Contents

pp iii-iv

Notes on contributors

pp v-vi

one - The year in social policy

pp 1-12

Part One - UK developments

pp 13-14

two - Modernising primary healthcare in England: the role of Primary Care Groups and Trusts

pp 15-36

three - Devolution in England: coping with post-industrial industrial regions – issues of territorial inequality

pp 37-56

four - Reconstituting social policy: the case of Northern Ireland

pp 57-84

five - ‘Revolutionising’ care for people with learning difficulties? The Labour government’s Learning Disabilities Strategy

pp 85-104

Part Two - International developments

pp 105-106

six - Globalisation and welfare: a meso-level analysis

pp 107-126

seven - The ‘anti-globalisation’ movement and its implications for social policy

pp 127-150

eight - Migration policy in Europe: contradictions and continuities

pp 151-170

nine - The European Union’s social policy focus: from labour to welfare and constitutionalised rights?

pp 171-194

Part Three - Conceptual developments

pp 195-198

ten - The politics and economics of disciplining an inclusive and exclusive society

pp 199-224

eleven - Green social welfare: an investigation into political attitudes towards ecological critiques and prescriptions concerning the welfare state

pp 225-248

twelve - Using social capital in the policy context: challenging the orthodoxy

pp 249-264

thirteen - Participation and social policy: transformation, liberation or regulation?

pp 265-290

Index

pp 291-300

Also available from The Policy Press

pp 301-303