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