This reader collects together for the first time a comprehensive range of key papers by leaders in the field from a wide range of sources that explain the concepts, actors and processes that constitute global social policy. The Reader will have broad appeal among undergraduate and postgraduate students in a range of social science subjects.

Nicola Yeates, Department of Social Policy, The Open University and Chris Holden, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine