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Partnerships between health and social services: developing a framework for evaluation
Authors: Glendinning Caroline 
Published: February 2003

English
Partnerships are a keystone of current policies to ‘modernise’ health and social services. This presents new challenges for research and evaluation. ‘Partnership’ is a vague concept, capable of many interpretations, and its evaluation is therefore problematic, not only for those involved in partnerships but for academics and others with a wider interest in public policy, its governance and mechanisms for delivering services. This article argues that a pluralistic approach to evaluation is appropriate. Drawing on examples of health and social services partnerships, the article sets out a number of key criteria against which new partnerships can be evaluated.
The NHS and social care: the final countdown?
Authors: Hudson Bob , Henwood Melanie 
Published: February 2003

English
The boundary between health and social care in England has been problematic throughout the postwar period. The 1997 Labour government put a specific emphasis on partnership working across these two policy areas and developed a coherent strategy for promoting the collaboration agenda. However, it has almost simultaneously turned against partnership working and in favour of restructuring as a way of securing integrated care. This has caused confusion and resentment in the field and is argued to be inconsistent with the complex requirements of governance and the management of ‘wicked issues’.
Partnership in health and social care: the implications of government guidance in the 1990s in England, with particular reference to voluntary organisations
Authors: Wyatt Martin 
Published: February 2003

English
British government guidance to its local agents in England has increasingly urged them into partnerships. This study examines Department of Health papers and circulars on partnership during the 1990s, commenting from the perspective of the voluntary organisations affected by this trend, and making comparisons with other government departments. The examination shows an insistence on collaboration between local authorities and the National Health Service, an inconsistent approach to partnership with voluntary organisations, and a very one-sided view of partnership. The main results are an emphasis on planning at the expense of diversity, and an indirect extension of government influence.
Devolution and drugs: the case for Welsh autonomy
Authors: Kay Adrian 
Published: February 2003

English
The regulation of drug prices is an excellent example of the type of tensions that are emerging in the UK’s new system of multi-level governance. Both the benefits and regulatory burden of the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme (PPRS) are regionally concentrated. However, those regional concentrations are not coterminous. The PPRS as an industrial policy supports jobs primarily in the south east and east of England. However, Wales (along with Scotland and Northern Ireland) bears a relatively greater share of the regulatory burden of the PPRS by virtue of prescribing more medicines. The potential for Welsh autonomy in this area is considered in terms of economic, administrative and political constraints.
Regulatory problems in the public sector: theories and cases
Authors: Ashworth Rachel , Boyne George A. , Walker Richard M. 
Published: February 2003

English
We develop a framework for assessing the extent of regulatory problems, and propose three hypotheses on the reasons for variations in these problems across the public sector. Five theoretical regulatory problems are identified: regulatee resistance, ritualistic compliance, regulatory capture, performance ambiguity and gaps in data. Our case study evidence on organisations in Wales suggests that regulatory capture and performance ambiguity are the most pronounced problems, and are more prevalent in local than in national services. Regulatory problems are negatively associated with the number of regulatory mechanisms, but are not related to the publicness or professionalisation of the organisations under regulation.
A flexible gateway to employment? Disabled people and the Employment Service’s Work Preparation Programme in Scotland
Authors: Riddell Sheila , Banks Pauline , Wilson Alastair 
Published: February 2003

English
Over the last two decades, employment policy for disabled people has been dominated by supply-side measures. This article begins with a brief discussion of the historical background to employment policy for disabled people, focusing in particular on job rehabilitation/Work Preparation policies and programmes. The nature and outcomes of the Employment Service’s Work Preparation Programme in Scotland are discussed, drawing on DfEE-funded research. The article concludes that, as a predominantly supply-side measure geared to fitting disabled people into the labour market with relatively little support, the Work Preparation Programme is achieving only modest gains. Particular groups of disabled people, for instance those with mental health problems, have fewer opportunities to participate and poorer outcomes. Better outcomes might be achieved if additional and ongoing support for disabled people with higher support needs were available.
Equity and the politics of taxation in Japan
Authors: DeWit Andrew 
Published: February 2003

English
Contemporary Japan confronts its worst fiscal crisis of the past 50 years. The limits of relying on public debt appear to have been reached, and thus tax increases are returning to the policy-making agenda. But the increases will largely be shaped by the argument that Japan’s tax system is too redistributive. Indeed, fiscal policy makers and the political process are already shifting more of the tax burden onto low-income earners. This article refutes the claim that Japan’s income tax is particularly redistributive, and places the Japanese example in the larger context of globalisation and regressive income tax reforms.
The social economy and the state: linking ambitions with institutions in Québec, Canada
Authors: Graefe Peter 
Published: February 2003

