Books written by Hugh Bochel

  • Making and Implementing Public Policy: Key Concepts and Issues

    Given these challenges to evidence-based policy making, after a decade of New Labour, Sanderson (2009) argued that there appeared to be sufficient doubts and criticisms to provide grounds for questioning the validity of the ...

  • Social Policy

    This is an essential textbook for undergraduate students taking courses in social policy and related subjects such as criminology, health studies, politics, sociology, nursing, youth and social work.

  • Social Policy

    The text explores the major topics and areas in contemporary social policy, including: work and welfare education adult health and social care children and families crime and criminal justice health housing race disability Issues are ...

  • Social Policy

    In addition to exploring the specific effect of the Second World War on the development of social policy, Titmuss also attempted to develop a more general theory, based on the ideas of the sociologist, Stanislaw Andrzejewski (1954), ...

  • Making and Implementing Public Policy: Key Concepts and Issues

    This brand new text examines power and inequalities and how these are central to our understanding of how policies are made and implemented.

  • Making and Implementing Public Policy: Key Concepts and Issues

    This brand new text from examines power and inequalities and how these are central to our understanding of how policies are made and implemented.

  • Social Policy

    Glasby, J. and Littlechild, R. (2016) Direct Payments and Personal Budgets: Putting Personalisation into Practice, 3rd edition, Policy Press, Bristol. Glendinning, C., et al. (2008) Evaluation of the Individual Budgets Pilot Programme, ...

  • Scotland Decides: The Devolution Issue and the 1997 Referendum

    ... page spread that devolution would ' tear apart the union we value so much ' and , on polling day , strongly advocated a No No vote with a front- page headline proclaiming ' £ 280 million bill for Scottish parliament ' . Among the daily ...

  • The Conservative Governments and Social Policy

    ... early education and childcare for working parents (Pascal et al, 2021). The extension of universal childcare in Scotland to 30 hours ... free school meals to all primary schools over the lifetime of the agreement ... implementation of policy ...