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Book SynopsisBringing together the voices of leading experts in the field, this edition offers an up-to-date and diverse review of the best in social policy scholarship over the past year.
Trade Review“Keeping up with developments in policy and politics is always a challenge. This excellent collection provides updates and analyses across a range of key areas. As always, this is an essential read.” Jane Millar, University of Bath
Table of ContentsPart One: A decade of social policy since the crisis – looking back and forward ~ Elke Heins The English National Health Service in a cold climate: a decade of austerity ~ Martin Powell Disability and austerity: the perfect storm of attacks on social rights ~ Kirstein Rummery Financialisation and social protection? The UK’s path towards a socially protective public–private pension system ~ Paul Bridgen Towards a whole-economy approach to the welfare state: citizens, corporations and the state within the broad welfare mix ~ Kevin Farnsworth From welfare state to participation society: austerity, ideology or rhetoric? ~ Menno Fenger and Babs Broekema Part Two: Developments in social policy and contributions from the Social Policy Association Conference 2018 ~ James Rees and Catherine Needham From the Windrush Generation to the ‘Air Jamaica generation’: local authority support for families with no recourse to public funds ~ Andy Jolly Alt-Right ‘cultural purity’, ideology and mainstream social policy discourse: towards a political anthropology of ‘mainstremeist’ ideology ~ Julia Lux and John David Jordan The moving frontier and beyond: the third sector and social policy ~ Rob Macmillan and Jeremy Kendall Local variations in implementing energy-efficiency policy: how third sector organisations influenced cities’ responses to the Green Deal ~ Rebecca Ince Is the ‘lump of labour’ a self-evident fallacy? The case of Great Britain ~ Jacques Wels and John Macnicol Family as a socio-economic actor in the political economy of welfare ~ Theodoros Papadopoulos and Antonios Roumpakis
