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TAYLOR-GOOBY, PETER, TRINE LARSEN, and JOHANNES KANANEN. "Market Means and Welfare Ends: The UK Welfare State Experiment." Journal of Social Policy 33, no. 4 (2004): 573–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279404008001.

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The UK is distinctive in having the most liberal market-oriented welfare system in the European Union and the most majoritarian governmental system, capable of rapid and decisive action. The 1997 New Labour government abandoned the traditional neo-Keynesian/social democratic approach of the party and embarked on a programme of market-oriented welfare state reform. This reflects many aspects of policy direction (pursued more gradually and under different circumstances) elsewhere in Europe, and advocated in the European Employment Strategy and OECD proposals. The UK is thus a suitable test case

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Mooney, Gerry, and Sharon Wright. "Introduction: Social Policy in the Devolved Scotland: Towards a Scottish Welfare State?" Social Policy and Society 8, no. 3 (2009): 361–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s147474640900493x.

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Ten years have passed since devolution was implemented for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. This anniversary is worthy of note for all scholars of UK social welfare, not just those with a specialist interest in political reform or the ‘Celtic’ nations, because reflection on the first decade of devolution inspires a rethink of some of the basic working assumptions of social policy analysis (see below, also Mooney et al., 2006), for example the extent to which the notion of a UK welfare state remains meaningful (cf. McEwen and Parry, 2005). This themed section provides an opportunity to con

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Dannreuther, Charles. "Silencing the social: Debt and depletion in UK social policy." Capital & Class 43, no. 4 (2019): 599–615. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309816819880793.

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This article draws on a social reproduction approach to examine how debt informed the development of UK welfare provision. A brief history of the Public Works Loan Board introduces its centrality not only in the delivering of welfare institutions but also in the typographies and social values that informed welfare policies. The depletion of social care services today may be evident in the extensive use of debt to deliver social policy across the United Kingdom. However, in the past access to publicly backed borrowing enabled local authorities to deliver social rights that had been legislated f

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McCulloch, Steven. "Brexit and Animal Protection: Legal and Political Context and a Framework to Assess Impacts on Animal Welfare." Animals 8, no. 11 (2018): 213. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani8110213.

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The British people voted to leave the European Union (EU) in a 2016 referendum. The United Kingdom (UK) has been a member of the EU since the Maastricht Treaty was signed in 1993 and before that a member of the European Communities (EC) since 1973. EU animal health and welfare regulations and directives have had a major impact on UK animal protection policy. Similarly, the UK has had a substantial impact on EU animal protection. Brexit represents a substantial political upheaval for animal protection policy, with the potential to impact animal welfare in the UK, EU and internationally. Brexit’

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McCulloch, Steven P. "Brexit and Animal Welfare Impact Assessment: Analysis of the Opportunities Brexit Presents for Animal Protection in the UK, EU, and Internationally." Animals 9, no. 11 (2019): 877. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani9110877.

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The British people voted in a 2016 referendum to leave the European Union (EU). Brexit presents threats and opportunities to animal protection in the United Kingdom (UK), the EU, and internationally. This paper discusses opportunities for animal protection in terms of five criteria. These are first, political context; second, regulatory changes; third, economic and trade factors; fourth, institutional- and capacity-related factors; and fifth, EU and international considerations. Brexit permits reform of UK agricultural policy outside of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to reward high welfa

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Ward, Ashley B., Kate Stephen, Caroline McGregor Argo, et al. "COVID-19 impacts equine welfare: Policy implications for laminitis and obesity." PLOS ONE 16, no. 5 (2021): e0252340. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252340.

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The COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact human health and welfare on a global level. In March 2020, stringent national restrictions were enforced in the UK to protect public health and slow the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Restrictions were likely to have resulted in collateral consequences for the health and welfare of horses and ponies, especially those at risk of obesity and laminitis and this issue warranted more detailed exploration. The current study utilised qualitative methodology to investigate the implications of COVID-19 related policies upon equine management and welfare with a

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Annesley, Claire. "Americanised and Europeanised: UK Social Policy since 1997." British Journal of Politics and International Relations 5, no. 2 (2003): 143–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-856x.00101.

