The Centre-Left and New Right Divide: Political Philosophy and Aspects of Uk Social Policy in the Era of the Welfare State - Couverture rigide

Smith, Steven R.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1840143274 ISBN 13 : 9781840143270

Editeur : Ashgate Publishing Limited, 1998

Synopsis

Academic explanations of the resilience of the welfare state in the face of the New Right reforms have focused on the social, political and economic processes that tend to bolster the activities of state welfare provision. Alternatively, this book provides an account within the Anglo-American analytical political philosophy of the role that value commitments have played in the development of the post-1945 British social policy. Attention will not only be paid to the relationship between the New Right and Centre Left positions regarding the welfare state, but in the process philosophical solutions will be offered to some of the problems associated with moving from philosophical generality to the specific social policy. Both these levels of analysis will be combined in order to offer a normative explanation of the resilience of the welfare state. These findings will then be related to the contemporary debates regarding the modernization of the British Labour Party and recent Conservative Governments' reconstruction of the welfare state.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ashgate Publishing Limited
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1840143274
• ISBN 13: 9781840143270
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 298
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible