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Edward Elgar is a leading international publisher of public and social policy titles, specializing in monographs, upper-level textbooks and reference collections.  We seek to publish the very best research in this area that both challenges and reflects contemporary thinking in the global arena.

Our monograph program includes cutting-edge publications on ageing and pensions, gender and family policy, health, evaluation and impact assessment, labour policy, education, regulation, technology policy, public sector management, public choice, local government and fiscal federalism, and terrorism and security studies.  Our original reference series comprises comprehensive Handbooks and Companions providing scholars and students with invaluable tools for research and teaching and our Research Collections gather the most important articles on current and salient issues. Our textbook list offers a unique resource for classroom adoption.  In addition, our Globalization and Welfare series and New Horizons in Public Policy series produce books at the very forefront of public and social policy research.  We are proud to count among our authors and editors such luminaries as Jens Alber, John Braithwaite, Frank Castles, Patricia Kennett, Jane Lewis, Wayne Parsons, Christopher Pollitt and Jacqueline Scott.

We regularly host book displays at a large number of conferences in Europe and the US, including a number of smaller, more specialist conferences pertinent to our list.

We welcome all enquiries and are happy to consider new book proposals at any stage.

Social Policy Proposals

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