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A number of recent accounts of UK social policy under New Labour have emphasised the continuing Americanisation of the British welfare state. This article does not deny the influence of the US but rather seeks to balance it with an account of the growing Europeanisation of UK social policy. It argues that Americanisation and Europeanisation are distinct in terms of both content and process. Since these are not mutually exclusive, the UK is currently influenced by both. This situation is illustrated by looking at three social policy issues under New Labour: social exclusion, the New Deal and th

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Jolly, Andy. "No Recourse to Social Work? Statutory Neglect, Social Exclusion and Undocumented Migrant Families in the UK." Social Inclusion 6, no. 3 (2018): 190–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/si.v6i3.1486.

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Families in the UK with an irregular migration status are excluded from most mainstream welfare provision through the no recourse to public funds rule, and statutory children’s social work services are one of the few welfare services available to undocumented migrant families. This article draws on semi-structured interviews with undocumented migrant families who are accessing children’s services support to illustrate the sometimes uneasy relationship between child welfare law and immigration control. Outlining the legislative and policy context for social work with undocumented migrant famili

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MULVEY, GARETH. "Social Citizenship, Social Policy and Refugee Integration: a Case of Policy Divergence in Scotland?" Journal of Social Policy 47, no. 1 (2017): 161–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279417000253.

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AbstractThe relationship between Holyrood and Westminster is an evolving one where there is some evidence of policy divergence. Underpinning policy approaches are different views of social citizenship, with the Holyrood approach maintaining elements of the post-1945 welfare settlement. The place of refugees and asylum seekers within these differing approaches is currently underexplored. This article looks at the Scottish and UK Governments’ views of social rights and how they apply to asylum seekers and refugees. It suggests that despite refugee ‘policy’ being at least partly reserved, the Sco

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Jawad, Rana. "Religion, Social Welfare and Social Policy in the UK: Historical, Theoretical and Policy Perspectives." Social Policy and Society 11, no. 4 (2012): 553–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1474746412000309.

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Social science researchers in the UK now accept that religion has returned to public life (Spalek and Imtoual, 2008; Dinham and Lowndes, 2009), after what has been described by Gorski (2005) as a considerable period of ‘intellectual and political repression’ that began in the post-World War II era. This lasted until around the beginning of the 1980s when political events such as the 1979 Iranian revolution, the rise of the ‘moral majority’ in North America and the spread of religious political mobilisation across the world, forced social scientists to recalculate their predictions about the ef

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TAYLOR-GOOBY, PETER. "Re-Doubling the Crises of the Welfare State: The impact of Brexit on UK welfare politics." Journal of Social Policy 46, no. 4 (2017): 815–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279417000538.

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AbstractThe double crisis approach distinguishes two kinds of challenge confronting modern welfare states: long-term structural problems and short-term difficulties resulting from policy choices which affect the success with which the long-term issues can be addressed. Structural challenges include two main areas:•globalisation and technological changes demanding that governments direct attention to national competitiveness, and•population ageing, requiring more spending on pensions, and health and social care.Recent policy-related problems include the austerity programme since 2010 which has

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FARNSWORTH, KEVIN, and CHRIS HOLDEN. "The Business-Social Policy Nexus: Corporate Power and Corporate Inputs into Social Policy." Journal of Social Policy 35, no. 3 (2006): 473–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279406009883.

