of 'Contemporary Irish Social Policy' gives an overview of the historical development of each policy area and discusses current and future issues in the field.
Author : Suzanne Quin
Publisher :
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 22,14 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
This completely updated edition of 'Contemporary Irish Social Policy' gives an overview of the historical development of each policy area and discusses current and future issues in the field.
Author : Fiona Dukelow
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 25,63 MB
Release : 2017-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1447329635
This 2nd edition of a highly respected textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to Irish social policy. It provides an accessible, critical overview taking account of significant changes over recent years. The book is organised across four key sections: 1: Traces the emergence and development of Irish social policy from its origins to the present 2: Situates the Irish case in the wider context of the politics, ideology and socio-economic factors relevant to the development and reform of welfare states 3: Analyses core social service areas with specific reference to the contemporary Irish context 4: Explores how social policy affects particular groups in Irish society including children, older people, people with disabilities, carers, new immigrant and minority ethnic groups, and LGBT people. Discusses the challenges posed by environmental issues and the importance of a social policy perspective Text boxes used throughout provide policy summaries, definitions of key concepts, along with guides for further reading and discussion. This is a valuable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying Irish social policy and allied subjects.
Author : Suzanne Quin
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 25,40 MB
Release : 2018
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9781910820360
Author : Brendan Bartley
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 11,9 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN :
This book provides a detailed, student-friendly overview of Ireland in the twenty first century and the remarkable economic and social transformations that have occurred since the late 1980s. The "Celtic Tiger" phenomenon has made Ireland the focus of much attention in recent years. Other countries have openly declared that they want to follow the Irish economic and social model. Yet there is no book that gives a comprehensive, spatially-informed analysis of the Irish experience.This book fills that gap. Divided into four parts -- planning and development, the economy, the political landscape, and population and social issues -- the chapters provide an explanation of a particular aspect of Ireland and Irish life accompanied by illustrative material. In particular, the authors reveal how the transformations that have occurred are uneven and unequal in their effects across the country and highlight the challenges now facing Irish society and policy-makers.Written by experts in the field, it is a key text for those wishing to understand the contemporary Irish economic and social landscape.
Author : Bryan Fanning
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,47 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Ireland
ISBN : 9781904558828
The book's focus is on the implications for Irish social policy of social change including the need to respond to changes resulting from immigration and shifts within the Irish welfare economy that have created new needs for social care. Many of the chapters locate Irish debates about care in a broader social policy context. This is a companion volume to "Contemporary Irish Social Policy and Theorising Irish Social Policy".
Author : Richard Breen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 34,13 MB
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1349204641
Thirty years ago the Irish State embarked on a programme of development which rapidly transformed the economy and with it Irish society. This book is about that transformation and its effects. In particular, it focuses on the relationship between the policies pursued by the State and the class structure of Ireland. It argues that, despite promises of general prosperity, the benefits of Ireland's economic development have been very unevenly distributed, leading to a growing polarisation between social classes.
Author : Joe Moran
Publisher :
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 26,2 MB
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Ireland
ISBN : 9781909895010
With social and community services coming under increasing pressure as austerity continues, Unfinished Business examines how social policy has operated in Ireland and how it has been affected by consistent government cutbacks. It examines a wide range of issues important to social care students which are pertinent to Irish society today.
Author : Muiris MacCarthaigh
Publisher :
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 27,28 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
This title examines the institutions and principal processes involved in contemporary Irish government and public administration.
Author : E. Pine
Publisher : Springer
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 39,2 MB
Release : 2010-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0230295312
Irish culture is obsessed with the past, and this book asks why and how. In an innovative reading of Irish culture since 1980, Emilie Pine provides a new analysis of theatre, film, television, memoir and art, and interrogates the anti-nostalgia that characterizes so much of contemporary Irish culture.
Author : Pat Cooke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,88 MB
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 100045150X
As a contribution to cultural policy studies, this book offers a uniquely detailed and comprehensive account of the historical evolution of cultural policies and their contestation within a single democratic polity, while treating these developments comparatively against the backdrop of contemporaneous influences and developments internationally. It traces the climate of debate, policies and institutional arrangements arising from the state’s regulation and administration of culture in Ireland from 1800 to 2010. It traces the influence of precedent and practice developed under British rule in the nineteenth century on government in the 26-county Free State established in 1922 (subsequently declared the Republic of Ireland in 1949). It demonstrates the enduring influence of the liberal principle of minimal intervention in cultural life on the approach of successive Irish governments to the formulation of cultural policy, right up to the 1970s. From 1973 onwards, however, the state began to take a more interventionist and welfarist approach to culture. This was marked by increasing professionalization of the arts and heritage, and a decline in state support for amateur and voluntary cultural bodies. That the state had a more expansive role to play in regulating and funding culture became a norm of cultural discourse.