Throughout the world, governments are restructuring social and welfare provision.This book analyses the pressures on social citizenship from changes in work and the family, political actors, an ageing population, and a general backdrop of globalization. It goes on to provocatively critique government's main policy responses. INDICE: Part I Sustaining Social Citizenship in Difficult Times; 1: Social Citizenship Under Pressure; 2: Globalisation: New Constraints on Policy-Making; 3: The Response of Government; Part II Intellectual Foundations of Reform; 4: The Assumptive World of Welfare State Reform; 5: Individual Choice and Social Order; 6: Rational Actors and Social Citizenship; Part III A Case-study:the UK as Object Lesson; 7: Putting the Theory into Practice: the UK Experience; 8: The NHS Reforms as a Response to First-Order Challenges; 9: Second-Order Challenges: Disenchantment, Disquiet and Mistrust; Part IV Conclusions: Strengths and Limitations of Rational Actor Approaches; 10: Globalisation, Inequality and Diversity; 11: Welfare Under Altered Circumstances; Bibliography; Index
- ISBN: 978-0-19-954671-8
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 242
- Fecha Publicación: 04/11/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés