📚 Social Policy

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with social policy on their catalogue record, first published between 1829 and 2019, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject social policy in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 33,653 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Sociology	Richard T. Schaefer	1979	53
American social welfare policy	Howard Jacob Karger	1990	28
Family Policy Matters	Karen Bogenschneider	2002	21
Scènes de la vie privée	Honoré de Balzac	1829	19
Social Policy and Social Justice	Michael Reisch	2013	18
Understanding public policy	Thomas R. Dye	1969	17
The rich get richer and the poor get prison	Jeffrey H. Reiman	1979	15
The reluctant welfare state	Bruce S. Jansson	1988	15
Social work policy practice	Jessica A. Ritter	2012	15
Why Nations Fail	Daron Acemoglu	2012	15
Die Wirtschafts- und Sozialordnung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland	Heinz Lampert	1965	14
Taking Sides	Kurt Finsterbusch	1992	14
The people's rights	Winston S. Churchill	1909	12
The constitution of liberty	Friedrich A. von Hayek	1960	12
Social welfare	Diana M. DiNitto	1983	12
Social policy and social programs	Donald E. Chambers	1986	12
Social justice and the city	David Harvey	1973	11
Thinking in systems	Donella H. Meadows	2008	11
Inequality in US Social Policy	Bryan Warde	2016	11
Culture and Civilization	Irving Louis Horowitz	2017	10
Hindu society at cross roads	Kavalam Madhava Panikkar	1956	9
From mammy to Miss America and beyond	K. Sue Jewell	1992	9
Social Ethics	Jane S. Zembaty	1996	9
Social policy	Hugh M. Bochel	2005	9
Everyday Community Practice	Amanda Howard	2019	9
Studies in philosophy, politics and economics	Friedrich A. von Hayek	1967	8
The evolution of the British Welfare State	Derek Fraser	1973	8
Dimensions of social welfare policy	Neil Gilbert	1974	8
Understanding social policy	Michael J. Hill	1980	8
Introducing social policy	Cliff Alcock	2000	8

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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