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Author : Powell, Martin
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1847420397
This book, the third in Martin Powell's New Labour trilogy, analyses the legacy of Tony Blair's government for social policy, focusing on the extent to which it has changed the UK welfare state.
Author : Powell, Martin
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447315421
Tony Blair was the longest serving Labour Prime Minister in British history. This book, the third in a trilogy of books on New Labour edited by Martin Powell, analyses the legacy of his government for social policy, focusing on the extent to which it has changed the UK welfare state. Drawing on both conceptual and empirical evidence, the book offers forward-looking speculation on emerging and future welfare issues. The book's high-profile contributors examine the content and extent of change. They explore which of the elements of modernisation matter for their area. Which sectors saw the greatest degree of change? Do terms such as 'modern welfare state' or 'social investment state' have any resonance? They also examine change over time with reference to the terms of the government. Was reform a fairly continuous event, or was it concentrated in certain periods? Finally, the contributors give an assessment of likely policy direction under a future Labour or Conservative government. Previous books in the trilogy are New Labour, new welfare state? (1999) and Evaluating New Labour's welfare reforms (2002) (see below). The works should be read by academics, undergraduates and post-graduates on courses in social policy, public policy and political science.
Author : Tom Burdon,Charlie Cooper,Steph Petrie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351734271
This title was first published in 2000: The 1997 election marked the prospect of a new era in social welfare - the possibility of establishing a third phase in the post-war history of the welfare state (the first being the creation of the Keynesian welfare state, the second the Thatcher/Major neo-liberal reforms). The key aim of this book is to critically explore the options for the future of welfare under New Labour. The welfare state that the government inherited from the Conservatives is widely believed to be in a critical condition. At the same time, there is evidence of widening social inequality in Britain which existing social policy measures fail to address. Whilst acknowledging that future welfare strategies are likely to operate within a market paradigm, the key argument of this book is that welfare providers should operate within a more accountable and democratic environment where service-users have the right to participate in decision-making processes affecting their welfare - regardless of the ability to pay. The book concludes that the dominant discourse shaping social policy in Britain must be recognized and should not be accepted uncritically and that there are very real economic (as well as social) benefits from taking measures to address social disadvantage.
Author : Powell, Martin
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781847420404
This timely book explores how changing territorial politics are impacting on social citizenship rights across the UK.
Author : Powell, Martin
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999-06-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781847424983
The New Labour government elected in May 1997 claimed that it would modernise the welfare state, by rejecting the solutions of both the Old Left and the New Right. New Labour, new welfare state? provides the first comprehensive examination of the social policy of New Labour; compares and contrasts current policy areas with both the Old Left and the New Right and applies the concept of the 'third way' to individual policy areas and to broader themes which cut across policy areas. The contributors provide a comprehensive account of developments in the main policy areas and in the themes of citizenship and accountability, placing these within a wider framework of the 'third way'. They find a complex picture. Although the exact shape of the new welfare state is difficult to detect, it is clear that there have been major changes in areas such as citizenship, the mixed economy of welfare, the centrality of work in an active welfare state, and the appearance of new elements such as joined up government at the centre and new partnerships of governance at the periphery. New Labour, new welfare state? provides topical information on the debate on the future of the welfare state and is essential reading for students and researchers in social policy, politics and sociology.
Author : Edward D. Berkowitz,Kim McQuaid
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Case studies
ISBN : 0275904539
Creating the Welfare State investigates how private business and public bureaucracy worked together to create the structure of much of the modern welfare state in America. Covering the period from the 1980s to the present, this important volume employs interdisciplinary techniques to demonstrate how politics, economics, law, and social theory merged over the course of a century of policy formulation and implementation. The authors also draw upon previously unconsulted sources from government warehouses and archives to analyze the operation of early federal social welfare programs such as vocational rehabilitation. Their discussions range from those early programs to modern ones such as cost of living pay adjustments and social security disability benefits. This emphasis on the notion of the continuing development of welfare programs is a significant factor in the welfare state controversies--a factor often ignored by other historians and writers.
