Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of tables and figures v
4. Notes on contributors vii
5. 40th anniversary preface xi
6. Introduction 1
7. Current developments
8. Universal Credit: overview and gender implications 15
9. Family support and the Coalition: retrenchment, refocusing and restructuring 35
10. Housing, the welfare state and the Coalition government 55
11. The 2012/13 reforms of higher education in England: changing student finances and funding 77
12. Division and opposition: the Health and Social Care Bill 2011 97
13. Social policy in the developed and developing worlds
14. Immigrant-targeted activation policies: a comparison of the approaches in the Scandinavian welfare states 117
15. Welfare retrenchment under Left and Right government leadership: towards a consolidated framework of analysis? 137
16. From black hole to spring: the coming of age of social policy in the Arab countries? 165
17. China’s developmental model in Africa: a new era for global social policy? 183
18. Severe crisis: social policy in most challenging circumstances
19. The Greek welfare state in the age of austerity: anti-social policy and the politico-economic crisis 205
20. From opportunity to austerity: crisis and social policy in Spain 231
21. From financial crisis to welfare retrenchment: assessing the challenges to the Irish welfare state 257
22. The Great Recession and US social policy: from expansion to austerity 277
23. Seeking refuge in the Nordic model: social policy in Iceland after 2008 297
24. Index 319