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Social Issues and Party Politics

Book information

Year
1998
ISBN
0415174287, 9780415174282
LCC
HN383.5 .S56 1998
Open Library ID
OL697579M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2026317 bytes)
Pages
304\300
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

After the landslide election of a new Labour government in May 1997, what are the key social policy issues and problems which the new government needs to address? Social Issues and Party Politics looks at the manifestos of the main parties and the way social issues figured in the 1997 election campaign and the early days of the new government. Chapters discuss green issues, the management and financing of welfare in contemporary Britain, the delivery of key services in health, education, employment, criminal justice, housing, personal social services, pensions and other areas of social security. The particular circumstances of Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales are also examined. Social Issues and Party Politics takes social policy beyond the soundbite and provides a convincing and incisive analysis of current social policy approaches and inherited problems. It identifies the deep social questions which will need to be addressed if Labour is to deliver on its promise of a new Britain.

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