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1. Welfare and the State

   Edited by Nicholas Deakin, Catherine Jones Finer, Bob Matthews

   Series: Critical Concepts in Political Science

   One of the most contested issues of the 20th century is that of welfare - how it should be available, to whom, on what terms and by what means. The debate on welfare has taken place across the developed world, and has spread to developing nations: it encompasses a wide range of ideological...

   Published November 5th 2003 by Routledge
2. Origins of the Welfare State

   Edited by Nicholas Deakin

   Consisting of both shorter pieces and reprints of entire books, this set restores to circulation a number of key texts from the debate about the future of welfare that took place in Britain following the depression.The collection covers the following areas:* The period during which the country felt...

   Published April 26th 2000 by Routledge
3. The Enterprise Culture and the Inner City

   By Nicholas Deakin, John Edwards

   Throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, policy for inner city regeneration underwent a transformation from a reliance on central and local government activity and the use of public funds, to a much heavier dependence on private sector activities and private investment. In The Enterprise Culture...

   Published May 19th 1993 by Routledge
4. Consuming Public Services

   Edited by Nicholas Deakin, Anthony Wright

   The public services are now at the centre of political debate in Britain: the National Health Service, education, housing, transport, social services, planning and the police are all matters of wide public and academic concern. So far the initiative in this debate has come overwhelmingly from the...

   Published January 24th 1990 by Routledge