| Resumen: |
For more than five decades, UNRISD has been at the forefront of international development thinking that has emphasized the importance of social policy, defining it as a key instrument for inclusive development. UNRISD"s work has shaped the international policy discourse over time and has helped to bring social issues back onto agendas. The present compilation of UNRISD work on social policy, selected from 50 years of critical research by renowned scholars in the North and South, highlights key features of the Institute"s approach to social policy and development. In so doing it also provides conceptual and theoretical bases for analysing the contemporary social turn. The approach is characterized by its normative foundation in values associated with social justice, human rights and democracy; its interdisciplinary perspective linking political, economic and social analysis; its analytical concerns about root causes, historical processes and changing social relations and institutions; its focus on politics and power relations; and its critical stance vis-à-vis one-size-fits-all policy prescriptions and practices. |
