Publisher's Synopsis
Social policies concerning the education, health, housing, and economic welfare of the American people are central to the domestic political debate, however, little attention has been given to the spatial dimensions of controversies over the design, implementation, operation, and effectiveness of social programmes. This book brings together a set of analyses which demonstrate that all such programmes are affected by the context from which they emerge and the setting in which they are implemented. The significance of geography in social policy is evident at every level in the government hierarchy but this book is the first to bring together in one volume an investigation by geographers of the role of context and space in the analysis of social policy.
