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The State of Welfare - The Economics of Social Spending (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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The State of Welfare - The Economics of Social Spending (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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A careful and precise presentation, from leading experts in the
field, of the development of the welfare state in the UK. Looking
at both historical processes and the welfare systems current state,
these excellent contributors provide an authoritative analysis,
packed with data. The United Kingdom had one of the oldest and most
extensive welfare states in the world. The economic crisis of 1976
and eighteen years of Conservative Government have tested the
welfare system to its very foundations. Much changed, yet much
remained the same after two decades. Did the Conservative
Government dismember the welfare state or reform it? Did the
changes of the past twenty years make any difference and to whom?
This second edition of the widely-acclaimed State of Welfare
reviews the changing fate of social policy in the years since 1974.
It details changes in policy but also charts trends in spending in
real terms over the period and analyses the outcomes of spending on
education, the National Health Service, the personal social
services, housing and social security. There is no other consistent
published time series of spending on these services over this
period in real and volume terms. The General Household Survey is
re-analysed to produce a common source of information on the way
changes in these services have affected families. Other available
sources of information on the impact of past government reforms are
drawn upon to provide a comprehensive account. This completely
revised edition uses the successful framework adopted in the first
volume to bring the story up to the end of the Conservative
Administration with the latest available expenditure figures. This
adds nearly a decade to the account detailed in the first edition -
a decade of remarkable change. The book is clearly structured, with
core chapters covering each of the five service areas of education,
health, housing, personal social services and social security, and
a concluding chapter summarising the key findings of previous
chapters to provide an overview of the current state of welfare.
Each chapter is then subdivided, with sections on the ultimate aims
of welfare policy in the particular area covered, public
expenditure, the outputs for that spending, and the outcomes in
terms of indicators of individual welfare. Each chapter is
summarised in an in brief section at the end, and has a further
reading list. Illustrated with approximately 150 figures and
tables, the book presents a substantial amount of quantitative
information (much of which comes from Local and Central Government
sources) in accessible formats. The book contains a substantial
bibliography, including many government papers as well as published
books and journal articles. The book can therefore be used as a
bibliographical database, besides functioning as a textbook. The
State of Welfare functions as an ideal text for public economics
students, or those studying social or public policy.
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