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Six Governance and social policy in Northern Ireland (1999-2004): the devolution years and postscript

  • Eithne McLaughlin
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Social Policy Review 17
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Abstract

This chapter provides a review of the devolution in the UK that began in Social Policy Review 16, with an examination of the brief period of devolution in Northern Ireland, sometime between 1999 and 2004. The discussion is placed in the context of a longer history of devolved government under Ulster Unionist control since the partition of Ireland in 1922. The author is able to identify several distinctive features of Northern Ireland’s welfare system that involve a ‘small government’.

Abstract

This chapter provides a review of the devolution in the UK that began in Social Policy Review 16, with an examination of the brief period of devolution in Northern Ireland, sometime between 1999 and 2004. The discussion is placed in the context of a longer history of devolved government under Ulster Unionist control since the partition of Ireland in 1922. The author is able to identify several distinctive features of Northern Ireland’s welfare system that involve a ‘small government’.

Chapters in this book

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents iii
  3. Notes on contributors v
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Current services
  6. Social security and welfare reform under New Labour 15
  7. New Labour’s education policy: innovation or reinvention? 33
  8. Transforming the NHS: the story in 2004 51
  9. Housing in an ‘opportunity society’ 69
  10. Personal Social Services 85
  11. Current issues
  12. Governance and social policy in Northern Ireland (1999-2004): the devolution years and postscript 107
  13. At home abroad: the presidential election of 2004, the politics of American social policy and what European readers might make of these subjects 125
  14. The future of healthcare in the UK: think-tanks and their policy prescriptions 147
  15. Consumerism and the reform of public services: inequalities and instabilities 167
  16. The challenges of measuring government output in the healthcare sector 183
  17. Social investment perspectives and practices: a decade in British politics 203
  18. New Labour
  19. A rootless third way: a continental European perspective on New Labour’s welfare state, revisited 233
  20. Welfare after Thatcherism: New Labour and social democratic politics 255
  21. A progressive consensus in the making? 273
  22. New Labour’s family policy 289
  23. Index 303
https://doi.org/10.56687/9781847421302-008

Chapters in this book

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents iii
  3. Notes on contributors v
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Current services
  6. Social security and welfare reform under New Labour 15
  7. New Labour’s education policy: innovation or reinvention? 33
  8. Transforming the NHS: the story in 2004 51
  9. Housing in an ‘opportunity society’ 69
  10. Personal Social Services 85
  11. Current issues
  12. Governance and social policy in Northern Ireland (1999-2004): the devolution years and postscript 107
  13. At home abroad: the presidential election of 2004, the politics of American social policy and what European readers might make of these subjects 125
  14. The future of healthcare in the UK: think-tanks and their policy prescriptions 147
  15. Consumerism and the reform of public services: inequalities and instabilities 167
  16. The challenges of measuring government output in the healthcare sector 183
  17. Social investment perspectives and practices: a decade in British politics 203
  18. New Labour
  19. A rootless third way: a continental European perspective on New Labour’s welfare state, revisited 233
  20. Welfare after Thatcherism: New Labour and social democratic politics 255
  21. A progressive consensus in the making? 273
  22. New Labour’s family policy 289
  23. Index 303
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