Social Workers in Political Office: A Comparative Perspective on Recruitment, Career Patterns and Social Advocacy (Research in Social Work). Questo articolo non è disponibile.Social Workers in Political Office: A Comparative Perspective on Recruitment, Career Patterns and Social Advocacy (Research in Social Work)

The first book to provide systematic and comparative empirical insights into a major way that social workers engage with policy – by holding elected office – this book analyses how and why social workers engage in electoral politics in liberal democracies.

Tobias Kindler is Research Associate at the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences and a doctoral candidate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Sigrid Leitner is Professor of Social Policy at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences.

Eva Maria Löffler is a social worker and Professor of Social Work at IU International University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg.

Klaus Stolz is a political scientist and Professor of British and American Social and Cultural Studies at Chemnitz University of Technology.