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Choice and public policy: the limits to welfare markets
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ISBN: 0333678206 0312212623 Year: 1998 Publisher: Basingstoke Macmillan

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The double crisis of the welfare state and what we can do about it
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ISBN: 9781137328106 9781137328113 9781137328120 113732810X 1299454577 1349460354 1137328118 Year: 2013 Publisher: Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan,

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The NHS, education, social care, local government, employment services, social housing and benefits for the poor face major challenges from a government determined to entrench a radical and divisive liberalism permanently in British public life. This book analyses the immediate challenges from headlong cuts that bear most heavily on women, families and the poor, and from a root-and-branch restructuring which will fragment and privatize the bulk of public services. It sets this in the context of escalating inequalities and the longer-term pressures from population ageing. It demonstrates that a more humane and generous welfare state that will build inclusiveness is possible by combining policies that limit child poverty, promote more equal outcomes from health care and education, introduce a greater contributory element into social benefits, invest in better child and elder care and address low wages and workplace rights. It analyses the political forces that can be marshalled to support these shifts and shows that, with political leadership, the welfare state can attract mass support.


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New paradigms in public policy
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ISBN: 9780197264935 019726493X Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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New Paradigms in Public Policy reviews some of the most challenging developments in British society as they are understood by policy-makers and by academics. The key point is that academic debates identify a range of ways in which issues can be understood and tackled, but policy is typically based on a narrow subset of possible approaches. This is illustrated by discussion of climate change, demographic shifts, the response to greater ethnic and religious diversity, the debate about community and local area politics, democratization, nudge, the international financial crisis, and the growth of popular disillusion with politics and politicians. These areas range across economic, social and political issues. Written by leading academics from the fields under discussion and drawing on the most recent research, this book will contribute to our understanding of governance and particularly of how the ideas that lead the policy agenda emerge and are reinforced. It will also be valuable in academic study of policy debate and help develop understanding of the policy issues which it examines.

New risks, new welfare : the transformation of the European welfare state
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ISBN: 019926726X 0199267278 1281906654 9786611906658 0191533033 9780199267262 9780199267279 Year: 2004 Publisher: Oxford: Oxford university press,

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This book introduces the concept of new social risks in welfare state studies and explains their relevance to the comparative understanding of social policy in Europe. New social risks arise from shifts in the balance of work and family life as a direct result of the declining importance of the male breadwinner family, changes in the labour market, and the impact of globalization on national policy-making. They differ from the old social risks of the standard industriallife-course, which were concerned primarily with interruptions to income from sickness, unemployment, retirement, and similar

Making a European Welfare State ? Convergences and conflicts over european social policy
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ISBN: 1405121165 9781405121163 Year: 2004 Publisher: Malden, Mass: Blackwell,

Ideas and welfare state reform in Western Europe
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ISBN: 9781403993175 1403993173 134954387X 9786613179401 0230286011 1283179407 Year: 2011 Publisher: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan,

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"The welfare state is a distinctively European invention, central to the success of Europe in balancing competitive capitalism with social inclusion. Social policies across Europe are now being transformed to meet the demands of globalisation, population ageing, changing labour markets and the new economic pressures from the European open market. This book analyses the ideas that lie behind the new policies. Based on more than two hundred and fifty interviews with senior politicians, civil servants, representatives of business and unions and other key policy actors in seven European countries and at the EU level, it explores how far a market-centred paradigm lies at the heart of the reforms and offers insights into the essential resilience of the European welfare state."--BOOK JACKET.

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