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It is increasingly impossible to understand and explain the shape and delivery of contemporary social policy unless we consider the role of business. Several factors have been at work here. First, many of the changes in social policy introduced since the 1970s have been in response either to business demands or more general concerns about national competitiveness and the needs of business. Second, globalisation has increased corporate power within states, leading to transformations in social and fiscal policies. Third, business has been incorporated into the management of many areas of the wel

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RING, PATRICK JOHN. "Security in Pension Provision: A Critical Analysis of UK Government Policy." Journal of Social Policy 34, no. 3 (2005): 343–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279405008810.

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The Labour government has often argued that it is attempting to find a ‘third way’ in politics, appearing to take its inspiration from Anthony Giddens and, in relation to Labour's pensions policy, Giddens' notion of ‘positive welfare’.Noting that the government maintains that ‘pensions are all about security’, and that it has declared the importance of this position throughout its reform of UK pension provision, this article critically examines the nature of the ‘security’ its reform is likely to deliver. Using the work of Giddens, it notes the importance of the concept of ontological security

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LAMBIE-MUMFORD, HANNAH. "‘Every Town Should Have One’: Emergency Food Banking in the UK." Journal of Social Policy 42, no. 1 (2012): 73–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s004727941200075x.

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AbstractThis article charts the rise of one of the UK's most high profile forms of food banks: the Trussell Trust Foodbank franchise. Employing empirical data it seeks to embed the phenomenon of the growth of Foodbanks within a social policy research context. In the first instance, the role of recent and on-going shifts in the social policy context are examined, notably the importance of welfare diversification under previous Labour governments (1997–2010) and the current public spending cuts, welfare restructuring and Big Society rhetoric of the Conservative−Liberal Democrat Coalition governm

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GREENER, IAN, and MARTIN POWELL. "The Evolution of Choice Policies in UK Housing, Education and Health Policy." Journal of Social Policy 38, no. 1 (2009): 63–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279408002559.

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AbstractScholarship in social policy in recent years has examined how policy positions users in a range of roles, particularly most recently in terms of their roles as ‘choosers’ through the increased use of markets in welfare. This article considers how choice policies have positioned users since the creation of the modern welfare state, presenting a history of choice policies, but also a comparative examination of how they have differed in the UK between housing, education and healthcare. It concludes by suggesting that although approaches to choice vary considerably between the three public

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McCabe, Angus, and Sangjin Hahn. "Promoting Social Enterprise in Korea and the UK: Community Economic Development, Alternative Welfare Provision or a Means to Welfare to Work?" Social Policy and Society 5, no. 3 (2006): 387–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s147474640600306x.

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Social enterprise has become an important component of governmental social and economic policy in both the UK and South Korea over the last decade. Both countries have experienced a growth in social businesses, with the UK recently adopting targets for the number of social enterprises established. Whilst the emphasis in the UK has been on their role in developing mixed economies of care and building entrepreneurial skills in deprived communities, the South Korean model has been more closely allied to US ‘welfare to work’ strategies. The paper explores these differences and critically examines

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Sýkora, Luděk. "Contemporary Urban Policy in the United Kingdom." Geografie 97, no. 3 (1992): 172–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.37040/geografie1992097030172.

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The article is focused on the development of the UK inner city policy. A survey of the contemporary programmes is outlined and achievements and failures of urban policy initiatives are analysed. The stress is laid on the departure from welfare ideas and on implementation of new initiatives on the background of postwelfare paradigm.

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Stewart, Mo. "Preventable harm: creating a mental health crisis." Journal of Public Mental Health 18, no. 4 (2019): 224–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jpmh-07-2019-0070.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the preventable harm created by the adoption of austerity measures in 2010, added to the welfare reforms introduced in 2008 which, collectively, have negative implications for population mental health in the UK. Design/methodology/approach A critical reflection of published research papers and key policy documents in this area. Findings Negative mental health consequences of the combined impact of welfare reforms and austerity measures in the UK since 2010 are identified when relating to disability benefit assessments, and to the increased puniti

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Milne, J. C. "Framing legislation: a legislator's viewpoint." BSAP Occasional Publication 23 (January 1999): 89–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0263967x00033280.

