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Social Policy Review 16: Analysis and debate in social policy, 2004

Nick Ellison, Linda Bauld, and Martin Powell

Abstract

This ‘new look’ edition is designed to provide readers with up-to-date information about developments and changes in core UK social policy areas. Additional chapters provide in-depth analyses of topical issues in the UK and internationally, while the new themed section examines the changes that have taken place in UK welfare since the first Thatcher government came to power.

Keywords: UK welfare, Thatcher government, social policy, UK social policy

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2004 Print ISBN-13: 9781847424716
Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: March 2012 DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781847424716.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Nick Ellison, editor

Linda Bauld, editor

Martin Powell, editor

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Notes on contributors

Introduction

Nick Ellison, Linda Bauld, and Martin Powell

Part One: Developments in UK social policy

One Housing policy: coming in from the cold?

Brian Lund

Two The NHS in England: from modernisation to marketisation?

Judith Allsop, and Rob Baggott

Three Developments in social security

Fran Bennett

Four The rise of the meritocracy? New Labour and education in the second term

Sally Tomlinson

Five The personal social services

Bill Jordan

Part Two:Social policy in the wider context

Six ‘Scottish solutions to Scottish problems’? Social welfare in Scotland since devolution

John Stewart

Seven The primacy of ideology: social policy and the first term of the National Assembly for Wales

Paul Chaney, and Mark Drakeford

Eight Attlee versus Blair: Labour governments and progressive social policy in historical perspective

Robert M. Page

Nine Christian democracy, social democracy and the continental ‘welfare without work’ syndrome

Kees van Kersbergen, and Anton Hemerijck

Ten Activation through thick and thin: progressive approaches to labour market activation

Jonah D. Levy

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

Eleven Social policy since 1979: a view from the right

David Marsland

Twelve Mrs Thatcher’s legacy: getting it in perspective

Howard Glennerster

Thirteen Privatisation, privatisation, privatisation: the British welfare state since 1979

Hilary Land

Fourteen Social policy since 1979: a view from the USA

Joseph White

End Matter

Index