Liberty, equality, fraternity - Hardcover

Spicker, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 186134841X ISBN 13: 9781861348418

Publisher: Policy Press, 2006

Synopsis

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Paul Spicker's new book takes the three founding principles of the French Revolution - Liberty, Equality, Fraternity - and examines how they relate to social policy today. The book considers the political and moral dimensions of a wide range of social policies, and offers a different way of thinking about each subject from the way it is usually analysed.

The book is in three main parts, one part devoted to Liberty, Equality and Fraternity in turn. Each part explores the elements and dimensions of the key concept, its application to policy, its interrelationship with the other two principles, and how policies have developed to promote the principle in society. The conclusion outlines three models of radical politics, based on the main concepts.

Liberty, equality, fraternity is an original, thought-provoking book, addressing perennial themes with many topical examples drawn from policy in practice, and offering distinctive insights into socialist and radical thinking.

About this title

About the Author

Paul Spicker is Emeritus Professor of Public Policy at the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. His research has included studies of poverty, need, disadvantage and service delivery. His books on social policy for Policy Press have discussed poverty, social security and the theory of social policy, and include a leading textbook, ‘Social Policy: Theory and Practice’.

Edition details

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 186134841X
• ISBN 13: 9781861348418
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208