Modernising the Welfare State: The Blair Legacy

Modernising the welfare state......Page 2
Contents......Page 4
List of tables and figures......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 7
Notes on contributors......Page 8
Introduction......Page 12
Modernising the welfare state and the party of welfare reform......Page 13
The meaning of modernisation......Page 14
Analysing the modernisation of the welfare state......Page 23
Introduction......Page 28
New Labour’s approach to the NHS......Page 31
Neoliberal policies......Page 36
The nature of change......Page 37
A distinctive New Labour approach?......Page 41
After Blair: emerging consensus on the NHS?......Page 43
Conclusion......Page 44
New Labour, old housing policy?......Page 46
Housing and social exclusion......Page 47
Choice and housing......Page 50
Devolution......Page 53
Blair, Brown, Cameron and housing policy......Page 54
Stimulating housing supply......Page 55
Public sector managerialism and orders of change......Page 57
Conclusion......Page 59
Introduction......Page 64
Third order change: reclaiming the ‘p-word’......Page 66
Significant change: the National Minimum Wage and asset-based welfare......Page 70
Second order change......Page 72
Explaining New Labour’s legacy......Page 77
Policy change ahead?......Page 79
Conclusion......Page 80
Policy developments under New Labour......Page 84
Coordination and integration......Page 86
An extended role for private capital......Page 88
Central standard setting and inspection......Page 90
Prevention or targeting those in most need?......Page 91
New Labour and social justice......Page 92
Orders of change......Page 93
Conclusion......Page 95
Introduction......Page 102
Early years education......Page 105
Diversification of school types......Page 107
Re-professionalisation of the teaching profession......Page 110
The Every Child Matters agenda......Page 112
Conclusion......Page 113
Introduction......Page 116
Politics and populism......Page 118
‘Modernising’ criminal justice......Page 122
‘Partnership’ and criminal justice policy......Page 128
Conclusion......Page 131
Introduction......Page 136
The logic......Page 138
Policies, programmes and techniques......Page 143
Conclusion......Page 148
New Labour reflexive modernisation and risk......Page 154
New Labour risk and positive welfare......Page 155
Discourses of risk: New Labour and the risk society......Page 156
Area-based initiatives......Page 157
Coordination and integration......Page 159
An extended role for private capital......Page 160
A modest increase in citizen obligations......Page 162
E-government and technology......Page 163
Risk and the impact of change......Page 164
Conclusion......Page 166
Introduction......Page 172
What did New Labour inherit?......Page 174
Housing......Page 175
Social security......Page 176
Education......Page 178
Health......Page 181
After Blair......Page 183
Conclusion......Page 184
Introduction......Page 190
Choice as an idea......Page 191
Choice as a policy instrument......Page 193
Choice as a setting......Page 195
Variations of choice......Page 197
Choice after Blair......Page 200
Conclusion......Page 201
Introduction......Page 210
1997–2007: constructing an increasingly conditiona lwelfare state......Page 212
Tinkering or transformation: towards a new conditional welfare state?......Page 218
Conclusion......Page 224
Introduction......Page 230
The Conservative approach to public reform, and Labour 1997–2000......Page 231
Labour policy 2000–04......Page 233
The return of markets 2003–07......Page 234
Discussion......Page 237
Conclusion......Page 240
Introduction......Page 246
Socioeconomic conditions and institutional welfare state design in the late 1990s......Page 247
Modernising the welfare state......Page 249
Social Democratic welfare state reforms in Germany and the UK......Page 251
Comparing ‘Social Democratic’ reforms: the outcome dimension......Page 256
Modern Social Democrats’ imprints on welfare state institutions......Page 258
Conclusion......Page 261
Introduction......Page 266
The Blair legacy......Page 267
A modernising project?......Page 270
Tinkering or transformation?......Page 274
Modernising the welfare state......Page 278
‘Camerownism’: a progressive consensus?......Page 281
Conclusion......Page 283
Index......Page 286