The Student's Companion to Social Policy.

The Student's Companion to Social Policy -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: Concepts and Approaches -- 1: What is Social Policy? -- The Subject of Social Policy -- The Development of Social Policy -- The Welfare State and the Welfare Consensus -- Theoretical Pluralism -- The New Left -- The New Right -- New social movements -- The new pragmatism -- Public austerity -- Emerging Issues: the Future of Social Policy -- Guide to Further Sources -- Review and Assignment Questions -- 2: Researching Social Policy -- Why We Need Research -- Approaches, Methods and Designs -- Evidence-based Policy and Evaluation -- Emerging Issues -- Guide to Further Sources -- Review and Assignment Questions -- 3: Social Needs, Social Problems, Social Welfare and Well-being -- What is Social Welfare? -- What are Social Needs? -- What is a Social Problem? -- Conclusion -- Emerging Issues: from Needs to Well-being -- Guide to Further Sources -- Review and Assignment Questions -- 4: Equality, Rights and Social Justice -- Meanings and Definitions -- Equality -- Rights -- Social justice -- Equality, Rights and Justice as Ideology -- Equality -- Rights -- Social justice -- Emerging Issues -- Guide to Further Sources -- Review and Assignment Questions -- 5: Human Rights and Equality -- Historical Context -- Human rights -- Equalities -- Development of equality and human rights monitoring and enforcement bodies -- Conceptualising Human Rights and Equalities -- Human rights -- Equalities -- Human Rights and Equalities: Making Links -- Emerging Issues -- Guide to Further Sources -- Review and Assignment Questions -- 6: Efficiency, Equity and Choice -- Introduction -- Scarcity and Choice -- Efficiency -- Benefits of consumption -- Costs of production -- The efficient level of output -- Efficiency and effectiveness -- Efficiency versus Other Goals.

Equity -- Choice -- The Means of Delivering Efficiency and Choice -- Issues for Public Service Delivery -- Guide to Further Sources -- Review and Assignment Questions -- 7: Citizenship -- Defining Citizenship: Three Common Elements -- Rights, Responsibilities and Competing Visions of Citizenship -- The Importance of Social Rights for Citizenship -- Conditional and Constrained: Twenty-first-Century Social Citizenship -- Emerging Issues -- Guide to Further Sources -- Review and Assignment Questions -- 8: Changing Behaviour -- Introduction -- Changing Understandings of Behaviour -- Experimenting with Behaviour Change -- A Global Policy Movement -- Challenging Behavioural Government -- Conclusion -- Emerging Issues -- Guide to Further Sources -- Review and Assignment Questions -- Part II: Key Perspectives -- 9: Neo-Liberalism -- The Neo-Liberal Challenge -- From Classical Liberalism to Neo-Liberalism -- Late-Twentieth-Century Neo-Liberalism -- Neo-Liberalism and Welfare -- Neo-Liberalism and Welfare: A Critique -- Neo-Liberalism in the Twenty-first Century -- Guide to Further Sources -- Review and Assignment Questions -- 10: The Conservative Tradition -- Conservatism -- The Development of Conservative Ideas and Politics -- Conservatism and Social Reform -- Conservatism and Neo-Liberalism -- Searching for Direction -- Conservatism under David Cameron -- Emerging Issues -- Guide to Further Sources -- Review and Assignment Questions -- 11: Social Democracy -- Historic Roots -- What is Social Democracy? -- Social Democracy: The British Context -- Social Democratic Welfare States -- Sweden -- Emerging Issues: An Uncertain Future? -- Guide to Further Sources -- Review and Assignment Questions -- 12: The Socialist Perspective -- Socialism as Critique -- Essential tenets -- Instrumentalist critiques -- Structural-logical critiques -- Neo-Marxist critiques.

