Contents

pp iii-iv

List of tables and figures

pp v-vi

Notes on contributors

pp vii-x

40th anniversary preface

pp xi-xviii

Introduction

pp 1-12

Part One - Current developments

pp 13-14

one - Universal Credit: overview and gender implications

pp 15-34

two - Family support and the Coalition: retrenchment, refocusing and restructuring

pp 35-54

three - Housing, the welfare state and the Coalition government

pp 55-76

four - The 2012/13 reforms of higher education in England: changing student finances and funding

pp 77-96

five - Division and opposition: the Health and Social Care Bill 2011

pp 97-114

Part Two - Social policy in the developed and developing worlds

pp 115-116

six - Immigrant-targeted activation policies: a comparison of the approaches in the Scandinavian welfare states

pp 117-136

seven - Welfare retrenchment under Left and Right government leadership: towards a consolidated framework of analysis?

pp 137-164

eight - From black hole to spring: the coming of age of social policy in the Arab countries?

pp 165-182

nine - China’s developmental model in Africa: a new era for global social policy?

pp 183-202

Part Three - Severe crisis: social policy in most challenging circumstances

pp 203-204

ten - The Greek welfare state in the age of austerity: anti-social policy and the politico-economic crisis

pp 205-230

eleven - From opportunity to austerity: crisis and social policy in Spain

pp 231-256

twelve - From financial crisis to welfare retrenchment: assessing the challenges to the Irish welfare state

pp 257-276

thirteen - The Great Recession and US social policy: from expansion to austerity

pp 277-296

fourteen - Seeking refuge in the Nordic model: social policy in Iceland after 2008

pp 297-318

Index

pp 319-326