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Social Policy Review 23: Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2011

Chris Holden, Majella Kilkey, and Gaby Ramia

Abstract

This edition of this text presents an extensive analysis of the coalition government's social policies. In an expanded first section, experts in a range of policy areas analyse the rationale behind, and implications of, government reforms, whilst the second section examines education policy in an international context.

Keywords: social policy, coalition government, government reforms, education policy, rationale, policy areas

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2011 Print ISBN-13: 9781847428301
Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: March 2012 DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781847428301.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Chris Holden, editor

Majella Kilkey, editor

Gaby Ramia, editor

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Notes on contributors

Part One Symposium on the Coalition government

One Conservative social policy: from conviction to coalition

Bochel Hugh

Two Something old and blue, or red, bold and new? Welfare reform and the Coalition government

Wiggan Jay

Three The Conservative Party and the ‘Big Society’

Ellison Nick

Four The age of responsibility: social policy and citizenship in the early 21st century1

Lister Ruth

Five Debating the ‘death tax’: the politics of inheritance tax in the UK

Prabhakar Rajiv

Six The debate about public service occupational pension reform

Brunsdon Edward, and May Margaret

Seven Welfare to work after the recession: from the New Deals to the Work Programme

Finn Dan

Eight Lone parents and the Conservatives: anything new?

Haux Tina

Nine A treble blow? Child poverty in 2010 and beyond

Stewart Kitty

Ten The English NHS as a market: challenges for the Coalition government

Mays Nicholas

Part Two Education in international context

Eleven Citizenship education in international perspective: lessons from the UK and overseas

Kisby Ben, and James Sloam

Twelve “You’re only going to get it if you really shout for it”: education dispute resolution in the 21st century in England

Harris Neville

Thirteen A sin of omission: New Zealand’s export education industry and foreign policy

Butcher Andrew, and McGrath Terry

Fourteen Student security in the global education market

Marginson Simon, and Sawir Erlenawati

Fifteen Exporting policy: the growth of multinational education policy businesses and new policy ‘assemblages’

J. Ball Stephen

End Matter

Index