Synopses & Reviews
This 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.
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
Synopsis
This edition of Social Policy Review presents an extensive analysis of the coalition government's social policies and is essential reading for social policy academics and students and for anyone who is interested in the implications of government policy.
About the Author
Majella Kilkey is senior lecturer in social policy at the University of Sheffield.
Gaby Ramia is associate professor in the graduate school of government at the University of Sydney and coauthor of From Rights to Management.
Table of Contents
Part 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