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Social Policy Review 17

Martin Powell, Linda Bauld, and Karen Clarke

Abstract

Social Policy Review 17 provides students, academics, and all those interested in welfare issues with detailed analyses of progress and change in areas of major interest during the past year. Contributions reflect key developments in the UK and internationally, and focus on developments and change in core UK social policy areas. Additional chapters provide in-depth analyses of topical issues in both a UK and international perspective. This year's themed section is New Labour.

Keywords: UK developments, international developments, New Labour

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2005 Print ISBN-13: 9781861346704
Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: March 2012 DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781861346704.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Martin Powell, editor

Linda Bauld, editor

Karen Clarke, editor

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Notes on contributors

Introduction

Powell Martin, Bauld Linda, and Clarke Karen

Part One: Current services

One Social security and welfare reform under New Labour

A. Kemp Peter

Two New Labour’s education policy: innovation or reinvention?

Hulme Rob, and Hulme Moira

Three Transforming the NHS: the story in 2004

Klein Rudolf

Four Housing in an ‘opportunity society’

Malpass Peter

Five Personal Social Services

Netten Ann

Part Two: Current issues

Six Governance and social policy in Northern Ireland (1999–2004): the devolution years and postscript

McLaughlin Eithne

Seven At home abroad: the presidential election of 2004, the politics of American social policy and what European readers might make of these subjects

Marmor Theodore

Eight The future of healthcare in the UK: think-tanks and their policy prescriptions

Ruane Sally

Nine Consumerism and the reform of public services: inequalities and instabilities

Clarke John, Smith Nick, and Vidler Elizabeth

Ten The challenges of measuring government output in the healthcare sector

Castelli Adriana, Dawson Diane, Gravelle Hugh, and Street Andrew

Eleven Social investment perspectives and practices: a decade in British politics1

Dobrowolsky Alexandra, and Jenson Jane

Part Three: New Labour

Twelve A rootless third way: a continental European perspective on New Labour’s welfare state, revisited

Clegg Daniel

Thirteen Welfare after Thatcherism: New Labour and social democratic politics

Driver Stephen

Fourteen A progressive consensus in the making?

Robinson Peter, and Stanley Kate

Fifteen New Labour’s family policy

Williams Fiona

End Matter

Index