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HGA223 - Social Problems and Social Policy

Offered By: Arts

Lecturer: Dr Max Travers

Unit Code: HGA223

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Adams, D. , 2001, 'Community in Public Policy: Fad or Foundation?', Australian journal of public administration , 60, 2, 13-23

Altman, J 2002, ‘Indigenous hunter-gatherers in the 21st century: beyond the limits of universalism in Australian social policy?’, in T Eardley & B Bradbury (eds), Competing visions: proceedings of the National Social Policy Conference, Sydney, 4-6 July 2001, SPRC report no. 1/02, Social Policy Research Centre, Sydney

Archer, V , 2010, 'The Australian tax revolt: constructing a "new class" in 1978', Journal of Australian Studies, 34, 1, 19-33

Arthurson, K , 2008, 'Australian public housing and the diverse histories of social mix', Journal of urban history, 34, 3, 484-501

Arthurson, K, Darcy, M & Rogers, D , 2014, 'Televised territorial stigma: how social housing tenants experience the fictional media representation of estates in Australia', Environment and planning. A , 46, 6, 1334-1350

Australian Council of Social Service ; Brotherhood of St Laurence ; The Climate Institute , 2017, 'Empowering disadvantaged households to access affordable, clean, energy', .

Australian Government,Australian Public Service Commission, (2018). Tackling wicked problems: A public policy perspective

Bacchi, C 2009, Chapter 2. Rethinking policy analysis: theory and politics (in) Bacchi, Carol Lee, Bacchi, Carol Lee: Analysing policy : what's the problem represented to be?, Pearson Education,, Frenchs Forest, N.S.W.

Bailey, N & Johnson, G , 2009, 'Atypical? An analysis of case studies in the white paper', Parity, 22, 1, 16-17

Baker, P, Friel, S, Kay, A, Baum, F, Strazdins, L & Mackean, T , 2018, 'What enables and constrains the inclusion of the social determinants of health inequities in government policy agendas? A narrative review', International journal of health policy and management, 7, 2, 101-111

Blumer, H, 1971, 'Social problems as collective behaviour', Social problems , 18, 3, 298-306

Booth, S & Whelan, J , 2014, 'Hungry for change: the food banking industry in Australia', British Food Journal, 116, 9, 1392-1404

Brennan, T , 1974, 'Rezoning the poor', Australian Journal of Social Issues, 9, 2, 87-99

Brown, G, O’Donnell, D, Crooks, L & Lake, R , 2014, 'Mobilisation, politics, investment and constant adaptation: lessons from the Australian health-promotion response to HIV', Health promotion journal of Australia, 25, 1, 35-41

Bullen, J , 2015, 'Governing homelessness: the discursive and institutional construction of homelessness in Australia', Housing, Theory and Society, 32, 2, 218-239

Burgmann, V , 2000, 'The point of protest: advocacy and social action in twentieth century Australia', Just Policy: A journal of Australian social policy, 19-20, 7-15

Carey, G, Malbon, E, Olney, S & Reeders, D , 2018, 'The personalisation agenda: the case of the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme', International Review of Sociology, 28, 1, 20-34

Castles, FG , 1994, 'The wage earners’ welfare state revisited: refurbishing the established model of Australian social protection, 1983-1993', Australian Journal of Social Issues, 29, 2, 120-145

Darcy, M , 2010, 'De-concentration of disadvantage and mixed income housing: a critical discourse approach', Housing, Theory and Society, 27, 1, 1-22

David, C & West, R , 2017, 'NDIS self-management approaches: opportunities for choice and control or an Uber-style wild west?', Australian Journal of Social Issues, 52, 4, 331-346

Dean, Mitchell. 1999, Basic concepts and themes (in) Dean, Mitchell: Governmentality : power and rule in modern society, SAGE, London

Denny, L & Pisanu, N 2019, Regional population trends in Tasmania: issues and options, Institute Insight no. 9, Institute for the Study of Social Change, Hobart.

Dodson, J , 2006, ''The "roll" of the state: government, neoliberalism and housing assistance in four advanced economies', Housing, Theory and Society, 23, 4, 224-243

Eccleston, R 2004, The thirty year problem: the politics of tax reform, Research Study no. 42, Australian Tax Research Foundation, Sydney.

