Full Description
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.
Contents
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
