Social Policy Review 15: Uk and International Perspectives

SOCIAL POLICY REVIEW 15......Page 2
Contents......Page 4
List of tables and figures......Page 5
Notes on contributors......Page 7
UK developments......Page 10
International developments......Page 13
Pensions, ageing and social policy......Page 16
Part One: UK social policy......Page 22
Introduction......Page 24
Explaining institutional expansion......Page 28
Constructing the population......Page 30
Outside the walls......Page 33
Conclusion......Page 35
Introduction......Page 40
Gordon Brown in the Treasury......Page 41
The rhetoric of ‘reform’......Page 42
The evolution of the spending review structure......Page 43
The development of the Treasury’s own social policy......Page 44
The spending record: the shift from social security to service increases......Page 46
The evolution of public service agreements......Page 47
What do PSAs look like?......Page 50
PSAs and SDAs as political mechanisms......Page 52
Problems of delivering spending increases......Page 54
Conclusion......Page 55
The evolution of the health consumer......Page 58
Choice in health policy documents......Page 60
The internal market......Page 62
Policy after the internal market......Page 64
Patient choice and consumerism......Page 67
Conclusion......Page 69
Part Two: International issues......Page 78
Introduction......Page 80
Globalisation or markets?......Page 81
Welfare or social protection?......Page 82
Social protection and markets......Page 83
What was the post-war welfare state?......Page 85
What went wrong with post-war social protection?......Page 88
Conclusion......Page 94
Introduction......Page 100
Convergence in social welfare systems and economic development......Page 101
Convergence and law......Page 107
Conclusion......Page 114
Introduction......Page 120
Theoretical debates on the health of nations and groups......Page 123
Greek progress on health from independence to‘democratic consolidation’ in 1981......Page 124
Health and social welfare since 1981: the PASOK era......Page 127
Conclusion......Page 134
Introduction......Page 142
Key federal welfare policy reforms......Page 144
State policy responses......Page 145
Implementation of welfare reform at the local level......Page 146
Effects of welfare reform on families and children......Page 153
Conclusion......Page 157
Tiger societies and tiger social policy......Page 164
Similarities and differences......Page 170
Evaluating tiger social policy......Page 173
Assessing the sustainability of the East Asian welfare model......Page 175
Conclusion......Page 177
Part Three: In focus: Pensions and old age......Page 182
Introduction......Page 184
Labour market changes and atypical workers......Page 185
Pension systems and the new career profiles......Page 191
Integrating the new career profiles in the existing pension systems......Page 195
Conclusion......Page 199
Introduction......Page 206
Pension challenges: the demographic, economic and policy legacy of the 20th century......Page 207
Desirable criteria for pension systems......Page 215
Evaluating New Labour’s pension settlement......Page 216
Back to the future......Page 222
Changes and chances in a risk society......Page 226
Positive images and reflexive identities......Page 227
No more heroes?......Page 228
The risky society?......Page 235
Identity and difference......Page 236
A ‘third way’, or no way, out?......Page 239
Conclusion......Page 241
Introduction......Page 248
The UK as a gendered welfare regime......Page 249
Women and pensions in the UK......Page 252
Ageing divorcees: a policy imperative......Page 253
Breadwinners, carers and divorce law......Page 254
Financial division on divorce......Page 255
The ‘problem’ of pensions and divorce: how judges viewed the issue of pension rights......Page 256
The ‘clean break’: a policy objective......Page 258
The process of reform: pension sharing on divorce......Page 259
Conclusion......Page 263
Index......Page 272