Esping-Andersen, G , 1990, 'The three political economies of the welfare state', International journal of sociology, 20, 3, 92-123

Everingham, C , 1999, 'Making and breaking the corporatist welfare state: “new left” politics from participation to consultation', Third sector review, 5, 1, 125-145

Fine, Michael D 2007, Chapter 7. The body, individualization and the transformation of personal life (in) Fine, Michael D.: A caring society? : care and the dilemmas of human service in the twenty-first century, Palgrave Macmillan,, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire

Fisher, M, Baum, F, MacDougall, C, Newman, L & McDermott, D , 2016, 'To what extent do Australian health policy documents address social determinants of health and health equity?', Journal of Social Policy, 45, 3, 545-564

Forman, A , 2017, 'Energy justice at the end of the wire: enacting community energy and equity in Wales', Energy policy, 107, 649-657

Fraser, N. & Gordon, L, 1994, 'A genealogy of dependency: tracing a keyword of the US welfare state', Signs : journal of women in culture and society., 19, 2, 309-336

Gabriel, M & Watson, P , 2012, 'Supporting sustainable home improvement in the private rental sector: the view of investors', Urban policy and research , 30, 3, 309-325

Gabriel, M. & Jacobs, K , 2006, ''Opportunities and constraints in state housing policy: the example of Tasmania’s “Affordable Housing Strategy', Urban policy and research , 24, 4, 539-551

Galbally, R , 2000, 'Rights to health - or medicine: the health promotion perspective', Australian and New Zealand journal of family therapy, 21, 4, 201-204

Germov, J. 2002, Chapter 1. Imagining health problems as social issues - Includes Appendix (in) Germov, John.: Second opinion : an introduction to health sociology, Oxford University Press,, South Melbourne :

Germov, John. 2008, Food, Class and Identity (in) Germov, John, Williams, Lauren: A sociology of food and nutrition : the social appetite, Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, Vic.

Gurran, N & Phibbs, P , 2015, 'Are governments really interested in fixing the housing problem? Policy capture and busy work in Australia', Housing studies, 30, 5, 711-729

Hayward, D , 1996, 'The reluctant landlords? A history of public housing in Australia', Urban policy and research , 14, 1, 5-35

Head, BW , 2008, 'Three lenses of evidence-based policy', Australian Journal of Public Administration, 67, 1, 1-11

Head, BW & Alford, J , 2015, 'Wicked problems: implications for public policy and management', Administration & society , 47, 6, 711-739

Hiteva, RP , 2013, 'Fuel poverty and vulnerability in the EU low-carbon transition: the case of renewable electricity', Local environment : the international journal of justice and sustainability, 18, 4, 487-505

Holland, C 2018, A ten-year review: the Closing the Gap strategy and recommendations for reset, report from the Close the Gap Campaign Steering Committee for Indigenous Health Equality, Australian Human Rights Commission, Sydney.

Housing Ministers of Australia, 2009, 'Implementing the National Housing Reforms Conference: Progress Report to the Council of Australian Governments (COAG)', .

Howard, C , 2001, 'Bureaucrats in the social policy process: administrative policy entrepreneurs and the case of Working Nation', Australian Journal of Public Administration, 60, 3, 56-65

Jacobs, K , 2015, 'The "politics" of Australian housing: the role of lobbyists and their influence in shaping policy', Housing studies, 30, 5, 694-710

Jacobs, K , 2018, 'Interpretative and constructionist accounts: their usefulness for understanding “social problems”', SocietàMutamentoPolitica , 9, 18, 175-188

Jacobs, K , 2015, 'A reverse form of welfarism: some reflections on Australian housing policy', Australian Journal of Social Issues, 50, 1, 53-68

Jamrozik, Adam. 2009, Chapter 2. Social policy in a “free-market” economy (in) Jamrozik, Adam.: Social policy in the post-welfare state : Australian society in a changing world, Pearson Education Australia, Frenchs Forest, N.S.W.

Jamrozik, Adam. 2009, The post-welfare state and its future (in) Jamrozik, Adam.: Social policy in the post-welfare state : Australian society in a changing world, Pearson Education Australia, Frenchs Forest, N.S.W.

Kemeny, J , 1977, 'A political sociology of home ownership in Australia', Journal of sociology, 13, 47-52

Lancaster, K , 2014, 'Social construction and the evidence-based drug policy endeavour', International journal of drug policy, 25, 5, 948-951

Lee, M , 2017, 'The art of dependency: the NDIS promised choice and control', The Monthly, 136, 33-39

Lingard, B , 2016, 'Think tanks, “policy experts” and “ideas for” education policy making in Australia', Australian educational researcher , 43, 1, 15-33

Macdonald, R, Shildrick, T & Furlong, A , 2014, 'In search of "intergenerational cultures of worklessness": hunting the Yeti and shooting zombies', Critical social policy, 34, 2, 199-220

Marier, P & Van Pevenage, I , 2017, 'Three competing interpretations of policy problems: tame and wicked problems through the lenses of population ageing', Policy and Society, 36, 3, 430-445

Marmot, Michael, 2005, 'Social determinants of health inequalities', The Lancet‎, 365, 9464, 1099-1104

Marston, G & McDonald, C , 2007, 'Assessing the policy trajectory of welfare reform in Australia', Benefits, 15, 3, 233-245

Marston, Greg; McDonald, Catherine., 2008, 'Feeling motivated yet? Long-term unemployed people's perspectives on the implementation of workfare in Australia', The Australian journal of social issues, 43, 2, 255-269

McClelland, Alison, Marston, G. 2010, A Framework for understanding and action (in) Smyth, Paul, McClelland, Alison: Social policy in Australia : understanding for action, Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, Vic.