Author : Silja Häusermann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139485906
This book challenges existing theories of welfare state change by analyzing pension reforms in France, Germany, and Switzerland between 1970 and 2004. It explains why all three countries were able to adopt far-reaching reforms, adapting their pension regimes to both financial austerity and new social risks. In a radical departure from the neo-institutionalist emphasis on policy stability, the book argues that socio-structural change has led to a multidimensional pension reform agenda. A variety of cross-cutting lines of political conflict, emerging from the transition to a post-industrial economy, allowed governments to engage in strategies of political exchange and coalition-building, fostering broad cross-class coalitions in support of major reform packages. Methodologically, the book proposes a novel strategy to analyze lines of conflict, configurations of political actors, and coalitional dynamics over time. This strategy combines quantitative analyses of actor configurations based on coded policy positions with in-depth case studies.
Author : Paul Pierson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001-04-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191522918
The welfare states of the affluent democracies now stand at the centre of political discussion and social conflict. In these path-breaking essays, an international team of leading analysts rejects simplistic claims about the impact of economic 'globalization'. Economic, demographic, and social pressures on the welfare state are very real, but many of the most fundamental challenges have little to do with globalization. Nor do the authors detect signs of a convergence of national social policies towards an American-style lowest common denominator. The contemporary politics of the welfare state takes shape against a backdrop of both intense pressures for austerity and enduring popularity. Thus in most of the affluent democracies, the politics of social policy centre on the renegotiation, restructuring, and modernization of the post-war social contract rather than its dismantling. The authors examine a wide range of countries and public policies arenas, including health care, pensions, and labour markets. They demonstrate how different national settings affect whether, and on what terms, centrist efforts to restructure the welfare state can succeed.
Author : Gøsta Esping-Andersen,Duncan Gallie,Anton Hemerijck,John Myles
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002-08-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191608315
Leading scholars in the field examine the highly topical issue of the future of the welfare state in Europe. They argue that welfare states need to adjust, and examine which kind of welfare architecture will further Europe's stated goal of maximum social inclusion and justice. The volume concentrates on four principal social policy domains; the aged and transition to retirement; the welfare issues related to profound changes in working life; the new risks and needs that arise in households and, especially, in child families; and the challenges of creating gender equality. The volume aims to promote a better understanding of the key welfare issues that will have to be faced in the coming decades. It also warns against the all-too-frequent recourse to patent policy solutions that have all to often characterized contemporary debate. It intends to move the policy debate from it often frustrating vague and generic level towards greater specificity and nuance.
Author : Ramesh Mishra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317867258
First published in 1991. The Welfare State in Capitalist Society, uses a methodological approach that draws extensively on comparative material. It presents an analysis of the fortunes of the modern welfare state in conditions of economic and ideological adversity is able to generate propositions of significance; sweeping masterfully over developments on three continents, it distilling a multiplicity of discrete domestic events into a coherent, comprehensible account.
Author : Victor George,Robert M. Page
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Public welfare
ISBN : UOM:39076001647739
An analysis of the life and work of the key thinkers on welfare in the past 50 years, set in the context of current debates on the role of the state in welfare provision and changing economic circumstances.
Author : Harris, John,White, Vicky
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1847420052
This title's three sections cover the main issues of the modernization agenda, making it ideal for teaching. It also locates the issues in their theoretical, historical and policy contexts which meets the needs of student readers.
Author : Bent Greve
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317643944
The welfare state plays a key role in people’s everyday lives in developed societies. At the same time, the welfare state is contested and there are constant discussions on how and to what degree the state should intervene, influence and have an impact on the development of society. Recent years have seen an accelerated transformation of the welfare state in the light of the global financial crisis, demographic change and changes in the perception of the state’s role in relation to social welfare. This raises fundamentally new issues related to social policy and welfare state analysis. This book provides: an introduction to the principles of welfare a conceptual framework necessary for understanding social policy at the macro-level a comparative approach to welfare states globally an overview of new ways to organise and steer welfare states an introduction to welfare state politics and underlying economic framework an account of equality and inequality in modern societies new directions for welfare states The book’s focus on core concepts and the variety of international welfare state regimes and mechanisms for delivering social policy provides a much needed introduction to the rapidly changing concept of welfare for students on social policy, social studies, sociology and politics courses.
Author : Neil Gilbert
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780195176575
Same time, the glaring systemic deficiencies of extant welfare systems-and the psychological toll of welfare dependency--became increasingly apparent, even to welfare's supporters.
Author : Robert R. Friedmann,Neil Gilbert,Moshe Sherer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015014719036