Fully updated to take account of the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath, Understanding the policy process (3e) draws on the latest and best social science to explain how and why policy change occurs. Using core concepts of policy analysis in each chapter, it builds up a fully worked explanation of policy change that can be applied to any aspect of welfare policy, public and social policy.
Author Biography
John Hudson is Professor of Social Policy at the University of York, where Stuart Lowe is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Dan Horsfall is Lecturer in Comparative Social Policy. Together the authors have extensive experience of teaching and researching across a wide range of social policy fields.
