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Over the past twenty years the British State has undergone fundamental transformations in most areas of public policy, particularly those associated with social policy - welfare, health, education, and law and order. The purpose of this book is to develop and use a model of policy transfer to illustrate how many of the recent changes in British public policy can be traced directly to the process of policy transfer, particularly policy transfer between the United States and Britain.
It introduces and illustrates the concept of policy transfer through a selection of case studies, demonstrating its role in the development of particular policy areas, each of which involve different processes, actors and implications. At the same time, each case study also reveals the serious problems in adapting 'foreign' models to their new settings.
Policy Transfer and British Social Policy argues the wider usefulness of the concept of policy transfer in the analysis of policy and institutional development; its analysis and case studies will be invaluable to students and scholars in the fields of public policy, social policy, comparative politics and developmental studies.
List of contents
Introduction
a new face to British public policy
Policy transfer
a new framework of policy analysis
Welfare
the child support agency
Health
the internal market and reform of the National Health Service
Education
post-compulsory education in England and Wales
Law and order
the electronic monitoring of offenders
Conclusion
where to go from here?
Notes
References
Index.
About the author
David P. Dolowitz is a Lecturer of Public and Social Policy at the University of Liverpool. His current research interests include how political systems influence each other, particularly in relation to the development of welfare-to-work and workfare programmes.
Rob Hulme is Senior Lecturer in Education Policy at the University of Central Lancashire.
Mike Nellis is a Lecturer in Probation Studies at the University of Birmingham.
Fiona O'Neal is completing her doctoral thesis about the politics of the nursing profession at the University of Birmingham.
Summary
The British State has undergone fundamental transformations in areas of public policy, those associated with social policy - welfare, health, education, and law and order. This book develops and uses a model of policy transfer to illustrate how many of the changes in British public policy can be traced directly to the process of policy transfer.
