Books written by Gerry
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Exploring Social Policy in the 'new' Scotland
Themes. and. questions. The dominant approach to social policy adopted in this book is one that seeks to explore social and welfare policy in its broadest sense, relating developments in social policy innovation to wider questions of ...
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Evidence-based Policy Making in the Social Sciences: Methods that Matter
This book gathers an expert group of social scientists to showcase emerging forms of analysis and evaluation for public policy analysis.
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Exploring Social Policy in the 'new' Scotland
Exploring social policy in the 'new' Scotland is the first book to integrate the description and analysis of social policy in Scotland since devolution in 1999.
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New Labour/hard Labour?: Restructuring and Resistance Inside the Welfare Industry
Welfare delivery has become a central point of industrial relations disputes in the UK today. This book provides the first critically informed discussion of work and workers in the UK welfare sector under New Labour.
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Evidence-Based Policy Making in the Social Sciences: Methods That Matter
He works mostly in the areas of environmental governance and democratic theory and practice. ... His research is in the development of methods evidence synthesis and in research on the use of research evidence in policy, practice and ...
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New Labour/hard labour?: Restructuring and resistance inside the welfare industry
Welfare delivery has become a central point of industrial relations disputes in the UK today. This book provides the first critically informed discussion of work and workers in the UK welfare sector under New Labour.
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Evidence-Based Policy Making in the Social Sciences: Methods That Matter
Drawing on the insights of some of the world’s leading authorities in public policy analysis, this important book offers a distinct and critical showcase of emerging forms of discovery for policy-making.
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Evidence-based policy making in the social sciences: Methods that matter
... data organisation. Visual methods may require society • Building on a long tradition.Visual methods are well established in other social ... policy making in the social sciences Strengths and challenges of visual methods for policy making.
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Words That Matter
Words That Matter attempts to spark conversation around social issues that are often neglected either for their lack of beauty or sheer rigidity.