Two-thirds of UK government spending now goes on the welfare state and where the money
is spent–healthcare, education, pensions, benefits–is the centre of political and public …

This book investigates why people are willing to support an institutional arrangement that
realises large-scale redistribution of wealth between social groups of society. Steffen Mau …

The Blair government is much less novel and distinctive than has been assumed by most
commentators who have, Steven Fielding argues, taken too much of its rhetoric at face …

This book is about inequality, how the State affects distribution through its spending
programmes and through taxation, and what the public thinks of these three issues. It …

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When New Labour came to power in 1997, its leaders asked for it to be judged after ten
years on its success in making Britain'a more equal society'. As it approaches the end of an …

This article represents an attempt to make sense of the contradictions and tensions in the
New Labour welfare project. It argues that these can be understood as the product of two …

This book explores the relationship between economic liberalism and social policy in
Australia. How do social policies operate in a fiercely individualist market economy, and …

Public attitudes to economic inequality Page 1 Public attitudes to economic inequality Michael
Orton and Karen Rowlingson This report reviews public attitudes to economic inequality …

Abstract This paper examines New Labour's social security and related policies since 1997
in the light of evidence on public attitudes. The list of measures where policies have been in …