Front Matter

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. Notes on contributors v
4. Introduction xi
5. Contemporary debates and developments in the UK
6. Introducing Universal Credit 3
7. Reconciling fuel poverty and climate change policy under the Coalition government: Green Deal or no deal? 23
8. Doctors in the driving seat? Reforms in NHS primary care and commissioning 47
9. Financing later life: pensions, care, housing equity and the new politics of old age 67
10. Contributions from the Social Policy Association/East Asian Social Policy Research Network Conference of 2012
11. It’s time to move on from ‘race’? The official ‘invisibilisation’ of minority ethnic disadvantage 93
12. Corporations as political actors: new perspectives for health policy research 113
13. Square pegs and round holes: extending existing typologies fails to capture the complexities of Chinese social policy 129
14. The Earned Income Tax Credit as an anti-poverty programme: palliative or cure? 149
15. Social policy and culture: the cases of Japan and South Korea 167
16. Load-shedding and reloading: changes in government responsibility – the case of Israeli immigration and integration policy 2004–10 183
17. Themed section: work, employment and insecurity
18. ‘What unemployment means’ three decades and two recessions later 207
19. Precarious employment and EU employment regulation 227
20. How do activation policies affect social citizenship? The issue of autonomy 249
21. Modernising social security for lone parents: avoiding fertility and unemployment traps when reforming social policy in Northern Europe 271
22. Women, families and the ‘Great Recession’ in the UK 293
23. Index 315