Professor H. Dean, OLD 2.30 and others.

For MSc Social Policy and Planning (compulsory), MSc Gender, Policy and Inequalities, MSc Social Policy (Research), MSc China in Comparative Perspective, MSc Health, Population and Society, MSc European Social Policy, MSc Public Management and Governance and MSc Criminal Justice Policy. Also available, subject to approval, to other MScs in the Department of Social Policy and other MScs outside the department.

The nature of social policy and policymaking: key approaches and issues. The goals of social policy in relation to policy formation and the policymaking process. Issues including: the political economy of social policy; the mixed economy of welfare; the governance of social policy; gender and social policy; poverty, inequality and social exclusion; globalisation and the future of social policy.

10 weekly lectures and 10 weekly seminars MT.

Some introductory texts are: H Glennerster, British Social Policy since 1945, Blackwell, 3rd Edition, 2007; M Hill, Social Policy in the Modern World: A comparative text, Blackwell,2006; M Daly, Welfare, Polity, 2011; R Lister, Understanding Theories and Concepts in Social Policy, The Policy Press, 2010; H Dean, Social Policy, 2006. A full bibliography will be handed out with the programme of seminar topics at the start of the course.

A two-hour written examination in the ST.