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Prescribed Readings

 

• Dunn, W.N. 2018. Public Policy Analysis. An Introduction. 6^th ed. New York: Routledge.

 

• Adams, R. & Mahomed, F. 2018. A gendered analysis of policy developments in South Africa: towards a re-evaluation of substantive gender equality. (HSRC Policy Brief, March). 

 

•  African National Congress (ANC). 2017. Communications and the battle of ideas: Towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Catalysing economic growth, building an inclusive society & advancing a balanced public discourse: Discussion Document. Johannesburg: ANC. 

 

• Be´land, D., Rocco, U., Shi, S. & Waddan, A. 2018. Paths to (de)centralization: Changing territorial dynamics of social policy in the People’s Republic of China and the United States. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space. 36(5):897–915. 

 

• Beckfield, J., Morris, K.A. & Bambra, C. 2018. How social policy contributes to the distribution of population health:          The case of gender health equity. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. 46:6–17.

 

• Benmoussa, C. 2014. Desirable Social Policy Consequences of the Arab spring. In Hessle. S. Global Social Transformation and Social Action: The Role of Social Workers. Sweden: Stockholm University. 

 

• Bond, P. 2014. “Talk left, walk right” in South African social policy: Tokenistic extension of state welfare versus bottom-up commoning of services. Seminar paper delivered at the University of KwaZulu-Natal on 19 February 2014.

 

• Cahill, M. 2012. Green Perspectives. In Alcock, P; May, M & Wright, S (Eds). The Student’s Companion to Social Policy. 4th Ed. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell. 

 

• Cairney, P. 2020. The myth of ‘evidence-based policymaking’ in a decentred state. Public Policy and Administration. 37: 1; 46-66,  February 2020. 

 

• Callaghan, K. & Schnell, F. 2009. Who says what to whom: Why messengers and citizen beliefs matter in social policy framing. The Social Science Journal, 46:12-28.  

 

• Care, E., Kim, H., Anderson, K., & Gustafsson-Wright, E. 2017. Skills for a changing world: national perspectives and the global movement. Washington DC: Brookings. 

 

• Chatterjee, P & Vadapalli, D. 2009. The Impact of Social Policy. In Midgley, J & Livermore, M (Eds). The Handbook of Social Policy. 2nd Ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. 

 

•  Chikozho, C. & Nhemachena, C. 2017. Policy and institutional dimensions of Africa's political economy in an age of globalization. Harare: African Capacity Building Foundation. 

 

• Colebatch, H. 2018. The idea of policy design: Intention, process, outcome, meaning, and validity. Public Policy and Administration, 33(4):365-383. 

 

• Davidovitz, M. & Cohen, N. 2021. Politicians’ involvement in street-level policy implementation: Implications for social equity, Public Policy and Administration. June 2021. 

• Davidovitz, M. and Cohen, N., 2023. Politicians’ involvement in street-level policy implementation: Implications for social equity. Public Policy and Administration, 38(3), pp.309-328.

 

• Desmond, C., Timol, F., Groenewald, C. & Sausi, K. 2017. Towards the development of a contextualised homelessness policy: a Durban case study. (HSRC Policy Brief, November).

 

• Desmond, C., Viviers, A., Edwards, T., Rich, K., Martin, P. & Richter, L. 2019. Priority-setting in the rollout of South Africa’s National Integrated ECD Policy. Early Years, 39(3):276-294.

 

• Donaldson, L.P. & Shields, J. 2009. Development of the Policy Advocacy Behavior Scale: Initial Reliability and Validity. Research on Social Work Practice. 19(1):83-92. 

 

• Durnová, A.P. & Hejzlarová, E.M. 2018. Framing policy designs through contradictory emotions: The case of Czech single mothers. Public Policy and Administration, 33(4):409-427. 

 

• Fitzpatrick, T. 2004. Social Policy and Time. Time & Society. 13(2/3):197-219. 

 

• Godsäter, A. & Söderbaum, F. 2017. Civil society participation in regional social policy: The case of HIV/AIDS in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Global Social Policy. 17(2):119-136. 

 

• Hongoro, C, Rutebemberwa, E., Twalo, T., Mwendera, C., Douglas, M., Mukuru, M., Kasasa, S. & Ssengooba, F. 2018. Analysis of selected policies towards universal health coverage in Uganda: the policy implementation barometer protocol. Archives of Public Health. 76(12): 1-12.

 

• Hoppe R. 2018. Heuristics for practitioners of policy design: Rules-of-thumb for structuring unstructured problems. Public Policy and Administration, 33(4):384-408. 

 

• Horsell, C. 2017. A politics of compassion: Informing a new social policy for homelessness? International Social Work. 60(4):966- 975. 

 

• Howlett, M., Ramesh, M. & Wu, X. 2015. Understanding the persistence of policy failures: The role of politics, governance and uncertainty. Public Policy and Administration, 30(3-4): 209-220. 

 

• Hung, N.T., Trang, V.T., Ly, D.K.K., Hanh, L.H., Long, N.X., Nam, P.T. 2021. Policy response for disadvantaged groups during the COVID-19 pandemic: Vietnam experiences. International Social Work, 64(5):750-755. 

 

• Iatridis, D. 2009. Critical Social Policy. In Midgley, J & Livermore, M (Eds). The Handbook of Social Policy. 2nd Ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. 

 

• Immergut, E.M. 2011. Democratic Theory and Policy Analysis: Four Models of “Policy, Politics and Choice”. Recht und Management. 2011(1):69-86. 

