Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of tables and boxes v
4. List of abbreviations vi
5. Notes on contributors viii
6. Introduction 1
7. Current developments
8. A year of transition in post-compulsory education and training 11
9. Planning for infrastructure and housing – is sustainable development a dream? 35
10. Towards a new pension settlement? Recent pension reform in the UK 51
11. Climate change and climate change policy in the UK 2006–07 69
12. Policy for older people in Wales 93
13. Current debates
14. Flexibility or flexploitation? Problems with work–life balance in a low-income neighbourhood 113
15. The role of confidence and identity in civic participation: exploring ethnic group differences 133
16. The problem of riches: is philanthropy a solution or part of the problem? 151
17. Policy from the pitch? Soccer and young refugee women in a shifting policy climate 173
18. Social citizenship in post-liberal Britain and post-corporatist Germany: curtailed, fragmented, streamlined, but still on the agenda 191
19. Engendering policy and politics
20. Gender and New Labour: after the male breadwinner model? 215
21. A review of engendering policy in the EU 241
22. Forming Australian families: gender ideologies and policy settings 263
23. Working fathers as providers and carers: towards a new conceptualisation of fatherhood 279
24. Index 297