The welfare we want?
Subtitle: the British challenge for American reform
By: edited by Robert Walker and Michael Wiseman.
Contributors: Walker, Robert, 1949-; Wiseman, Michael.
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Bristol, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: Public welfare -- Great Britain.; Public welfare -- United States.
Description: "The welfare we want? is an important addition to comparative literature in the field. It addesses a wide audience of policy makers, political analysts, social welfare experts, and concerned citizens on both sides of the Atlantic. Accessibility is enhanced by use of common categories for explaining how various programmes work, and for whom. Discussion of policy is at once historically detailed and up-to-date."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sharing ideas on welfare -- Robert Walker, Michael Wiseman; title: Welfare in the United States -- Michael Wiseman; title: The British perspective on reform : transfers from, and a lesson for, the US -- Alan Deacon; title: Eradicating child poverty in Britain : welfare reform and children since 1997 -- Mike Brewer, Paul Gregg; title: The art of persuasion? The British New Deal for lone parents -- Jane Millar; title: Beyond lone parents : extending welfare-to-work to disabled people and the young unemployed -- Bruce Stafford; title: Shaping a vision of US welfare -- Robert Walker, Michael Wiseman.