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Social Policy Review 16 has been given a new editorial lease of life and has been re-organised to reflect more closely key developments in the UK and internationally.

Social Policy Review 16 is an excellent source of information and opinion about core aspects of contemporary social policy for students and academics alike. It will also appeal to all those with an interest in 'welfare' in the widest sense of the term

Social Policy Review 16 is an excellent source of information and opinion about core aspects of contemporary social policy for students and academics alike. It will also appeal to all those with an interest in 'welfare' in the widest sense of the term.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1 Contexts of social policy -- 1 Social, economic and political contexts -- Features of the post-war British state -- Economic policy 1945-75 -- Social policy 1945-75 -- The demise of welfare statism? -- Prelude: the early 1970s -- 2 Social policy in the 1980s and 1990s -- 1979-93: the new Conservative experiment -- Social policy and new Conservatism: an appraisal -- Part 2 Understanding the state and social policy -- 3 Understanding the modern British State -- The erstwhile orthodoxy: social democracy and the state -- Marxist views of the state -- Marxism and the state: the oil-shock economy -- Radical right views on the state -- Ideas about the state in the 1980s and 1990s -- Conclusion -- 4 Understanding welfare: Pre-Thatcherite social policy -- The social democratic orthodoxy: welfare and bureaucratic collectivism -- Radical challenges to social democracy: the capitalist state and social policy -- Radical challenges to social democracy: social policy and the radical right -- 5 Understanding social policy: Radical challenges to social democracy in the 1980s and 1990s -- The neo-liberal revival? Radical rightism, politics and social policy in the 1980s and 1990s -- Intentions and outcomes -- The objectives of Conservative social policy -- The development of Conservative social policy -- Health policy -- The NHS and the internal market -- Education policy -- Other social policy areas -- Some conclusions -- The new Labourism: the 'citizen' returns -- 6 Changing social services: A study of the demise of old-style social democracy -- Prelude: social work before the welfare state -- The inception of state social work -- The reorganisation of state social work -- Personal social services in the post-war period.