Table of Contents

Part 1: From political theory to the practice of government
1. The scope of social policy 8
Graham Hassall & Girol Karacaoglu
2. Political and social thought 23
Chamsy el-Ojeili & Simon Barber
3. Social policy in global perspective 43
Graham Hassall & Kennedy Graham
Part 2: The New Zealand landscape
4. New Zealand society and national institutions 64
Graham Hassall & Māmari Stephens
5. New Zealand society, local institutions and social policy 79
Mike Reid, Christine Cheyne & Claudia Scott
6. Non-state influences on social policy 99
Nicky Stanley-Clarke, Kathryn Hay & Shirley Jülich
7. Dealing with uncertainty when designing policy 113
Arthur Grimes
Part 3: Policy design and implementation
8. Social policy instruments in a complex world 126
Elizabeth Eppel & Amanda Wolf
9. Statistics, big data and digital government 137
Elizabeth Eppel & Miriam Lips
10. Social investment: Policy-making for future benefits 150
Verna Smith
11. Taxes, negative taxes and social policy in New Zealand 165
Simon Chapple
12. Policy monitoring and evaluation 177
Jacqueline Cumming, Susan Buckley, Lynne Russell & Ausaga Fa’asalele Tanuvasa
13. Future-proofing and social policy 197
Jonathan Boston & Christine Cheyne
14. How does social policy work in practice? 213
Donna Provoost & Margaret McArthur
15. Critically researching social policy 228
Part 4: Key policy domains
16. Health 250
Lesley Middleton, Jacqueline Cumming & Verna Smith
17. Education policy: Changes and continuities since 1999 273
Bronwyn Wood, Martin Thrupp & Michael Barker
18. Housing 287
Scott Figenshow & Kay Saville-Smith
19. Alleviating poverty: Issues and options 315
Jonathan Boston
20. Welfare: Income levels and distribution 331
Gemma Piercy, Dayna East & Bill Cochrane
21. Crime, justice and the law: Social policy trends 348
and innovations
Tom Noakes-Duncan & Sarah Roth Shank
22. Gender and sexuality 361
Anna McMartin & Chris Brickell
23. Families and children 371
Kate C. Prickett
24. Social services 383
Nicky Stanley-Clarke, Lareen Cooper,
Paul’e Ruwhiu, Hagyun Kim & Shirley Jülich
25. The regulation of labour, employment and work 393
Stephen Blumenfeld
26. Ageing and retirement in Aotearoa New Zealand 408
Kathryn Maloney, Polly Yeung & Gemma Piercy
27. Refugees 425
Hagyun Kim & Lareen Cooper
About the contributors 438
Index 444

About the Author

Graham Hassall is an associate professor at Victoria University of Wellington (2010–present). He was president of the United Nations Association of New Zealand (2012–16) and is chair of the New Zealand Centre for Global Studies (2018–present).

Girol Karacaoglu BA, MBA (Bogaziçi University), PhD (University of Hawai’i) is head of the School of Government at Victoria University of Wellington. He was previously chief economist at the New Zealand Treasury. His academic fields of specialisation were in monetary and financial economics, international finance, econometrics, corporate accounting and finance.