Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. Notes on contributors v
4. The year in social policy 1
5. UK developments
6. Modernising primary healthcare in England: the role of Primary Care Groups and Trusts 15
7. Devolution in England: coping with post-industrial industrial regions – issues of territorial inequality 37
8. Reconstituting social policy: the case of Northern Ireland 57
9. ‘Revolutionising’ care for people with learning difficulties? The Labour government’s Learning Disabilities Strategy 85
10. International developments
11. Globalisation and welfare: a meso-level analysis 107
12. The ‘anti-globalisation’ movement and its implications for social policy 127
13. Migration policy in Europe: contradictions and continuities 151
14. The European Union’s social policy focus: from labour to welfare and constitutionalised rights? 171
15. Conceptual developments
16. The politics and economics of disciplining an inclusive and exclusive society 199
17. Green social welfare: an investigation into political attitudes towards ecological critiques and prescriptions concerning the welfare state 225
18. Using social capital in the policy context: challenging the orthodoxy 249
19. Participation and social policy: transformation, liberation or regulation? 265
20. Index 291