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Social policy in Britain / by Pete Alcock ; with Margaret May.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alcock, Peter, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain--Social policy.
- Great Britain.
- Social policy.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 335 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- Fourth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Summary:
- Making a complex subject very approachable, this is an essential resource for any student needing to understand social policy in Britain today.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: The Development of Social Policy 1
- What is social policy? 2
- Fabianism and the roots of social welfare 3
- The welfare state 5
- The New Left 7
- The New Right 8
- The Third Way and the Big Society 9
- Comparative perspectives 11
- The welfare mix 13
- Part 1 Structures and Contexts 15
- 2 The State 17
- The welfare state 17
- What is the state? 20
- The functions of the state 23
- The limits of the state 25
- 3 The Market 29
- The commercial sector 29
- The case for markets 31
- The market and the state 32
- Forms of commercial welfare 34
- Marketization 36
- Problems with markets 38
- 4 The Third Sector 40
- Defining the third sector 40
- Organization and funding 43
- The structure of the sector 46
- The history of voluntary activity 48
- The new policy environment 49
- Contradictions and challenges 51
- 5 Informal Welfare 54
- The importance of informal provision 54
- What is informal care? 55
- The development of informal care 57
- Supporting informal care 59
- 6 Devolution and Control 64
- Devolution of policy-making 64
- The central-local dimension 68
- The development of local government 70
- Local authority structures and powers 75
- Local governance and the enabling authority 77
- Centralism or localism? 79
- 7 International and European Influences 83
- The global context 83
- Welfare regimes and policy transfer 85
- Social policy in Europe 87
- The development of the EU 91
- The institutions of the EU 94
- European social programmes 97
- Britain in the EU 98
- Part 2 Key Policy Areas 101
- 8 Social Security 103
- What is social security? 103
- Organization and administration 105
- Principles 108
- The development of social security 110
- Entitlement to support 112
- Problems with benefits 117
- Recent policy development 119
- 9 Health 122
- Health and illness 122
- Health needs 123
- The development of the National Health Service 125
- A patient-led health service 127
- Raising standards, involving users 132
- Promoting health and wellbeing 134
- Paying for health services 137
- 10 Housing 142
- Houses or homes? 142
- Supply and demand 145
- Paying for housing 146
- Housing policy in the twentieth century 150
- Recent housing policy 152
- Housing provision 154
- Homelessness 161
- 11 Social Care Services 164
- What is social care? 164
- The structure of care services 165
- The development of care services 169
- Children's services 171
- Adult services 175
- Funding adult care 181
- 12 Education 184
- What is education? 184
- The structure of provision 186
- Education in schools and early years provision 191
- Further and continuing education 196
- Higher education 197
- Equality and selectivity in education 199
- Standards and performance management 201
- Ancillary services 202
- 13 Employment 204
- Developing employment policy 204
- Policy context 205
- Labour markets 210
- Welfare to work 211
- Employment protection 217
- Part 3 Theories and Debates 221
- 14 Ideologies of Welfare 223
- Ideology 223
- Theory and politics 225
- Neoliberalism 227
- The Middle Way 230
- Social democracy 231
- Marxism 234
- New social movements 236
- Postmodernism 237
- 15 Economic Development 240
- The economic context 241
- Capitalism 242
- Classical economics 243
- Keynesianism 244
- The collapse of Keynesianism 246
- Monetarism 248
- Supply-side economics 249
- Globalism and recession 251
- Stability and prudence 252
- The credit crunch 254
- Public austerity 256
- 16 Paying for Welfare 259
- The cost of welfare 259
- Public expenditure 261
- Sources of funding 265
- 17 Social Divisions 271
- A divided society 271
- Class 273
- Gender 275
- Race and ethnicity 278
- Age 280
- Disability 282
- 18 Delivering Welfare 286
- Access to welfare 286
- Whose welfare? 289
- New Public Management 291
- Audit and inspection 293
- Modernization and governance Opening up public services
- 19 The Future of Social Policy 301
- Past achievements 301
- Future prospects 303.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-329) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230346352
- 0230346359
- OCLC:
- 879329774
- Publisher Number:
- 99981803533
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