Abstract: Social cohesion is defined in, and adapted to, social policymaking in numerous ways. This paper attempts to clarify the definition with regard to the policymaking decisions of the U.K. government. In doing so, it brings to light the efforts of the 1998 Social Exclusion Unit government program that focused on recognizing how poverty grows in individual neighbourhoods, pointing out why neighbourhoods decline and how this could be prevented. The second phase of the program was to establish Policy Action Teams to fast-track policy thinking - including areas such as arts and sports - on the most serious issues within these neighbourhoods. From the Teams' reports, an interdisciplinary approach to social cohesion policymaking evolved. Th...
This book makes a forthright case for a shift in policy focus from ‘community cohesion’ to the broad...
textabstractAbstract Academics as well as policy-makers consider social cohesion to be an important...
However one defines social cohesion – and several alternatives will be presented in this chapter – i...
In the past 5 years, several scientific articles have been written on the theme of social cohesion i...
European sport policies and programmes have increasingly focused on promoting social cohesion. Often...
Interest in the concept of social cohesion has waxed and waned since Durkheim's foundation studies a...
New Labour developed an ambitious programme to address what it saw as increasing social divisions in...
The community cohesion policy agenda in England emerged from the mêlée of explanation and advice tha...
Academics as well as policy-makers consider social cohesion to be an important quality of cities. A...
Abstract: The deterioration of social cohesion throughout the Netherlands has caused the government ...
Across Western Europe, 'social cohesion' is seen to be at risk, and its protection has become an imp...
ABSTRACT In the past 5 years, several scientific articles have been written on the theme of social...
This book makes a forthright case for a shift in policy focus from 'community cohesion' to the broad...
This paper interrogates a concept at the core of a social policy agenda that has dominated thinking ...
The paper has three tasks. The first is to define the concept of social cohesion within the framewor...
This book makes a forthright case for a shift in policy focus from ‘community cohesion’ to the broad...
textabstractAbstract Academics as well as policy-makers consider social cohesion to be an important...
However one defines social cohesion – and several alternatives will be presented in this chapter – i...
In the past 5 years, several scientific articles have been written on the theme of social cohesion i...
European sport policies and programmes have increasingly focused on promoting social cohesion. Often...
Interest in the concept of social cohesion has waxed and waned since Durkheim's foundation studies a...
New Labour developed an ambitious programme to address what it saw as increasing social divisions in...
The community cohesion policy agenda in England emerged from the mêlée of explanation and advice tha...
Academics as well as policy-makers consider social cohesion to be an important quality of cities. A...
Abstract: The deterioration of social cohesion throughout the Netherlands has caused the government ...
Across Western Europe, 'social cohesion' is seen to be at risk, and its protection has become an imp...
ABSTRACT In the past 5 years, several scientific articles have been written on the theme of social...
This book makes a forthright case for a shift in policy focus from 'community cohesion' to the broad...
This paper interrogates a concept at the core of a social policy agenda that has dominated thinking ...
The paper has three tasks. The first is to define the concept of social cohesion within the framewor...
This book makes a forthright case for a shift in policy focus from ‘community cohesion’ to the broad...
textabstractAbstract Academics as well as policy-makers consider social cohesion to be an important...
However one defines social cohesion – and several alternatives will be presented in this chapter – i...