Social Policy Review 24

Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2012

Kilkey, Majella, Ramia, Gaby

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9781447304470
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781447304487
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Social Policy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This edition of Social Policy Review marks the 40th anniversary of a publication from the UK Social Policy Association devoted to presenting an up-to-date and diverse review of the best in social policy scholarship. It includes a special Anniversary Preface celebrating the publication's evolution and distinctive contributions. Continuing its reputation as a cutting edge, international publication in social policy, Part One of this edition analyses current developments under the UK's Coalition Government across a range of key policy areas. Part Two includes an examination of social policy in 'developing' countries, including in Africa and the Arab nations. Part Three considers the fate of social welfare in countries among the worst hit by the 'economic crisis', including: Ireland, Greece, Spain, Portugal and Iceland. Social Policy Review is essential reading for social policy academics and students and for anyone who is interested in the implications of government policy.

Table of contents

• Social Policy Review 24
• Contents
• List of tables and figures
• Notes on contributors
• 40th anniversary preface
• Introduction
• 1. Universal Credit: overview and gender implications
• 2. Family support and the Coalition: retrenchment, refocusing and restructuring
• 3. Housing, the welfare state and the Coalition government
• 4. The 2012/13 reforms of higher education in England: changing student finances and funding
• 5. Division and opposition: the Health and Social Care Bill 2011
• 6. Immigrant-targeted activation policies: a comparison of the approaches in the Scandinavian welfare states
• 7. Welfare retrenchment under Left and Right government leadership: towards a consolidated framework of analysis?
• 8. From black hole to spring: the coming of age of social policy in the Arab countries?
• 9. China’s developmental model in Africa: a new era for global social policy?
• 10. The Greek welfare state in the age of austerity: anti-social policy and the politico-economic crisis
• 11. From opportunity to austerity: crisis and social policy in Spain
• 12. From financial crisis to welfare retrenchment: assessing the challenges to the Irish welfare state
• 13. The Great Recession and US social policy: from expansion to austerity
• 14. Seeking refuge in the Nordic model: social policy in Iceland after 2008
• Index