Sarah Nettleton's The Sociology of Health and Illness has become a cornerstone text,
popular with students and academics alike for its rigorous and accessible overview of the …

How can we rethink ideas of policy failure to consider its paradoxes and contradictions as a
starting point for more hopeful democratic encounters? Offering a provocative and …

This unique book enhances our understanding of the links between professions, the state
and the market–and their implications for the public in terms of professional practice. In so …

This book is about power in welfare encounters. Present-day citizens are no longer the
passive clients of the bureaucracy and welfare workers are no longer automatically the …

Meta-governance involves orchestrating the 'rules of the game'in public management. Arm's-
length bodies are particularly important vehicles for this. We consider the case of an arm's …

Long waiting times have been a persistent policy issue in the United Kingdom that the
COVID‐19 pandemic has exacerbated. This study analyses the causal effect of hospital …

A new wave of support for populist parties and movements represents a serious threat to
universal healthcare coverage in traditional liberal democracies and beyond. This article …

The Social Democratic architects of the Swedish welfare state considered public provision
as well as public funding of welfare services essential to realising their egalitarian ambitions …

This book presents a crisis of religion and belief literacy to which education at every level is
challenged to respond. As understanding different religions, beliefs and influences becomes …

The period 2010–2013 was a time of far-reaching structural reforms of the National Health
Service in England. Of particular interest in this paper is the way in which radical critiques of …