Front Matter

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. Notes on contributors v
4. Symposium on the Coalition government
5. Conservative social policy: from conviction to coalition 7
6. Something old and blue, or red, bold and new? Welfare reform and the Coalition government 25
7. The Conservative Party and the ‘Big Society’ 45
8. The age of responsibility: social policy and citizenship in the early 21st century 63
9. Debating the ‘death tax’: the politics of inheritance tax in the UK 85
10. The debate about public service occupational pension reform 103
11. Welfare to work after the recession: from the New Deals to the Work Programme 127
12. Lone parents and the Conservatives: anything new? 147
13. A treble blow? Child poverty in 2010 and beyond 165
14. The English NHS as a market: challenges for the Coalition government 185
15. Education in international context
16. Citizenship education in international perspective: lessons from the UK and overseas 211
17. “You’re only going to get it if you really shout for it”: education dispute resolution in the 21st century in England 233
18. A sin of omission: New Zealand’s export education industry and foreign policy 257
19. Student security in the global education market 281
20. Exporting policy: the growth of multinational education policy businesses and new policy ‘assemblages’ 303
21. Index 323