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28th May 2010

Modernising the welfare state, edited by Martin Powell

Policy Press, 2008, x + 290 pp, pbk, 1 847 420398, £24.99, hbk 1 847 420404, £65 This edited collection examines the main changes to the welfare state since New Read More

28th April 2010

Work after Globalization: Building Occupational Citizenship, by Guy Standing

Edward Elgar, 2009, xi + 366 pp, hb, 1 84844 164 4, £89.95 This is an important book with a monumental scope. Guy Standing reviews the sweep of labour conditions Read More

28th April 2010

Institutions for Social Well-Being: Alternatives for Europe, edited by Lilia Costabile

Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, xiii + 242 pp, hbk 0 230 538061, £58 This book tackles an important question: Do social protections, such as free education and health care, state pensions Read More

28th April 2010

Governance of Welfare State Reform: A Cross National and Cross Sectoral Comparison of Policy and Politics, by Irene Dingeldey and Heinz Rothgang

Edward Elgar, 2009, vi + 263 pp, hbk 1 84720 143 0, £65 The editors of this diverse and interesting collection of essays have focused on three questions: ‘How are Read More

28th March 2010

Understanding the Compliance Costs of Benefits and Tax Credits, by Fran Bennett, Mike Brewer and Jonathan Shaw

Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2009, 107 pp, pbk 1 903274 62 0, £40 The authors describe their research project’s aims: This report describes a scoping study to understand more about Read More

28th March 2010

Making policy in theory and practice, edited by Hugh Bochel and Sue Duncan

Policy Press, 2007, ix + 251, pp, pbk, 1 861 349033, £24.99, hbk 1 861 349040, £65 In the introduction to this important book by policy-makers and academics, the editors Read More

28th March 2010

The Economics of Social Protection, by Lars Söderström

Edward Elgar, 2008, xi + 180, pp, hbk 1 847 202390, £49.95 Söderström understands social protection as provision for consumption needs when for various reasons (unemployment, illness, childhood, old age) Read More

28th March 2010

Pensions and Population Ageing, by John Creedy

Edward Elgar, 1998, xv + 239 pp, hbk 1 858 988020, £68 The Pensions Commission has come and gone, and Adair Turner has wondered publicly whether he ought to have Read More

28th February 2010

Gender and the politics of time, by Valerie Bryson

Policy Press, 2007, vi + 222 pp, pbk, 1 861 347497, £24.99, hbk 1 861 347503, £60 Our awareness of time is socially constructed, and in modern capitalist society we Read More

28th February 2010

Policy reconsidered, edited by Susan M. Hodgson and Zoe Irving

Policy Press, 2007, vi + 250 pp, pbk, 1 861 349125, £24.99, hbk 1 861 349132, £65 ‘What is policy?’ (p.22). It is with such fundamental questions in mind that Read More