Broadening Our Focus, Asking Questions and Providing an Answer

Abstract

The Social Policy Journal continues its growth with this, its third issue. We broaden our focus, ask questions and provide an answer with this set of articles. As such, we move in the direction laid out in the vision of the Journal, taking another step towards becoming “the journal of choice for manuscripts concerning social policy, policy practice, administration of social policy, history of social policy, evaluation of social policy, comparisons of social policy, and teaching of social policy” (emphasis in original). It is a truism that we live in an international and global society. Ideas pass from one part of the world to another via e-mail and the Internet in an instant. The simple fact that we have received manuscripts from around the world indicates that information travels quickly. This issue of The Social Policy Journal finds us recognizing the international nature of social policy debates as we publish two papers examining social policy outside of the United States’ borders, specifically the relationship between government and the voluntary sector. Patricia Ware and Malcolm J. Todd examine this situation in the United Kingdom while Linda J. Roberts dissects the changing context of small nonprofits in Canada. Shifts in government ideology have profound impacts on the lives of cli-