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AbstractWell balanced and effective legislation is required to protect animals and to address the concerns of organizations with interests in animal welfare. The principal aim of animal welfare legislation is the protection of animals by the prevention of suffering, pain and distress. This can be achieved by identifying animals’ needs and by the prohibition of procedures having a detrimental effect on welfare. Welfare policy and legislation are determined by many factors, including the results from government-funded research, advice from bodies such as the Farm Animal Welfare Council and other

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WILLIAMS, CHARLOTTE, and GERRY MOONEY. "Decentring Social Policy? Devolution and the Discipline of Social Policy: A Commentary." Journal of Social Policy 37, no. 3 (2008): 489–507. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279408002018.

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AbstractConstitutional change offers the opportunity for a major departure in the nature and direction of policy, practices and governance in social policy. This article explores some of the impacts devolution has for the discipline of social policy, suggesting that devolution matters for social policy as a field of research and study, and for the analysis and understanding of developments in UK social policy. It argues that devolution has a number of implications in terms of comparative and transnational social policy, new sites of analysis, the language of social policy, the production of kn

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MOKHTAR, CHRISTINA, and LUCINDA PLATT. "Lone Mothers, Ethnicity and Welfare Dynamics." Journal of Social Policy 39, no. 1 (2009): 95–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279409990031.

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AbstractThis article investigates the ethnic patterning of exit from means-tested benefits in a UK town. Lone parents in the UK face high risks of poverty and high rates of receipt of means-tested, out-of-work benefits. There has been extensive policy concern with lone parents' poverty and with potential ‘welfare dependency’. Investigation of welfare dynamics has unpacked the notion of welfare dependency, and has stimulated policy to better understand the factors associated with longer rather than shorter durations. However, within this analysis, there has been little attention paid to ethnici

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Morelli, Carlo J., and Paul T. Seaman. "Universal versus Targeted Benefits: The Distributional Effects of Free School Meals." Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 23, no. 4 (2005): 583–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/c0457.

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UK government policy over the past thirty years has seen a movement away from universal provision of welfare towards the targeting of welfare. The advent of devolution in Scotland, and to a lesser degree Wales, has, however, created new policy forums in which the shift towards targeted benefits has been reversed in a number of important fields. Welfare provision in relation to children is a further key area in which this policy debate has emerged. Little evidence has been provided for the effectiveness of this shift in policy until now. We examine the effect of this divergence in welfare polic

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JORDAN, JOHN DAVID. "Welfare Grunters and Workfare Monsters? An Empirical Review of the Operation of Two UK ‘Work Programme’ Centres." Journal of Social Policy 47, no. 3 (2017): 583–601. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279417000629.

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AbstractWorkfare increases requirements on welfare claimants: a major shift in UK social welfare policy post-1980s. Political, academic and cultural debates surround the ethical basis, and practical operations, of workfare schemes. Moreover, the UK government has claimed that workfare provides value for money in an age of austerity, ‘help and support’ for the long-term unemployed, and ‘incentives’ for increased claimant job-seeking. This article presents results gathered from sociological research into the UK's ‘Work Programme’ workfare scheme in order to contextualise these debates and contri

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Jawad, Rana. "Thinking about Religious Welfare and Rethinking Social Policy in the British Context." Social Policy and Society 11, no. 4 (2012): 613–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1474746412000280.

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The role of religion in social welfare provision, and more broadly in shaping the development of state social policy in the UK, has become an issue of increasing prominence in the last decade raising both new challenges and opportunities. This article brings together new and existing research in the field of religion and social action/welfare in the British context to present a preliminary discussion of how and why religion, as a source of social identity and moral values, matters for social policy. The key argument is that religious welfare provision goes beyond the mixed economy of welfare p

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HOGGETT, PAUL, HEN WILKINSON, and PHEOBE BEEDELL. "Fairness and the Politics of Resentment." Journal of Social Policy 42, no. 3 (2013): 567–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279413000056.

