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Regional and Special Issues in Social Policy & Administration
Author(s) -
Jones Finer Catherine,
Greve Bent
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
social policy and administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.972
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1467-9515
pISSN - 0144-5596
DOI - 10.1111/spol.12259
Subject(s) - possession (linguistics) , administration (probate law) , political science , social memory , sociology , public administration , law , psychology , philosophy , linguistics , cognitive science
This article explores the emergence and elaboration of regional and special issues of Social Policy & Administration (SP&A) from the contrasting perspectives of the two editors principally involved in their production as a distinctive feature of the journal. Catherine Jones Finer, who retired from editorial involvement in 2007, writes from memory of her own experience (which featured the introduction of regional then special issues as an ongoing series) drawing on the run of printed copies of SP&A still in her possession. Bent Greve then draws on his own access to a much wider and more up‐to‐date range of documents to trace trends and developments over time, not merely in the content of the regional and special issues themselves, but in the increasingly international and supra‐national social policy environment to which they relate.