English
In rapidly developing policy fields such as that of the social economy, institutions play a central role in delimiting the range of the possible. This article suggests that social democratic policy analysts have given too much attention to the financial and operational autonomy of social economy organisations from the state, and have avoided specifying what sort of new state institutions might allow these organisations to reach their progressive ambitions. The experience of Québec, Canada, is used to illustrate how, in the absence of this institutional programme, existing centres of state power can deflect the social economy in a neoliberal direction.
The National Economic and Social Forum, social partnership and policy formulation in the Republic of Ireland
Authors: McCashin Anthony , O’Sullivan Eoin , Brennan Catherine 
Published: February 2003

English
Evaluating policy campaigning by the third sector is difficult and to date little has been written about it in the Irish context. The National Economic and Social Forum (NESF), established by the Irish government in 1993 to ‘develop economic and social policy initiatives’, provides a useful natural experiment to explore more fully the role of the third sector in shaping public policy. The article aims to explore the internal and external dynamics of third sector participation in public policy making within the context of the NESF, in addition to contributing to existing literature in this area.
Bringing difference into deliberation? Disabled people, survivors and local governance
Authors: Barnes Marian 
Published: February 2003

English
This article discusses the rules of the game in participatory democracy and the engagement of disabled people and mental health service users/survivors in the process. Drawing on theories of new social movements and of deliberative democracy, the article considers how notions of ‘legitimate participants’ are constructed within official discourse, and how those can be challenged by autonomous groups of disabled people. It also explores assumptions about appropriate forms of deliberation within participation forums and how an appeal to rational debate can exclude the emotional content of the experience of living with mental health problems from deliberation about mental health policy. The argument is illustrated by reference to research conducted by the author, and by a Canadian study of user/survivor involvement in policy making.
The politics of self-advocacy and people with learning difficulties
Authors: Armstrong Derrick 
Published: February 2003

English
This article draws on an ESRC-funded study of self-advocacy to provide a critical commentary on the politics of self-advocacy for people with learning difficulties. The article argues that in considering ‘self-advocacy’ as a policy option through which the citizenship of people with learning difficulties can be asserted, it is necessary to start from an understanding of how ‘learning difficulties’ are themselves socially constructed as a label for managing and controlling a ‘troublesome’ minority. For this reason, significant difficulties are encountered by people with learning difficulties in their attempts to advance their civil rights through self-advocacy. This is particularly so where self-advocacy is represented as part of a policy agenda for ‘empowerment’ within service settings.
Making the ends meet: do carers and disabled people have a common agenda?
Authors: Parker Gillian , Clarke Harriet 
Published: February 2003

English
Community care policy has, simultaneously, attempted to reduce institutional care, contain costs, and emphasise individual and family responsibility for personal welfare. As a result, disabled people often have no choice about relying on informal carers for the support that enables them to live in their own homes. The implications of New Labour’s emphasis on “work for those who can, security for those who can’t” and of third way emphasis on obligations are explored for carers and disabled people. Both stand to lose from these emphases. Joint campaigning, informed by a common theoretical model, may have more to offer than separatism.
Whose voices? Representing the claims of older disabled people under New Labour
Authors: Priestley Mark 
Published: February 2003

English
Although the majority of Britain’s disabled people are also older people, there has been relatively little exchange between policy making in the areas of disability and old age. This article highlights some significant similarities and differences in the social claims made by groups representing older people and disabled people in policy debates under New Labour. Using recent policy examples, the analysis focuses on the claims being made by older and disabled people and the discourses, representations and strategies used to make them. The article suggests that there are considerable areas of common ground on which political alliances and common voice could be built, but there is also evidence of a tactical or discursive distancing between the two groups. These difficulties are interpreted with reference to the centrality of independence and paid employment within policy debates under New Labour.
Disabled people, voluntary organisations and participation in policy making
Authors: Drake Robert F. 
Published: February 2003

