- Title
- The political participation of social workers: a comparative study
- Creator
- Gray, Mel; Collett van Rooyen, Colin; Rennie, Gavin; Gaha, Jo
- Relation
- International Journal of Social Welfare Vol. 11, Issue 2, p. 99-110
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-2397.00204
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2002
- Description
- This article reports on a comparative study that examined the political participation of social workers in KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa, the state of New South Wales (excluding the Hunter region) in Australia, and New Zealand. Each of these contexts had roughly the same number of social workers, that is, approximately 1,200. It was found that social workers in New Zealand tended to be more politically active than their counterparts in New South Wales and KwaZulu-Natal, and the reasons for this are examined. In the process, New Zealand is presented as a case study of the way in which social work has responded to its political context. Finally, conclusions are drawn as to the engagement of social workers in the policy cycle and of the need for them to become more active politically.
- Subject
- social work; politics; political participation; social policy; human rights; social justice
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/937674
- Identifier
- uon:12597
- Identifier
- ISSN:1369-6866
- Rights
- The definitive version is available at wileyonlinelibrary.com
- Language
- eng
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