The Conservative Governments and Social Policy

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-4473-6582-2
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 358 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 676 g

Focusing on the policy approaches of Conservative governments since 2015, this book examines key social policy areas including education, health, housing, employment, children and young people, and more.

Respected social policy researchers explore the degree to which the positions and policies of recent Conservative governments have differed from the previous Coalition government (2010–15). They consider the extent to which austerity has continued and the influence of other policy emphases, such as a ‘levelling up’ agenda. Reflecting on the rapid changes of Prime Minister, they compare the themes of the Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak administrations, critically examine the impacts of the external shocks of Brexit and COVID-19, and the changing patterns of public expenditure.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bochel, Hugh

Powell, Martin

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ellison, Nick

Greener, Ian

Squires, Peter

Daguerre, Anne

Etherington, David

Bochel, Catherine

Gillies, Val

Edwards, Rosalind

Ball, Stephen J.

Churchill, Harriet

Defty, Andrew

Corbett, Steven

Glasby, Jon

Gray, Ann Marie

McKay, Stephen D.

Rowlingson, Karen

Rummery, Kirstein

Somerville, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Konservativismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Verwaltungswissenschaft, Öffentliche Verwaltung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: The Conservative Governments From Cameron to Sunak (2015–23) – Hugh Bochel and Martin Powell

2. The Conservatives and Public Spending Since 2015 – Nick Ellison

3. Turning Up the Thermostat: The Conservatives, Social Policy and Public Opinion – Andrew Defty

4. Brexit and the Conservative Party’s Social Policies – Steven Corbett

5. The Johnson Conservative Government, Its Conservatism and the Pandemic Response – Ian Greener

6. The Governance of Social Policy Under the Conservatives – Catherine Bochel and Hugh Bochel

7. Conservative Health Policy, 2015–23 – Martin Powell

8. The Less Things Change: Conservatism, COVID-19 and Incoherence in Education Policy – Stephen J. Ball

9. Conservative Housing Policy in England – Peter Somerville

10. Social Security Policies Under the Conservatives 2015–22: Austerity, COVID-19, and the Living Cost Crisis – Stephen McKay and Karen Rowlingson

11. Labour Market Strategies and Welfare Policies: The Conservative Record – Anne Daguerre and David Etherington

12. The Conservatives and Adult Social Care – Jon Glasby

13. The Conservatives, Family Policy and the Data Revolution – Val Gillies and Rosalind Edwards

14. Troubling Social Policy During Turbulent Times: Children and UK Conservative Governments Since 2015 – Harriet Churchill

15. Conservative Criminal Justice: A Strange Rediscovery of ‘Law and Order’ Politics – Peter Squires

16. Equalities and The Conservatives: The Widening of Social Divisions – Kirstein Rummery

17. The Conservative Governments, Devolution and Social Policy – Ann Marie Gray

18. Conclusions – Hugh Bochel and Martin Powell

Über Autor(innen)

Edwards, Rosalind
Rosalind Edwards is Professor of Sociology at the University of Southampton, where she is also Social Sciences Director of Research and a Co-Director of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods.

Rowlingson, Karen
Karen Rowlingson is Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Centre on Household Assets and Savings Management (CHASM) at the University of Birmingham. Her research interests include personal finance and inequality.

Powell, Martin
Martin Powell is a Professor of Health and Social Policy at the University of Birmingham. Martin’s main research interest is in the British welfare state, especially the NHS. He has written or edited some 19 books, including some being translated into Chinese, Korean, and Polish. He has written over 80 peer reviewed articles, and he is a former editor of the journal ‘Social Policy and Administration’.

Ellison, Nick
Nick Ellison is Senior Lecturer and Head of Department of the Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Durham.

Glasby, Jon
Jon Glasby is Professor of Health and Social Care and Head of the School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham. A qualified social worker by background, he has been a board member of the Social Care Institute for Excellence, is NHS Non-Executive Director and sits on the Board of Birmingham Children’s Trust.

Gray, Ann Marie
Ann Marie Gray is Professor of Social Policy at Ulster University and Co-Director of ARK.

Greener, Ian
Ian Greener is Head of Social Science at the University of Aberdeen.

Gillies, Val
Val Gillies is Professor of Social Policy/Criminology at the University of Westminster. She researches in the area of family, social class, marginalised children and young people, and historical comparative analysis.

Etherington, David
David Etherington is Professor of Local and Regional Economic Development at Staffordshire University. His research focuses on the political economy of welfare reform and employment relations in the UK and Nordic countries.

Daguerre, Anne
Anne Daguerre is Associate Professor in Work Employment and Welfare, Business School, Middlesex University, London, and an alumna of the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Washington DC.

Ball, Stephen J.
Stephen J Ball is Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology of Education at the University College London, Institute of Education. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2006; and is also Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences; and Society of Educational Studies, and a Laureate of Kappa Delta Phi; he has honorary doctorates from the Universities of Turku (Finland), and Leicester. He is co-founder and Managing Editor of the Journal of Education Policy. His main areas of interest are in sociologically informed education policy analysis and the relationships between education, education policy and social class. He has written 20 books and had published over 140 journal articles. Recent books: Edu.Net (Routledge 2017) and Foucault as Educator (Springer 2017).

Bochel, Catherine
Catherine Bochel is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy in the Department of Policy Studies, University of Lincolnshire and Humberside

Rummery, Kirstein
Kirstein Rummery is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Stirling, the co-director of the Centre on Gender and Feminist Studies and a senior fellow of the Centre on Constitutional Change.

McKay, Stephen D.
Stephen McKay is Professor of Social Research in the School of Social Policy at the University of Birmingham. He has particular expertise in the secondary analysis of complex datasets in relation to, social security, inequality and wealth.

Bochel, Hugh
Hugh Bochel is Emeritus Professor of Public Policy in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Lincoln.

Hugh Bochel is Emeritus Professor of Public Policy at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lincoln.

Martin Powell is Professor of Health and Social Policy at the Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham.