Recent Policy Press

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Recent Policy Press Titles – April 2011

Migration and welfare in the new Europe
Providing innovative insights, this book moves the debate on migration and integration policies in the enlarged European Union and its member states onto new terrain, by Carmel et al

How social security works
A broad, accessible introduction to the benefit system in Britain which can help readers to make sense of the system in practice, by Spicker

The purpose of planning
Planning is an important aspect of policy making. This book looks at a range of issues to unlock the purpose of planning, ideal for students and practitioners alike, by Rydin

Evidence versus politics
This book provides a new model for evidence-based policy in UK drug policy and will be essential reading for students and researchers in public policy and criminology, by Monaghan

To browse all current and forthcoming Public Policy and Governance titles from The Policy Press please go to: http://www.policypress.co.uk/browse_public_policy.asp.

May 2010

THE GOVERNANCE OF PROBLEMS: Puzzling, powering and participation
A compelling new approach to public policy-making as problem processing, bringing together aspects of puzzling, powering and participation and relating them to cultural theory, issues about networks, models of democracy and modes of citizen participation, by Robert Hoppe

RETHINKING THE PUBLIC: Innovations in research, theory and politics
This book rethinks the public, public communication and public action in a globalising and mediated world. It looks at how publics are brought into being and how to develop research agendas into their formation, offering a rich set of methodological resources on which other researchers can draw and foregrounding the need to interrogate the boundaries between theory, research and politics, edited by Nick Mahony, Janet Newman and Clive Barnett

INJUSTICE: Why social inequality persists
A hard-hitting and uncompromising in its call to action, this is essential reading for everyone concerned with social justice, by Daniel Dorling

To browse all current and forthcoming Public Policy and Governance titles from The Policy Press please go to: http://www.policypress.co.uk/browse_public_policy.asp.