This book explores the complex relationship between public policy and scandal. By critically examining some of the landmark scandals of the postwar period, using a variety of contemporary records and by close examination of the public inquiries which followed, this book describes the process whereby
Social Policy, Social Welfare and Scandal: How British Public Policy is Made
✍ Scribed by Ian Butler, Mark Drakeford (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 256
- Category
- Library
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✦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Scandal....Pages 1-5
‘Gothic Nightmare’....Pages 6-29
‘The Corruption of Care’....Pages 30-55
‘Household Happiness, Gracious Children’....Pages 56-75
The Story of ‘Cinderella’....Pages 76-102
‘Mere Oblivion’....Pages 103-129
‘Carnage in the Community’....Pages 130-156
‘An Ambience of Uneasiness’....Pages 157-180
‘A Narrow, Punitive and Harshly Restrictive Experience’....Pages 181-204
Scandal, Welfare and Public Policy....Pages 205-225
Back Matter....Pages 226-244
✦ Subjects
Politics of the Welfare State; British Politics; Ethics; Social Care; Political Science; Social Policy
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