Social Issues and Party Politics / Edition 1

by Helen Jones, Susanne MacGregor

Overview

After the landslide election of a new Labour government in May 1997, what are the key social policy issues and problems which the new government needs to address?
Social Issues and Party Politics looks at the manifestos of the main parties and the way social issues figured in the 1997 election campaign and the early days of the new government. Chapters discuss green issues, the management and financing of welfare in contemporary Britain, the delivery of key services in health, education, employment, criminal justice, housing, personal social services, pensions and other areas of social security. The particular circumstances of Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales are also examined.
Social Issues and Party Politics takes social policy beyond the soundbite and provides a convincing and incisive analysis of current social policy approaches and inherited problems. It identifies the deep social questions which will need to be addressed if Labour is to deliver on its promise of a new Britain.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415174275
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/30/1998
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Helen Jones is Lecturer in Social Policy at Goldsmiths College, London,
Susanne MacGregor is Professor of Social Policy at Middlesex University

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The road to 1997, Helen Jones; Chapter 2 Managing the welfare state, Tony Butcher; Chapter 3 Taxing and spending the people's money, Susanne MacGregor; Chapter 4 Jobs, unemployment and the European Union, Valerie Symes; Chapter 5 ‘Education, education, education’, Miriam E. David; Chapter 6 The people's health, Helen Jones; Chapter 7 New Partnerships for social services, Susan Balloch; Chapter 8 Home truths, Mark Liddiard; Chapter 9 Poverty and social security in a changing Britain, Carey Oppenheim; Chapter 10 Paying for pensions, Barbara Waine; Chapter 11 Criminal justice, Frances Heidensohn; Chapter 12 The greenest election ever?, Sue Barber; Chapter 13 The view from Scotland, Richard Parry; Chapter 14 The view from Northern Ireland, Eithne McLaughlin; Chapter 15 The view from Wales, Michael Sullivan; Chapter 16 A new deal for Britain?, Susanne MacGregor; Index;