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Book SynopsisThis edition of Social Policy Review presents an extensive analysis of the coalition government's social policies. In an expanded first section, experts in a range of policy areas analyse the rationale behind, and implications of, government reforms, whilst the second section examines education policy in an international context. It is essential reading for social policy academics and students and for anyone who is interested in the implications of government policy.
Trade Review"Social Policy Review continues to offer a judicious and exciting mix of up-to-the-minute reflection on social policy developments both in the UK and internationally." Hartley Dean, London School of Economics
Table of ContentsPart one: Symposium on the Coalition Government ~ Chris Holden and Majella Kilkey (eds.); Conservatives social policy: From conviction to coalition ~ Hugh Bochel; Something old and blue or red, bold and new?: Welfare reform under the coalition government ~ Jay Wiggan; The Big Society: ~ Nick Ellison; The age of responsibility: social policy and citizenship in the early 21st century ~ Ruth Lister; Debating the 'Death Tax': The politics of inheritance tax in the UK ~ Rajiv Prabhakar; The necessary reform of public sector occupational pensions? ~ Edward Brunsdon and Margaret May; Welfare to Work and recession: From the New Deals to the Work Programme ~ Dan Finn; Lone mothers ~ Tina Haux; Child poverty: 2010 and beyond ~ Kitty Stewart; Health services ~ Nick Mays; Part two: Education in International context; Introduction ~ Gaby Ramia; Citizenship Education in International Perspective: Lessons from the UK and Overseas ~ Ben Kisby and James Sloam; "You're only going to get it if you really shout for it"? Education dispute resolution in the 21st Century in England ~ Neville Harris; A sin of omission: New Zealand's export education industry and foreign policy ~ Andrew Butcher and Terry McGrath; Student security in the global education market ~ Simon Marginson and Erlenawati Sawir; Exporting Policy: The growth of multi-national education businesses and new policy 'assemblages' ~ Stephen Ball.