English
This article focuses on the involvement of disabled people and voluntary organisations in the deliberative processes of governmental policy creation. In recent times traditional disability charities have enjoyed significant access to government and have asserted the legitimacy of their participation on the basis of representing a constituency comprising disabled people and carers. However, many disabled people have declared their preference for self-representation and have rejected the interposition of the traditional disability charities between themselves and government. The purpose here is to document the barriers that continue to obstruct disabled people’s access to policy making, including the potential conflict between the aims of minority groups and the rule of majority mandate.
Mental health service users and disability: implications for future strategies
Authors: Beresford Peter , Harrison Chris , Wilson Anne 
Published: February 2003

English
Mental health service users/survivors are subject to both mental health and disability policies, yet there appears to be an ambiguity in the approach of disability policy and disability politics to them. Mental health policy, which has always had powers to restrict their rights, is now increasingly associating mental health service users/survivors with ‘dangerousness’ and focusing on them as a threat to ‘public safety’. Mental health service users’/survivors’ organisations, which have so far tended to focus their activities on mental health policy and partnership approaches to making change, are now beginning to look to disability policy and politics to develop their thinking and activities for the future, while retaining their own distinct and independent identity. This has important implications for disability studies, policy and politics, and highlights the importance of addressing issues relating to mental health service users/survivors fully and equally.
Policy, politics and the silencing of ‘voice’
Authors: Scott-Hill Mairian 
Published: February 2003

English
Given that socio-political understandings of disability have not impacted on legal discourse, this article asks two questions. First, why suggest a substantive solution, especially one that is framed by rights discourse, to ‘the problem’ of disabled people’s oppression? Second, how do perceptions of struggle, representation and participation in disability politics influence the way in which it engages with matters of policy? The article suggests that both questions ultimately concern discourse in situations where struggle and contest are highlighted. It argues that, in the search for solutions to social oppression, disabled people would gain much from developing a deeper understanding of ‘relational politics’ that moves beyond perceptions of disability as power and dominance.
Parents, professionals and special educational needs policy frameworks in England and Scotland
Authors: Riddell Sheila , Wilson Alastair , Adler Michael , Mordaunt Enid 
Published: February 2003

English
The research reported in this article investigates the extent to which parents of children with special educational needs (SEN) were involved in the process of assessment and recording (Scotland) or statementing (England) as active citizens, or whether they continued to occupy the passive role of service client. This article analyses competing SEN policy frameworks in England and Scotland, and explores the position of parents and professionals. We conclude that, while the English system allows parents greater power to exercise rights, they are not always willing or able to adopt the role of active citizens. Conversely, while Scottish parents have fewer opportunities to engage actively with the process, some parents are able to take an active role. While national systems differ in terms of the policy frameworks they reflect, there is considerable leeway for parents and professionals to reinforce or undermine the broad thrust of centralised policy.
Reformulating activism, reformulating the activist
Authors: Clark Wayne , Khan Usman , McLaverty Peter 
Published: February 2003

English
Although the past decade has seen an upsurge of interest in ideas of public participation and democratisation, relatively little is known about the nature of voluntary activism. This article draws on interview data collected within the Labour Party, Amnesty International, tenants’ and residents’ associations, and the Exodus collective in order to examine the nature of voluntary participation within the UK. Using the work of Habermas and theorists of social capital, we argue that the data calls into question the potential within civil society for the development of deliberative tendencies.
Research on the voluntary sector: an overview
Authors: Halfpenny Peter , Reid Margaret 
Published: February 2003

English
This article provides an overview of the growing body of research on the UK voluntary sector, organised around five general themes: the organisational composition of the sector; the resources it commands; explanations for the existence of the sector;accounts of differences between the voluntary, private and public sectors; and the nature and impact of inter-sectoral relationships. While substantial progress has been made over the past twenty years in describing and explaining aspects of the sector, concentration on the larger, more formal organisations has left gaps in our understanding of small, local voluntary activity.
Toward a self-regulatory form of accountability in the voluntary sector
Authors: Miller Chris 
Published: February 2003

English
Non-profit organisations are private self-regulating bodies. As their social welfare role expands so the need for greater public transparency and accountability increases. This article concentrates on the relationship between the sector and those stakeholders, beyond government and funding bodies, that are without formal levers of power. It draws upon three Ontario-based case studies that have experienced considerable change and share a strong commitment to self-regulatory accountability to their multiple stakeholders. It illustrates both the importance of particular organisational features and the immense difficulty and complexity of implementing the practice.
Enhanced legitimacy for local authority decision making: challenges, setbacks and innovation
Authors: Cheyne Christine , Comrie Margie 
Published: February 2003

