Welcome to Social Policy World Wide:

Home Page of  Catherine Jones Finer PhD

Honorary Professor, University of Birmingham (retired 2001);                                            Senior Associate Member, St Antony's College Oxford (2001-3).

Freelance academic in international comparative social policy
viz

• Welfare regimes
• Policy-making processes
• Patterns of development
• Roles of:
• State
• Market
• NGOs
• Family
• Community

      In respect of:

• Social security
• Health care
• Education
• Housing
• Social care.. …

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'Social Policy Worldwide' is not about what 'ought' to be done. It is about trying to understand what variously is and is not being done, to what effect and why.

There is no single, universally acceptable recipe for 'the good society'. But this does not mean we cannot benefit from each other's experience.