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AbstractThe role of the emotions in the framing of welfare policies is still relatively underexplored. This article examines the role of resentment in the construction of a particular form of ‘anti-welfare populism’ advanced by the Coalition Government in the UK after 2010. We argue that UK political parties have appropriated the discourse of fairness to promote fundamentally divisive policies which have been popular with large sections of the electorate including, paradoxically, many poorer voters. In focus group research in white working class communities in the UK undertaken just before the

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Trein, Philipp. "Bossing or Protecting? The Integration of Social Regulation into the Welfare State." ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 691, no. 1 (2020): 104–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716220953758.

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This article is an empirical analysis of how social regulation is integrated into the welfare state. I compare health, migration, and unemployment policy reforms in Australia, Austria, Canada, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, and the United States from 1980 to 2014. Results show that the timing of reform events is similar among countries for health and unemployment policy but differs among countries for migration policy. For migration and unemployment policy, the integration of regulation and welfare is more likely to entail conditiona

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Fletcher, Del Roy. "Welfare Reform, Jobcentre Plus and the Street-Level Bureaucracy: Towards Inconsistent and Discriminatory Welfare for Severely Disadvantaged Groups?" Social Policy and Society 10, no. 4 (2011): 445–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1474746411000200.

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A defining feature of UK welfare reform has been concerted moves towards greater conditionality and sanctioning which has stimulated much academic debate. However, few policy articles have sought to examine how welfare reforms are actually implemented. Lipsky (1980) has shown that the intentions of policy makers may be frustrated by the behaviour of public service workers operating in a ‘corrupted world of service’. This article draws upon the findings of the evaluation of the Jobseekers Mandatory Activity to discuss how key welfare reforms are likely to be implemented. It argues that that dis

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Rummery, Kirstein. "Introduction: Themed Section: Partnerships, Governance and Citizenship." Social Policy and Society 5, no. 2 (2006): 223–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1474746405002903.

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The issue of ‘joined up’ governance and partnership working (between statutory partners, between the state and the voluntary sector and between the state and the private sector) is one which currently occupies the attention of policy makers and academics across mixed-liberal welfare states such as the European Union, Nordic, Commonwealth and North American welfare regimes (Geddes and Benington, 2001; Considine and Lewis, 2003; Bradford, 2003; Ovretveit, 2003). Many of these states, the UK included, are attempting to tackle the issues of growing demands for services, the perceived ineffectivene

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Chowdry, Haroon. "Time-Limited in-Work Benefits in the UK: A Review of Recent Evidence." National Institute Economic Review 219 (January 2012): R53—R64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002795011221900106.

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This paper reviews three UK-based welfare-to-work programmes featuring time-limited financial incentives to leave out-of-work benefits for employment. The policies considered are (i) the Employment Retention and Advancement demonstration, aimed at lone parents and the long-term unemployed; (ii) In-Work Credit, aimed at lone parents on welfare; (iii) Pathways to Work, aimed at recipients of incapacity benefits. I illustrate the difficulties in extrapolating from specific findings to general policy-relevant conclusions. Finally, I depict the challenge facing evaluators in future and point to the

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Dowler, Elizabeth, and Hannah Lambie-Mumford. "How Can Households Eat in austerity? Challenges for Social Policy in the UK." Social Policy and Society 14, no. 3 (2015): 417–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1474746415000032.

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In the United Kingdom many households are seeing their food security suffer through rising food and fuel prices, economic recession and welfare reform. Household budgeting priorities by necessity tend to be towards expenditures whose default consequences are severe; food budgets are where people can and do make economies. People manage variously on minimal diets, food gifts and charitable support, but the consequences in terms of social wellbeing and nutritional health, while potentially severe, are hidden and individually embodied rather than monitored and addressed by society. This article d

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Chaney, Paul. "Electoral discourse and formative structural narratives of welfare divergence in multi-level systems: homelessness policy in UK elections 1970–2011." Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy 29, no. 1 (2013): 28–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21699763.2013.802989.