English
Traditional forms of participation and consultation have been widely criticised as limited, but there is also resistance to expanding citizen involvement in decision making. This raises the question of how to achieve democratic legitimacy. New Zealand’s government is encouraging innovative deliberative techniques, including citizens’ juries, in local authority decision making. One very contentious experiment has dampened New Zealand’s enthusiasm for citizens’ juries. This article reviews that experience and makes some comparisons with Britain. It also reviews another initiative: a tribunal deciding whether to continue fluoridation of a municipal water supply. Finally, the article considers prospects for fostering more effective citizen engagement in community decisions in New Zealand.
LETS in a cold climate: Green Dollars, self-help and neoliberal welfare in New Zealand
Authors: North Peter 
Published: February 2003

English
Complementary currencies have emerged as social policy tools in a number of countries in the last 15 years. This article examines the performance of Green Dollar Exchanges in New Zealand/Aotearoa in a neoliberal environment where fiscal ‘imperatives’ led to state provision of welfare being curtailed in favour of delivery by organisations within civil society through self-help. It argues that, while self-help does have a place within overall welfare provision, voluntary mechanisms failed to fill the gap left by state withdrawal. Consequently, an over-optimistic perspective of the contribution of mutual aid organisations in meeting welfare needs as an alternative to, rather than complementary to, state provision is problematic.
The ‘excluded consumer’: a neglected aspect of social exclusion?
Authors: Williams Colin C. , Windebank Jan 
Published: February 2003

English
This article investigates social exclusion in relation to consumption. To do this, we introduce the notion of the ‘excluded consumer’. In order to understand who defines themselves as excluded from normal consumption practices, and how, the results of interviews with 400 households in lower income UK urban neighbourhoods are reported. This reveals that households view themselves as excluded from mainstream consumption practices not only when they cannot afford to acquire goods but also when they are reliant on alternative retail channels (eg car boot sales, second-hand shops) to obtain them. We conclude by arguing that policy initiatives are required to aid these excluded consumers.
Digitising the structures of government: the UK’s information age government agenda
Authors: Hudson John 
Published: February 2003

English
Since its election the UK Blair government has initiated a radical programme to redesign the apparatus of government through the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). However, unpacking the operational implications of this ‘e-government’ strategy is a far from easy task and numerous policy dilemmas of considerable significance for the future of governance have arisen. This article considers the broad policy questions raised by the information age government agenda, the implications for delivery mechanisms of the government’s current strategy and issues surrounding access, exclusion and equity that are likely to be of increasing significance as their digitisation programme gathers pace.
Delivering devolved approaches to local governance
Authors: Pearce Graham , Mawson John 
Published: February 2003

English
Community involvement has long been associated with measures to tackle the problems of deprived neighbourhoods, but government policies for modernising government and promoting democratic renewal have focused on the need to broaden citizen engagement and devolve decision making to local communities. Encouraging people to do things for themselves can be seen as a ‘good’ thing, but whether this participatory form of government can be achieved in England is uncertain. This article explores the rationale underpinning New Labour’s commitment to devolved local governance and the challenges this brings for central government. We investigate the choices and the organisational and management implications for local authorities. We conclude by examining the inherent ambiguities in government policy, which need to be resolved if devolved solutions are to be implemented effectively.
At the margins of provision: domestic violence, policing and community safety
Authors: Hall Tina , Whyte Dave 
Published: February 2003

English
Despite a series of initiatives launched by New Labour aimed at tackling the problem of violence against women, it is likely that the impact of these initiatives will be minimal. This article argues that, on the one hand, this is a result of the failure of ‘community safety’ as a political discourse to present a challenge to traditional law and order agendas. On the other hand, it is a result of the state’s continuing reluctance to move beyond the use of police forces in strategies to combat violence against women. This article discusses these aspects of national and local government interventions in the context of domestic violence prevention in two local authority areas of Merseyside. It then concludes with a discussion of some alternatives to current criminal justice responses.
Advocacy coalitions and the politics of welfare in Korea after the economic crisis
Authors: Kwon Huck-Ju 
Published: February 2003

English
This article seeks to explain the politics of social policy in Korea after the economic crisis of 1997/98, focusing on the advocacy coalitions. It shows that the welfare idealists were able to succeed in introducing the Minimum Living Standard Guarantee (MLSG) by seizing a number of strategic points of decision making in Korea, explaining why Korea adopted active social policy initiatives beyond the functional requirements of the structural adjustment. The introduction of MLSG, which recognises the right of every citizen to a decent living, means that social protection has become an integral social policy goal in Korea.