Contents

pp iii-iv

List of tables and figures

pp v-vi

Notes on contributors

pp vii-x

Introduction

pp 1-10

Part One - Continuities and change in UK social policy

pp 11-12

one - Britain’s hunger crisis: where’s the social policy?

pp 13-32

two - Social security policy and low wages in austere times

pp 33-54

three - Responsibilisation of everyday life: housing and welfare state change

pp 55-72

four - ‘The end of local government as we know it’ – what next for adult social care?

pp 73-90

Part Two - Contributions from the Social Policy Association Conference 2014

pp 91-92

five - Towards the Welfare Commons: contestation, critique and criticality in social policy

pp 93-112

six - New keys for old doors: breaking the vicious circle connecting homelessness and re-offending

pp 113-130

seven - Embedded neglect, entrenched abuse: market failure and mistreatment in elderly residential care

pp 131-150

eight - What variety of employment service quasi-market? Ireland’s JobPath as a private power market

pp 151-168

Part Three - 25 years after The three worlds of welfare capitalism: a retrospective

pp 169-170

nine - Applying welfare regime ideal types in empirical analysis: the example of activation

pp 171-198

ten - What if we waited a little longer? The dependent variable problem within the comparative analysis of the welfare state revisited

pp 199-224

eleven - The welfare modelling business in the East Asian welfare state debate

pp 225-246

twelve - The role of regime-type analysis in OECD work on social policy and family

pp 247-268

Index

pp 269-278