Professor Eileen Munro, OLD 2.46 and others.

For MSc Social Policy and Planning, MSc China in Comparative Perspective, MSc Gender, Policy and Inequalities, MSc Criminal Justice Policy, MSc European Social Policy, MSc Social Policy (Research), MSc Health, Population and Society, MSc Public Management and Governance and, with approval, MScs outside the department.

This course examines the organisation of social policy, structures, processes and delivery, and recent developments in social policy in industrialised countries. The course examines how policy debates affect policy implementation, with a particular focus on innovation, identifying the social forces influencing the relevant policy changes, and examining the practical consequences for service provision in industrialised countries. Changes in the organisational structure and management approach, in the nature of social control, and in the social and economic context are examined.

The course consists of 10 lectures and 10 seminars in the LT with a revision seminar in the ST.

M Power, The Risk Management of Everything (2004). Downloadable from www.demos.co.uk; J Le Grand, Motivation, Agency and Public Policy: Of Knights and Knaves, Pawns and Queens, Oxford University Press (2003); D Garland, The Culture of Control, Oxford University Press (2001); J Hills, Inequality and the State, Oxford (2004); M Powell, Evaluating New Labour's Welfare Reforms, Policy Press (2002); G Lewis, Race, Gender and Social Welfare: encounters in a post colonial society, Polity Press (2000); M. Banton Discrimination (1994).

An assessed essay of 2,000 words to be handed in during the first week of the ST (25%). A two-hour written examination in the ST (75%).