Social Policy Review, 15 [electronic resource] : UK and International Perspectives
Bochel, Catherine.
Ellison, Nick.
Powell, Martin.
Bristol : Policy Press,
c2003.
Social Policy Review 15 continues the tradition of providing a different style and approach to policy issues from that found in most academic journals and books. This volume combines issues such as globalization, Europe and pensions with examination of the current and historical contexts of social policy.
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SOCIAL POLICY REVIEW 15; Contents; List of tables and figures; Notes on contributors; Introduction: the year in social policy; UK developments; International developments; Pensions, ageing and social policy; Part One: UK social policy; 1. Thinking historically about integration; Introduction; Explaining institutional expansion; Constructing the population; Outside the walls; Conclusion; 2. Invest and reform: spending review 2002 and its control regime; Introduction; Gordon Brown in the Treasury; The rhetoric of 'reform'; The evolution of the spending review structure
The development of the Treasury's own social policyThe spending record: the shift from social security to service increases; The evolution of public service agreements; What do PSAs look like?; PSAs and SDAs as political mechanisms; Problems of delivering spending increases; Conclusion; 3. Who choosing what?; Introduction; The evolution of the health consumer; Choice in health policy documents; The internal market; Policy after the internal market; Patient choice and consumerism; Conclusion; Part Two: International issues
4. Globalisation/welfare: what's the preposition? And, or, versus, with?Introduction; Globalisation or markets?; Welfare or social protection?; Social protection and markets; What was the post-war welfare state?; What went wrong with post-war social protection?; Conclusion; 5. Convergence in social welfare systems; Introduction; Convergence in social welfare systems and economic development; Convergence and law; Conclusion; 6. Analysing the health transition; Introduction; Theoretical debates on the health of nations and groups
Greek progress on health from independence to'democratic consolidation' in 1981Health and social welfare since 1981: the PASOK era; Conclusion; 7. Welfare reform in the United States; Introduction; Key federal welfare policy reforms; State policy responses; Implementation of welfare reform at the local level; Effects of welfare reform on families and children; Conclusion; 8. Social policy in the East Asian tiger economies: past, present and future; Introduction; Tiger societies and tiger social policy; Similarities and differences; Evaluating tiger social policy
Assessing the sustainability of the East Asian welfare modelConclusion; Part Three: In focus: Pensions and old age; 9. Adapting pension systems to labour market changes in western Europe; Introduction; Labour market changes and atypical workers; Pension systems and the new career profiles; Integrating the new career profiles in the existing pension systems; Conclusion; 10. Pensions choices for the 21st century; Introduction; Pension challenges: the demographic, economic and policy legacy of the 20th century; Desirable criteria for pension systems; Evaluating New Labour's pension settlement
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Social Policy Review 15 continues the tradition of providing a different style and approach to policy issues from that found in most academic journals and books. This volume combines issues such as globalization, Europe and pensions with examination of the current and historical contexts of social policy.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
European Union countries -- Social policy.
Mental Health Services -- Great Britain.
Welfare state.