Contents

pp iii-iv

Notes on contributors

pp v-vi

Introduction

pp 1-12

Part One - Current services

pp 13-14

one - Social security and welfare reform under New Labour

pp 15-32

two - New Labour’s education policy: innovation or reinvention?

pp 33-50

three - Transforming the NHS: the story in 2004

pp 51-68

four - Housing in an ‘opportunity society’

pp 69-84

five - Personal Social Services

pp 85-104

Part Two - Current issues

pp 105-106

six - Governance and social policy in Northern Ireland (1999-2004): the devolution years and postscript

pp 107-124

seven - At home abroad: the presidential election of 2004, the politics of American social policy and what European readers might make of these subjects

pp 125-146

eight - The future of healthcare in the UK: think-tanks and their policy prescriptions

pp 147-166

nine - Consumerism and the reform of public services: inequalities and instabilities

pp 167-182

ten - The challenges of measuring government output in the healthcare sector

pp 183-202

eleven - Social investment perspectives and practices: a decade in British politics

pp 203-230

Part Three - New Labour

pp 231-232

twelve - A rootless third way: a continental European perspective on New Labour’s welfare state, revisited

pp 233-254

thirteen - Welfare after Thatcherism: New Labour and social democratic politics

pp 255-272

fourteen - A progressive consensus in the making?

pp 273-288

fifteen - New Labour’s family policy

pp 289-302

Index

pp 303-314