Titlebook: Developments in British Social Policy; Nick Ellison (Lecturer in Sociology and Social Pol Textbook 1998Latest edition Macmillan Publishers

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The Changing Politics of Social Policyies suggest that the Conservatives have been successful in forging a new ‘consensus’ about the principles that should imbue contemporary attitudes towards welfare, if not about the precise policy details. The bulk of the chapter focuses on the impact of these normative changes on the Labour Party’s

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Health Policyelationships and attempts to encourage prevention and personal responsibility for welfare. Nevertheless, as a system of health care the National Health Service (NHS) remains unique in that it is funded principally out of taxation and, according to official policy documentation, there is continuing c

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Housing Policying needs. From the early 1950s onwards there was also a gathering consensus of support for the expansion of home ownership, underpinned by the generally favourable economic climate. In the case of private renting the continuing long-term decline led to a policy that was effectively one of managed d

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Changing Dimensions of Povertyecially consumption patterns and a perception of ‘needs’ that might be detrimental to good health. It may be that social policy makers need to think not only about income-related issues but also about different forms of intervention designed to change ‘poor lifestyles’ and tackle the causes of pover

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n agendasetting writer in the field of social policy. ReputaThis important text furnishes students with a comprehensive introduction that covers not just a sector-by-sector policy analysis but also its important theoretical underpinning and a discussion of the wider socio-economic context of policy-

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Lorian Baker,Dennis P. Cantwellcal reduction of the scale and scope of the welfare state (see Chapter 2 of this volume). There are many reasons why welfare funding and services are now under pressure in the advanced countries: low growth, widespread unemployment, an ageing population, tax aversion and a growing disinclination to subsidise the ‘feckless’.

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New Conceptions of Citizenshipn which citizenship operates as a force for exclusion as well as inclusion. In conclusion, a possible re-articulation of citizenship will be suggested on the grounds that the exclusionary tensions inherent in citizenship do not invalidate its use as an important theoretical and political concept for social policy.