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Over recent decades there has been an international shift towards multi-level governance. Against this backdrop, many comparative welfare studies take government policy outputs as the starting point for their analysis. However, the associated pluralization of electoral systems in unitary states means that welfare choices are no longer exclusively informed by single state-wide ballots. Accordingly, this study makes an original contribution by exploring the formative role of electoral discourse in shaping social policy divergence in (quasi-)federal states. It does this through an examination of

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Wiggan, Jay. "Contesting the austerity and “welfare reform” narrative of the UK Government." International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 37, no. 11-12 (2017): 639–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijssp-04-2016-0050.

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Purpose The “welfare reform” narrative of successive Conservative-led UK Government emphasises public spending reductions, individual responsibility and strengthening of benefit conditionality. The purpose of this paper is to cast light on how this narrative is challenged and disrupted by the Scottish Government through their articulation of a social democratic welfare state imaginary. Design/methodology/approach The study draws together a decentred governance perspective that emphasises ideational tradition for understanding (re)construction of governance (Bevir, 2013, p. 27) with critical di

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Mills, China. "‘Dead people don’t claim’: A psychopolitical autopsy of UK austerity suicides." Critical Social Policy 38, no. 2 (2017): 302–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0261018317726263.

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One of the symptoms of post financial crisis austerity in the UK has been an increase in the numbers of suicides, especially by people who have experienced welfare reform. This article develops and utilises an analytic framework of psychopolitical autopsy to explore media coverage of ‘austerity suicide’ and to take seriously the psychic life of austerity (internalisation, shame, anxiety), embedding it in a context of social dis-ease. Drawing on three distinct yet interrelated areas of literature (the politics of affect and psychosocial dynamics of welfare, post and anti-colonial psychopolitics

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Leruth, Benjamin, and Peter Taylor-Gooby. "Does political discourse matter? Comparing party positions and public attitudes on immigration in England." Politics 39, no. 2 (2018): 154–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263395718755566.

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The 2015 UK General Election campaign was mostly dominated by the issues of immigration, public debt, and income inequality. While most political parties adopted austerity-led programmes in order to reduce the level of public deficit, their stances on immigration vary significantly despite the two main parties converging on a welfare chauvinist frame. This article compares party positions to policy recommendations formulated by participants in a democratic forum as part of the ‘Welfare States Futures: Our Children’s Europe’ project in order to determine whether recent party pledges on immigrat

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SKEVIK, ANNE. "Children of the Welfare State: Individuals with Entitlements, or Hidden in the Family?" Journal of Social Policy 32, no. 3 (2003): 423–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279403007013.

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‘Feminist’ social policy has done an important job in developing new concepts for studying welfare state variation. But just like ‘mainstream’ social policy, gender-sensitive analyses have their blind spots. This article argues that differences in policies towards children remain an understudied area, and that developing concepts for varying policy approaches to children can increase our understanding of social political differences. Two countries – the UK and Norway – are juxtaposed in the empirical analysis, which centres on policies towards children living with one parent and the developmen

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Fitzpatrick, Tony. "In Search of a Welfare Democracy." Social Policy and Society 1, no. 1 (2002): 11–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1474746402001033.

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This article contributes to the growing literature concerning the necessity and desirability of democratising the UK welfare state. It takes a theoretical approach by exploring some of the key influences on contemporary debates: risk society, governmentality, the new social democracy and associational welfare. The article suggests that none of these supplies the theoretical foundations of a welfare democracy and that another approach must be found. It concludes that only by engaging with the debate concerning deliberative democracy can social policy find a way forward. The key is to emancipate

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Chaney, Paul. "‘Governance transitions’ and minority nationalist parties’ pressure for welfare state change: Evidence from Welsh and Scottish elections – And the UK’s ‘Brexit’ referendum." Global Social Policy 17, no. 3 (2017): 279–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468018116686922.

