Notes on contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of tables and figures iv
4. Notes on contributors vi
5. Introduction: the year in social policy 1
6. UK social policy
7. Thinking historically about integration 15
8. Invest and reform: spending review 2002 and its control regime 31
9. Who choosing what? The evolution of the use of ‘choice’ in the NHS, and its importance for New Labour 49
10. International issues
11. Globalisation/welfare: what’s the preposition? And, or, versus, with? 71
12. Convergence in social welfare systems: what does it mean? 91
13. Analysing the health transition: what the Greek case tells us about the social determinants of health 111
14. Welfare reform in the United States: the first five years of TANF 123
15. Social policy in the East Asian tiger economies: past, present and future 155
16. In focus: Pensions and old age
17. Adapting pension systems to labour market changes in western Europe 175
18. Pensions choices for the 21st century: meeting the challenges of an ageing society 197
19. The schlock and the new: risk, reflexivity and retirement 217
20. Pension sharing on divorce: the future for women 239
21. Index 263