Building on the successes of Understanding Global Social Policy (Yeates ed.
2008) and its companion text, the Global Social Policy Reader (Yeates and Holden
ed. 2009), the second edition of this leading textbook in social policy
identifies and reviews the key issues, debates and priorities for action in
global social policy as a field of academic study and research and as a field of
political practice and action. All first edition chapters have been
systematically revised and updated to reflect major developments in the
fast-paced area of global social policy making over the past five years, and
include new material on the Millennium Development Goals, the Social