Socialism as Practice -- Gradualist socialism -- Revolutionary socialism -- The Death of Socialism? -- Class versus identity? -- Emerging Issues -- Guide to Further Sources -- Review and Assignment Questions -- 13: Feminist Perspectives -- Feminist Questions -- Women Workers and Carers -- Gender Relations and Masculinities -- Feminist Intersections -- Feminists in Public Policy and Activism -- Emerging Issues: Post-Feminism, Human Rights and the Impact of Austerity -- Guide to Further Sources -- Review and Assignment Questions -- 14: Social Movements -- What is a Social Movement? -- Social Movements and the Definition of Groups in Society -- Social Movements and the Emergence of Social Policy -- Analysing Social Movements and the Policy Process -- Emerging Issues -- Guide to Further Sources -- Review and Assignment Questions -- 15: Post-Modernist Perspectives -- Theories of the Post-Modern -- Post-Modernism and Social Policy -- Post-Structuralism -- Risk Society -- Emerging Issues -- Guide to Further Sources -- Review and Assignment Questions -- Part III: Historical Context -- 16: Nineteenth-Century Beginnings -- Poor Relief -- Public Services -- Emerging Issues -- Guide to Further Sources -- Review and Assignment Questions -- 17: The Liberal Era and the Growth of State Welfare -- Changing Socio-political Contexts -- The `Social Question´ and the Threat of Economic Decline -- The Social Question: Diagnostics and Analysis -- The Social Question: Politics and Reform -- Aftermath -- Guide to Further Sources -- Review and Assignment Questions -- 18: The Modern Welfare State, 1940-74 -- The Second World War: The Catalyst for Change? -- The Labour Governments and the Creation of the Welfare State, 1945-51 -- Modern `One Nation´ Conservatism and the Welfare State, 1951-64 -- Revisionist Labour and the Welfare State, 1964-70.

The Conservatives and the Welfare State, 1970-4 -- A Post-war Welfare Consensus or Settlement? -- Guide to Further Sources -- Review and Assignment Questions -- 19: Crisis, Retrenchment and the Impact of Neo-Liberalism,1976-97 -- Neo-Liberal Theory and Economic Crisis -- Neo-Liberal Programme -- Public spending cuts -- Privatisation -- Quasi-markets -- Funding higher education -- What was Wrong with the Neo-Liberal Diagnosis? -- Emerging Issues -- Guide to Further Sources -- Review and Assignment Questions -- 20: Modernisation and the Third Way -- Introduction -- The Essence of the Third Way -- The Third Way in Practice -- The New Labour Legacy -- Emerging Issues -- Guide to Further Reading -- Review and Assignment Questions -- 21: Austerity Politics -- Global Financial Crisis and `Austerity´ -- The Theory of Austerity -- Challenges to the Theoretical Basis of Austerity -- From Emergency Keynesianism to the Return of Neo-Liberalism -- The Austerity Narrative and the Legitimation of Welfare State Restructuring -- Emerging Issues -- Guide to Further Sources -- Review and Assignment Questions -- Part IV: Devolution and Social Policy in the United Kingdom -- 22: Social Policy and Devolution -- The Pattern of Devolution -- The Operation of the Devolved Administrations -- Spending Patterns within the United Kingdom -- The Pattern of Flexibility at the Devolved Level -- Emerging Issues: The Scottish Independence Referendum and Beyond -- Guide to Further Reading -- Review and Assignment Questions -- 23: Social Policy in Northern Ireland -- Introduction -- Funding and Spending on Social Policy in Northern Ireland -- Social Policy Priorities in Northern Ireland: Convergence and Divergence -- What Underpins Social Policy in Northern Ireland? -- Emerging Issues -- Guide to Further Sources -- Review and Assignment Questions -- 24: Social Policy in Scotland.

The 1998 Devolution Settlement in Scotland -- Policy Divergence Since 1998 -- Example 1: Health policy -- Example 2: Higher education finance -- Example 3: Personal care -- Social Policy in Scotland: The Settlement under Strain? -- The Scottish Independence Referendum: Debates and Outcomes -- Towards a New Settlement? -- Emerging Issues -- Guide to Further Resources -- Review and Assignment Questions -- 25: Social Policy in Wales -- Introduction -- Politics and Ideology -- Education and Skills -- Health and Social Care -- Housing and Homelessness -- Transport -- Equality and Human Rights -- Emerging Issues -- Guide to Further Sources -- Review and Assignment Questions -- Part V: Contemporary Context and Challenges -- 26: The Demographic Challenge -- Population Change -- A Century of Population Change in the UK -- An Ageing Population -- Migration -- An Increasingly Diverse Population -- Changing Patterns of Partnership and Family Formation -- Emerging Issues -- Guide to Further Sources -- Review and Assignment Questions -- 27: The Economic Context -- The Needs of People and the Needs of the `Economy´ -- The Promises and Pursuit of Economic Growth -- Taxation, Spending and Debt -- Emerging Issues: Crisis, Austerity and the `Burden´ of Public Spending -- Guide to Further Sources -- Review and Assignment Questions -- 28: The Sustainability Challenge -- Understanding Sustainability -- Ecological Challenges -- Social Challenges -- The economic -- The political -- The moral and cultural -- Social policy -- UK Government Policies -- Emerging Issues -- Guide to Further Sources -- Review and Assignment Questions -- 29: The Role of Religion -- Context -- Social Welfare in the Five Main World Religions -- Religion, Spirituality and the Study of Social Policy -- The UK Context -- Emerging Issues -- Guide to Further Sources -- Review and Assignment Questions.

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