1st Edition
Social Welfare and the Failure of the State Centralised Social Services and Participatory Alternatives
Originally published in 1981 Social Welfare and the Failure of the State looks at how the 1980s have ushered in an intensification on the debate of the role of the state in social welfare. The book highlights the trends towards centralisation in modern Britain and then provides a critical argument on to new ground. It highlights the trends towards centralisation in modern Britain and then provides a critical analysis of the growth of the social services in the 1960s and 1970s. But its target is the way these services were provided, not the amount of money spent on them. The authors argue that they have grown in the wrong direction.
Preface
1. Introduction
2. The Emergence of the Centralist Faith
3. The Administration of Collectivism
4. The Performance of the Statutory Services
5. Reorganisation: Three Case Studies
6. The Other Three Sectors
7. Representative Democracy
8. After Social Democracy
9. Theory into Practice
10. Toward Alternative Structures
11. On Becoming Keynes’s Grandchildren
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Roger Hadley, Stephen Hatch