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This study is concerned with welfare state development and the intersection between the twin global phenomena of sub-state nationalism and ‘governance transitions’. Specifically, how minority nationalist parties (MNPs) use discourse to exert pressure for welfare change. Accordingly, here, we explore their discourse in Scottish and Welsh elections, and the UK ‘Brexit’ referendum on European Union membership. The findings reveal how pressure for welfare change is framed using key tropes including nation-building, extending social protection and resistance to central government programmes. The wi

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Anderson, Isobel. "HOUSING, HOMELESSNESS AND THE WELFARE STATE IN THE UK." European Journal of Housing Policy 4, no. 3 (2004): 369–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1461671042000307305.

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WRIGHT, SHARON. "Welfare-to-work, Agency and Personal Responsibility." Journal of Social Policy 41, no. 2 (2012): 309–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279411001000.

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AbstractA strong international reform agenda has been established around the idea that benefit recipients must be ‘activated’ to find jobs. This approach, which has found support across the political spectrum in times of affluence and austerity, rests on previously contested assumptions about human motivation, choice, action and personal responsibility. This article considers the largely untested assumptions within UK welfare-to-work policies and marketised employment services, which are designed to control and modify behaviour through compulsion and incentives. It examines those assumptions i

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Baker, Christopher. "Spiritual Capital and Economies of Grace: Redefining the Relationship between Religion and the Welfare State." Social Policy and Society 11, no. 4 (2012): 565–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1474746412000279.

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This article traces the trajectory of UK government social policy since World War Two, with particular reference to the shifts in the past 10 to 15 years towards concepts such as multi-level governance, localism, the Third Way and the Big Society. It describes the shifting relationships between institutional religion and the State during that period, tracking the ‘return of faith’ in government policy and social welfare as it seeks to address a number of intractable social and economic issues related to cohesion and inequality, as well as a perceived absence of moral and ethical norms within p

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LEWIS, JANE, and MARY CAMPBELL. "Work/Family Balance Policies in the UK since 1997: A New Departure?" Journal of Social Policy 36, no. 3 (2007): 365–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279407001067.

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Three successive Labour governments have developed a range of work/family balance (WFB) policies, including child care services, leaves and flexible working hours, which have also become an increasingly coherent package. Drawing on Hall (1993), we explore the extent to which these represent a significant change at three levels: that of ideas (the goals of policy), mechanisms (the nature of the policy instruments), and settings (the fine-tuning of policy instruments). We examine how far the ideas driving the policy developments have been about the welfare of the family and its members, and the

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WIGGAN, JAY. "Policy Boostering the Social Impact Investment Market in the UK." Journal of Social Policy 47, no. 4 (2018): 721–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279418000089.

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AbstractUnder the Conservative-Liberal Coalition Government and the Conservative Government that took office in 2015, policy measures were introduced to develop a Social Impact Investment Market that harnesses private finance to invest in services to achieve social and financial outcomes. This nascent market is of growing interest amongst social scientists (Bryan and Rafferty, 2014; Whitfield, 2015; McHugh et al., 2013; Dowling, 2017; Edmiston and Nicholls, 2017), but little attention has been given to interrogating related UK Government discourse. The originality of this paper is its contribu

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Lister, Ruth. "Towards a Citizens’ Welfare State." Theory, Culture & Society 18, no. 2-3 (2001): 91–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02632760122051805.

