Social Policy Review 16

1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-1-84742-471-6
Verlag: Policy Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 508 g

Social Policy Review 16 has been given a new editorial lease of life and has been re-organised to reflect more closely key developments in the UK and internationally.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ellison, Nick

Bauld, Linda

Powell, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part One: Developments in UK social policy

Housing policy: coming in from the cold? ~ Brian Lund

The NHS in England: from modernisation to marketisation? ~ Judith Allsop and Rob Baggott

Developments in social security ~ Fran Bennett

The rise of the meritocracy? New Labour and education in the second term ~ Sally Tomlinson

The personal social services ~ Bill Jordan

Part Two: Social policy in the wider context

'Scottish solutions to Scottish problems'? Social welfare in Scotland since devolution ~ John Stewart

The primacy of ideology: social policy and the first term of the National Assembly for Wales ~ Paul Chaney and Mark Drakeford

Attlee versus Blair: Labour governments and progressive social policy in historical perspective ~ Robert M. Page

Christian democracy, social democracy and the continental 'welfare without work' syndrome ~ Kees van Kersbergen and Anton Hemerijck

Activation through thick and thin: progressive approaches to labour market activation ~ Jonah D. Levy

Part Three: Social policy since 1979 - the impact of Thatcherism

Social policy since 1979: a view from the right ~ David Marsland

Mrs Thatcher's legacy: getting it in perspective ~ Howard Glennerster

Privatisation, privatisation, privatisation: the British welfare state since 1979 ~ Hilary Land

Social policy since 1979: a view from the USA ~ Joseph White

Über Autor(innen)

Powell, Martin
Martin Powell is a Professor of Health and Social Policy at the University of Birmingham. Martin’s main research interest is in the British welfare state, especially the NHS. He has written or edited some 19 books, including some being translated into Chinese, Korean, and Polish. He has written over 80 peer reviewed articles, and he is a former editor of the journal ‘Social Policy and Administration’.

Ellison, Nick
Nick Ellison is Senior Lecturer and Head of Department of the Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Durham.

Nick Ellison is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Durham.