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Throughout the world, governments are restructuring social and welfare provision. This book analyses the pressures on social citizenship from changes in work and the family, political actors, an ageing population, and a general backdrop of globalization.
Social citizenship under pressure -- Globalisation: new constraints on policy-making -- The response of government -- The assumptive world of welfare state reform -- Individual choice and social order -- Rational actors and social citizenship -- Putting the theory into practice: the UK experience -- The NHS reforms as a response to first-order challenges -- Second-order challenges: disenchantment, disquiet and mistrust -- Globalisation, inequality and diversity -- Welfare under altered circumstances.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009