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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 UK and international perspective, while this year's themed section is 'New Labour'.
List of contents
Introduction - Martin Powell; Part One: Current services: Social security and welfare reform under New Labour - Peter A. Kemp; Education policy under New Labour: innovation or re-invention? - Rob Hulme with Moira Hulme; - Health policy - Rudolf Klein; Housing and housing policy in 2004 - Peter Malpass; Personal Social Services - Ann Netten; Part Two: Current issues: Governance and social policy in Northern Ireland: the devolution years - Eithne McLaughlin; At home abroad: the presidential election of 2004, the politics of American social policy and what European readers might make of these subjects - Theodore Marmor; - The future for health care in the UK: think-tanks and their policy prescriptions - Sally Ruane; Consumerism and the reform of public services: inequalities and instabilities - John Clarke, Nick Smith and Elizabeth Vidler; The challenges of measuring government output in the health care sector - Adriana Castelli, Diane Dawson, Hugh Gravelle and Andrew Street; Social investment perspectives and practices: a decade in British politics - Alexandra Dobrowolsky and Jane Jenson; Part Three: New Labour: A rootless third way: a continental European perspective on New Labour's welfare state, revisited - Daniel Clegg; Welfare after Thatcherism: New Labour and social democratic politics - Stephen Driver; A progressive consensus in the making? - Peter Robinson and Kate Stanley; Tensions in New Labour's policies for families - Fiona Williams.
Summary
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 UK and international perspective, while this year's themed section is 'New Labour'.