 

• Jones, J., Clark, J. & Tripidaki, G. 2012. Social risk assessment and social capital: A significant parameter for the formation of climate change policies. The Social Science Journal, 49:33–41.

 

•  Kaasch, A. & Schulze Waltrup, R. 2021. Introduction: Global eco-social policy: Contestation within an emerging policy era? Global Social Policy, 21(2):319-322. 

 

• Kamaljit K. Sangha, K.S., Russell-Smith, J. & Costanza, R. 2019. Mainstreaming indigenous and local communities’ connections with nature for policy decision-making. Global Ecology and Conservation, 19:e00668.

 

• Kanyane, M.H., Mle, T. & Maclean, S. 2015. Policy decisions and their implications on service delivery in South Africa. In Allen-Ile, C.O.K., Kanyane, M.H. & Ile, I.U. (Eds). Governance and resource management in southern Africa: challenges and opportunities for advancement. Durban: Reach Publishers. 2-15. 

 

• Lee, S. & Aos, S. 2011. Using Cost–Benefit Analysis to Understand the Value of Social Interventions. Research on Social Work Practice. 21(6):682-688. 

 

• Lindström, J., Viklund, P., Tideman, F., Hällgren, B. & Elvelin, J. 2019. Oh no – not another policy! Oh Yes – an OT policy! Procedia CIRP, 81 (2019): 582-587.

 

• Lombard, A. & Viviers, A. 2020. The micro-macro nexus: Rethinking the relationship between social work, social policy and wider policy in a changing world. The British Journal of Social Work, 50(2) 8:2261–2278. 

 

• Mavrot, C. & Hadorn, S. 2021. When politicians do not care for the policy: Street-level compliance in cross-agency contexts. Public Policy and Administration, February 2021, 38(3):267-286. 

 

• McConnell, A. 2015. What is policy failure? A primer to help navigate the maze. Public Policy and Administration, 30(3-4):221-242. 

 

• McCulloch1, T. & Webb, S. 2020. What the Public Think about Social Services: A Report from Scotland. British Journal of Social Work, 50:1146–1166. 

 

• Morison, T., Lynch, I. & Macleod, C. 2016. Focus on 'the family'?: how South African family policy could fail us. (HSRC Policy Brief, March). 

 

• Murooka, T. & Schwarz, M.A. 2018. The timing of choice-enhancing policies. Journal of Public Economics, 157:27-40.

 

• Naicker, P. 2016. The developmental paradox: examples from the child support grant in South Africa. Global Social Policy, 16(2):212-214. 

 

• Nkondo, G.M. 2007. Ubuntu as public policy in South Africa: a conceptual framework. International Journal of African Renaissance Studies, 2(1):88-100. 

 

• Noyoo, N. 2018. Social policy after two decades of democracy in South Africa: A call for social re-engineering? The Thinker, 77(2018):22-27. 

 

• Nyenti, M. 2016. Role of constitutional principles and values in the development of social protection in South Africa. Global Social Policy, 16(2):201-217. 

 

• Plagerson, S., Patel, L., Hochfeld, T. & Ulriksen. M.S. 2019. Social policy in South Africa: Navigating the route to social development. World Development, 113(2019):1-9. 

 

• Richter, L. & Samuels, M-L. 2018. The South African universal preschool year: a policy development and implementation case study. Child: care, health and development, 44(1):12-18. 

 

• Rovny, A.E. 2014. The capacity of social policies to combat poverty among new social risk groups. Journal of European Social Policy, 24(5):405-423. 

 

• Samanta, A. & Hand, L. 2021. Examining the “in-between” of public encounters: Evidence from two seemingly disparate policy contexts. Public Policy and Administration, July 2021. 

 

• Silva, P.G. 2018. Social workers in the Revolution: Social work’s political agency and intervention in the Portuguese democratic transition (1974–1976). International Social Work, 61(3):425–436. 

 

• Spies-Butcher, B. & Stebbing, A. 2016. Climate change and the welfare state? Exploring Australian attitudes to climate and social policy. Journal of Sociology, 52(4):741–758. 

 

• Todes, A. & Turok, I. 2017. Spatial inequalities and policies in South Africa: place-based or people-centred? Progress in Planning, 

 

• Turnbull, N. 2018. Policy design: Its enduring appeal in a complex world and how to think it differently. Public Policy and Administration, 33(4):357-364. 

 

• Twalo, T. 2018. Challenges of knowledge production and knowledge use among researchers and policy-makers. Educational Action Research. 

 

• United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. 2017. From the Millennium Development Goals to the Sustainable Development Goals and Agenda 2063: Lessons for Africa. (ECA Policy Brief, ECA/17/001). 

 

• Uwe Dombrowski, u. & Wagner, T. 2014. Mental strain as field of action in the 4th Industrial Revolution. Procedia CIRP, 17:100-105. 

 

• Vargas-Hernandez, J., Noruzi, M.R. & Ali, I.F.N.H. 2011. What is Policy: Social Policy, and Social Policy Changing? International Journal of Business and Social Science, 2(10):287-291. 

 

• Waylen, K.A., Blackstock, et. al.. 2019. Policy-driven monitoring and evaluation: Does it support adaptive management of socio-ecological systems? Science of the Total Environment, 662:373-384. 

 

• Yang, L. 2020. Developing collaboration between research-oriented and practice-oriented experts in public administration: How does expert participation make a difference in public policy making and governance practice? Public Policy and Administration, September 2020. (2023, 38(1), 58-82.

 

•  Yu, K. & Magaya, I. 2018. Informing policy-making with systemic reviews and evidence gap maps. (HSRC Policy Brief, March)