Where Academia and Policy Meet: A Cross-National Perspective on the Involvement of Social Work Academics in Social Policy

Where Academia and Policy Meet: A Cross-National Perspective on the Involvement of Social Work Academics in Social Policy
ISBN-10
1447320190
ISBN-13
9781447320197
Category
Social Science
Pages
304
Language
English
Published
2017-03-29
Publisher
Policy Press
Authors
John, Gal, Weiss-Gal

Description

Though academia has the reputation of being removed from the world, in reality the worlds of the academy and politics meet frequently, and in a variety of ways--productive and unproductive. This book presents the results of the first major crossnational comparative study of academic engagement in the creation of social policy. It offers new empirical data from twelve countries across Europe, North America, and the Middle East, with each chapter providing a brief overview of social work and social work education in the country under consideration, then presenting new data on the interactions between scholars and policy makers there.

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