Welfare policy under New Labour : : Views from inside Westminster / / Hugh Bochel, Andrew Defty.
Based on an extensive series of interviews with MPs and Peers from across Parliament, the book traces the dynamics of political debate on welfare both between and within parties; assesses the emergence of a new political consensus on welfare; details the welfare policy environment and the reform of...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2007] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Continuity and change: the politics of welfare under New Labour
- A declining force? Parliament under Blair
- Towards a new consensus? MPs’ attitudes to welfare
- MPs’ attitudes to welfare and public opinion
- A more assertive chamber: the House of Lords and the scrutiny of welfare
- ‘Exercising influence and setting limits’: MPs’ influence on welfare policy
- Conclusions
- References
- Index