Talking Policy: How Social Policy Is Made (Paperback)

IntroductionPART A: Thinking about social policy1: Theorising social policy2: The Australian welfare state: Compared and contrasted3: History Matters4: Australian liberalism: Ideas at work in Australian social policy5: Inequality and the Australian welfare state 6: Poverty, ethics and social policyPART B: Making policy7: State organisations and social policy makingCase study: Mandatory sentencing, the nation-state and international law 1991-20048: Putting the social into policy: policy making communitiesCase study: Talking about drugs: Chroming, the press and policy making9: Talking of metaphors and policy makingCase study: Policy change and metaphor - the case of university feesConclusion: On truth, the state and social policy