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International in perspective, the essays in this volume are
primarily concerned with two facets of the mixed economy of
welfare--charity and mutual aid. Emphasizing the close relationship
between these two elements and the often blurred boundaries between
each of them and commercial provision, contributors raise crucial
questions about the relationship between rights and
responsibilities within the mixed economy of welfare and the ties
which bind both the donors and recipients of charity and the
members of voluntary organisations. The volume critically assesses
the relationships between the statutory and voluntary sectors in a
variety of national settings, including Britain, the United States,
the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Canada, and Germany during the
last two hundred and fifty years, making the book as topical as it
is significant.
This book is about tax and social policy and how they interact with
each other. The impact of taxation as an instrument of social
policy is central in influencing redistribution and behaviour. This
broad-based edited collection fills a significant gap in both
literatures, bringing together disparate debates in this emerging
area of analysis. It guides readers through the key interactions of
tax and social policies and the central debates and challenges
posed by their effect on each other. It examines how analyses might
be combined and policy options developed for more effective
delivery and impact in both areas.
Over the last decade pension reform in the West has focused upon
the need for more private provision in order to combat the effects
of societal ageing. The consequences of these reforms for citizens'
incomes during retirement are currently under-explored - including
questions such as how protective public-private pension systems
are, particularly for citizens without lifelong, full-time
employment biographies. This rigorous study sheds light on these
issues. It assesses the extent to which six European multi-pillar
pension regimes are socially inclusive, by micro-simulating
retirement income for hypothetical citizens facing typical
post-industrial risks. This timely book suggests that non-state
provision has significant limitations, yet also identifies the
political and institutional conditions under which private pensions
are indeed reconcilable with social inclusion. Private Pensions
versus Social Inclusion? will appeal to policymakers, scholars and
experts from NGOs and other statistical organisations involved in
comparative social policy and pension analysis. Post-graduate
students of comparative social policy, gerontology, public
economics and economic sociology will also find much to engage them
within the book.
This book is about tax and social policy and how they interact with
each other. The impact of taxation as an instrument of social
policy is central in influencing redistribution and behaviour. This
broad-based edited collection fills a significant gap in both
literatures, bringing together disparate debates in this emerging
area of analysis. It guides readers through the key interactions of
tax and social policies and the central debates and challenges
posed by their effect on each other. It examines how analyses might
be combined and policy options developed for more effective
delivery and impact in both areas.
International in perspective, the essays in this volume are
primarily concerned with two facets of the mixed economy of
welfare--charity and mutual aid. Emphasizing the close relationship
between these two elements and the often blurred boundaries between
each of them and commercial provision, contributors raise crucial
questions about the relationship between rights and
responsibilities within the mixed economy of welfare and the ties
which bind both the donors and recipients of charity and the
members of voluntary organisations. The volume critically assesses
the relationships between the statutory and voluntary sectors in a
variety of national settings, including Britain, the United States,
the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Canada, and Germany during the
last two hundred and fifty years, making the book as topical as it
is significant.
A fresh investigation of the Labour party's foreign policy in her
formative years, radically revising previous interpretations. This
rich analytical account of the Labour party's foreign policy
between the party's formation and the fall of the first Labour
government in 1924 demonstrates that the party's policy development
during this period was far more sophisticated than has previously
been considered. The party was neither merely the ideological
cipher for ex-Liberals in the Union of Democratic Control; nor did
it enter government devoid of policy ideas. Rather, as the author
shows, the party sought consistently to construct and eventually to
implement a genuinely radical foreign policy. This involved
significant input from the wider labour movement, and was also
influenced at important moments by contacts with the international
socialist movement. Rejecting doctrinally rigid approaches to
Labour policy development, the author demonstrates that many
ideological currents flowed through the early Labour party, and,
crucially, thatone of the strongest traditions influencing the
formation of the party's post-war foreign policy objectives was
Gladstonian internationalism, rather than the anti-war Cobdenite
radicalism of the UDC and its allies. Before the war,Labour is
shown to have been actively engaged in attempts by progressives to
establish ideological links between socialism, radicalism and
liberalism in ways appealing to the new mass electorate.
Thereafter, it built on these traditions to help consolidate its
claim to be the legitimate heir to nineteenth-radical traditions in
foreign policy.
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