McDonald, C & Marston, G , 2002, 'Fixing the niche? Rhetorics of the community sector in the neo-liberal welfare regime', Just Policy: A journal of Australian social policy, 27, 3-10

McMillan, R 2015, Strategic interventions to population decline. Commissioned report for the Local Government Shared Services, University of Wailkato, Hamilton.

Morrissey, M , 2006, 'The Australian state and Indigenous people 1990-2006', Journal of sociology , 42, 4, 347-354

Onyx, J, Armitage, L, Dalton, B, Melville, R, Casey, J & Banks, R , 2010, 'Advocacy with gloves on: the “manners” of strategy used by some third sector organisations undertaking advocacy in NSW and Queensland', Voluntas, 21, 1, 41-61

Orchard, L , 1998, 'Managerialism, economic rationalism and public sector reform in Australia: connections, divergences, alternatives', Australian Journal of Public Administration, 57, 1, 9-32

Phillips, R , 2006, 'The role of non-profit advocacy organizations in Australian democracy and policy governance', Voluntas, 17, 1, 59-75

Pierson, P , 2000, 'Three worlds of welfare state research', Comparative political studies , 33, 6/7, 791-821

Pusey, M 1992, Chapter 3. The inner triangle (in) Pusey, Michael.: Economic rationalism in Canberra : a nation-building state changes its mind, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

Quiggin, J 2005, Chapter 2. Economic liberalism: fall, revival and resistance (in) Saunders, Peter, Walter, James: Ideas and influence : social science and public policy in Australia, UNSW Press,, Sydney :

Rahman, K, 2010, 'Addressing the foundtions for Improved Indigenous secondary student outcomes”. A South Australian qualitative study', The Australian journal of indigenous education, 39, 65-76

Reith, G, 2007, 'Gambling and the contradictions of consumption', The American behavioral scientist, 51, 1, 33-55

Schneider, A & Ingram, H , 1993, 'Social construction of target populations: implications for politics and policy', American Political Science Review, 87, 2, 334-347

Sinclair, S 2016, Analysing social policies (in) Sinclair, Stephen P.: Introduction to social policy analysis : Illuminating welfare, Policy press,, Bristol :

Smith, J, Crawford, G, & Signal, L , 2016, 'The case of national health promotion policy in Australia: where to now?', Health promotion journal of Australia, 27, 1, 61-65

Taylor, S , 1997, 'Critical policy analysis: exploring contexts, texts and consequences', Discourse : studies in the cultural politics of education, 18, 1, 23-35

Thill, C , 2015, 'Listening for policy change: how the voices of disabled people shaped Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme', Disability & society, 30, 12, 15-28

Tiernan, A & Burke, T , 2002, 'A load of old garbage: applying garbage-can theory to contemporary housing policy', Australian Journal of Public Administration, 61, 3, 86-97

Travers, M. , 2014, 'A price worth paying? Accountability, red tape and the regulation of affordable housing', Australian Journal of Social Issues, 49, 4, 403-422

Tyler, I , 2013, 'The riots of the underclass? Stigmatisation, mediation and the government of poverty and disadvantage in neoliberal Britain', Sociological Research Online , 18, 4, 1–10

Valentine, K, 2016, 'Complex needs and wicked problems: how social disadvantage became multiple', Social policy and society, 15, 2, 237-249

Walter, M , 2018, 'The voice of Indigenous data: beyond the markers of disadvantage', Griffith review, 60, 256-263

Warr, D , 2005, 'Social networks in a "discredited" neighbourhood', Journal of sociology , 41, 3, 285-308

Waters, E. and Baur, L, 2003, 'Childhood obesity: Modernity’s scourge', Medical journal of Australia, 178, 9, 422-423

Watson, P, Gabriel, M & Rooney, M , 2015, 'Get bill smart: a community partnership approach to supporting low-income households to achieve home energy savings', Indoor and Built Environment, 24, 7, 867-877

Wiesel, I & Bigby, C , 2015, 'Movement on shifting sands: deinstitutionalisation and people with intellectual disability in Australia, 1974-2014', Urban policy and research , 33, 2, 178-194

Wilson, T , 2015, 'The demographic constraints on future population growth', Australian Geographer, 46, 1, 91-111

Woodward, R , 1997, 'Paradise lost: reflections on some failings of Radburn', Australian planner , 34, 1, 25-29

Yates, J , 2013, 'Evaluating social and affordable housing reform in Australia: lessons to be learned from history', International journal of housing policy, 13, 2, 111-133

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