Social Policy and Welfare Pluralism : : Selected Writings of Robert Pinker / / ed. by John Offer, Robert Pinker.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Offer, John,; Pinker, Robert,
• HerausgeberIn: Offer, John,; Pinker, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)

Robert Pinker has written extensively on social policy matters since the early 1960s. His distinct approach to understanding concepts such as welfare pluralism is of particular relevance today as welfare pluralism remains an essential component of the policy mix, giving people access to a greater range and diversity of statutory, voluntary, and private sector services than unitary models of welfare provide. Social Policy and Welfare Pluralism presents the first collection of Robert Pinker’s essays in one edited volume. It includes essays on the ways in which welfare theories and ideologies and public expectations have influenced and shaped the political processes of policy making. Other essays focus on clarifying some of the key concepts that underpin the study of social policy. Pinker also reviews the extent to which the United Kingdom has succeeded in creating a ‘policy mix’ in which normative compromises are negotiated between the claims of market individualism and public sector collectivism. The concluding chapter by Robert Pinker reviews the prospects for social policy in the UK over the next five years.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgement -- Preface -- Robert Pinker on rethinking approaches to welfare -- On social policy studies -- The ends and means of social policy: a personal and generational perspective -- Social theory and social policy: a challenging relationship -- Stigma and social welfare -- The welfare state: a comparative perspective -- Richard Titmuss and the making of British social policy studies after the Second World War: a reappraisal -- On social care, communities and the conditions for well-being -- Report of the Working Party on the Role and Tasks of Social Workers: an alternative view -- The quest for community: From the Settlement Movement to the Griffiths Report: an historical perspective -- Citizenship, civil war and welfare: the making of modern Ireland -- On welfare pluralism -- Golden Ages and welfare alchemists -- From gift relationships to quasi-markets: an odyssey along the policy paths of altruism and egoism -- The experience of citizenship: a generational perspective -- The right to welfare -- The prospects for social policy in the UK after the 2015 General Election -- On the post-Brexit prospects for social policy in the UK -- References -- Index