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Notions of recognition and difference do not inform the mainstream debate about welfare reform, which is, instead, dominated by a dichotomous discourse of active modernization vs passive ‘welfare dependency’. The article challenges this dichotomy within the context of New Labour’s welfare reform agenda in the UK. It argues, first, that welfare reform should treat improvements in social security benefits not as promoting ‘passive’ welfare but as complementary to labour market activation policies. Second, it redefines active welfare to incorporate notions of active citizenship, which construct w

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Beyer, Stephen. "Commentary on “Employment for all: United States Disability Policy”." Tizard Learning Disability Review 21, no. 3 (2016): 162–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/tldr-04-2016-0013.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to reflect on Rebecca Monteleone’s paper “Employment for all: United States Disability Policy” and provides a commentary on its implications for the UK. Design/methodology/approach – The approach is to provide a comparison of the situation described in the article for the USA with that of the UK. Findings – There has been significant progress in legislation and policy relevant to the employment of people with intellectual disabilities (IDs) in the USA. They have achieved higher employment rates than the UK, but are still at lower levels of employment than

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Sullivan, Ann. "Policy Issues in Gay and Lesbian Adoption." Adoption & Fostering 19, no. 4 (1995): 21–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030857599501900405.

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Despite keen public, professional and media interest in the topic, adoption agencies have developed few specific policies on the issue of lesbian and gay adoption, either in Britain or the United States. In the following article, originally published by the Child Welfare League of America, Ann Sullivan provides an overview of key considerations about homosexual adopters. The issues are of universal interest, although the legal, social and policy contexts will vary from country to country. For example, some of the points raised under the section ‘Consequences of Inaction’ may be less relevant i

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Chitty, John. "Diary of a parliamentary intern." Veterinary Record 181, no. 7 (2017): ii. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/vr.j3775.

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How the loss of non-UK EU vets could threaten animal welfare, public health and our ability to trade was discussed at a BVA/RCVS reception in Parliament in June. Parliamentary intern Anthony Ridge reports how the discussions will influence the Government’s future immigration policy.

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Bridgen, Paul, and Traute Meyer. "Individualisation reversed: the cross-class politics of social regulation in the UK’s public/private pension mix." Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research 24, no. 1 (2018): 25–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1024258917746031.

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Since the turn of the century UK pension politics has been dominated by legislative and regulatory efforts to increase the state’s redistributive role in the pension system. Such developments are unexpected by the theoretical literature on welfare states. This predicts regulatory disputes in multi-pillar pension systems, but does not expect egalitarian reforms in liberal systems like the UK where organised labour is weak. We explain these reforms as a product of a temporary cross-class alliance, facilitated by a cohesive pension policy network, and formalised by an independent Pensions Commiss

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Chaney, Paul. "Public Policy for Non-humans: Exploring UK State-wide Parties' Formative Policy Record on Animal Welfare, 1979–2010." Parliamentary Affairs 67, no. 4 (2013): 907–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pa/gss108.

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Park, Sung Ho. "Between government unilateralism and corporatist bargaining: public sector pension reforms in the UK and Ireland, 2000s–2010s." Japanese Journal of Political Science 20, no. 2 (2019): 107–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1468109919000033.

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AbstractStudies on welfare reform in advanced European countries have identified two established paths to welfare retrenchment: government unilateralism and corporatist bargaining. This study explores a more complicated path to welfare reform, wherein governments pursue ‘non-corporatist’ bargaining by actively combining features of unilateralism and negotiation. Such a hybrid case is explained by employing an ‘insider-outsider’ framework for public policy reform. The key argument is that the presence of exclusive insiders complicates the reform process, disqualifying both unilateralism and cor

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GRIFFITHS, RITA. "No Love on the Dole: The Influence of the UK Means-tested Welfare System on Partnering and Family Structure." Journal of Social Policy 46, no. 3 (2017): 543–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279417000046.

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AbstractTwo-parent families with dependent children are known to be at lower risk of poverty and significantly less reliant on state financial help than lone-parent households. It might therefore be expected that the factors influencing partnership transitions among low-income women would represent a key area of policy interest. However, driven by concerns about weak work incentives, policy focus and research has to date concentrated on understanding lone parents’ labour supply and encouraging the transition from benefits into employment. Surprisingly little is therefore known about demographi

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