Contents

pp iii-iv

Notes on contributors

pp v-x

Introduction

pp xi-xii

Part One - Contemporary debates and developments in the UK

pp 1-2

one - Introducing Universal Credit

pp 3-22

two - Reconciling fuel poverty and climate change policy under the Coalition government: Green Deal or no deal?

pp 23-46

three - Doctors in the driving seat? Reforms in NHS primary care and commissioning

pp 47-66

four - Financing later life: pensions, care, housing equity and the new politics of old age

pp 67-88

Part Two - Contributions from the Social Policy Association/East Asian Social Policy Research Network Conference of 2012

pp 89-92

five - It’s time to move on from ‘race’? The official ‘invisibilisation’ of minority ethnic disadvantage

pp 93-112

six - Corporations as political actors: new perspectives for health policy research

pp 113-128

seven - Square pegs and round holes: extending existing typologies fails to capture the complexities of Chinese social policy

pp 129-148

eight - The Earned Income Tax Credit as an anti-poverty programme: palliative or cure?

pp 149-166

nine - Social policy and culture: the cases of Japan and South Korea

pp 167-182

ten - Load-shedding and reloading: changes in government responsibility – the case of Israeli immigration and integration policy, 2004–10

pp 183-202

Part Three - Themed section: work, employment and insecurity

pp 203-206

eleven - ‘What unemployment means’ three decades and two recessions later

pp 207-226

twelve - Precarious employment and EU employment regulation

pp 227-248

thirteen - How do activation policies affect social citizenship? The issue of autonomy

pp 249-270

fourteen - Modernising social security for lone parents: avoiding fertility and unemployment traps when reforming social policy in Northern Europe

pp 271-292

fifteen - Women, families and the ‘Great Recession’ in the UK

pp 293-314

Index

pp 315-324