Integrating UK and European Social Policy: The Complexity of Europeanisation - Softcover

Geyer, Robert; Mackintosh, Andrew; Lehmann, Kai

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857757645 ISBN 13: 9781857757644

Publisher: Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

The NHS Plan is the 10-year blueprint for investment and NHS, the public, the staff who deliver the services and the managers who plan the future. No part of the NHS is immune from the impact of the plan. This tool kit is a comprehensive guide to the Plan. It assesses its impact and consequences, and discusses the practicalities of implementation and the challenges and opportunities it offers. Key areas in the Plan are analysed including cancer, coronary heart disease, mental health services, waiting lists and revalidation.

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Review

"Gives a valuable theoretical insight into the future possibilities for welfare policy based on greater participant interaction." Dr. Ceri Brown, NHS Modernisation Agency, Leicester "The authors write with engaging clarity and precision, inviting us to look afresh at the intricate politics of EU/UK relations and leading us to a rich and timely understanding of their complex nature." Suzy Braye, Professor of Social Work and Social Care, University of Sussex "Complexity, a buzz word across the whole of science in the early twenty-first century, is now emerging as central theme of social science. Robert Geyer is a key practitioner in the introduction and development of complexity ideas and in this book he makes an important contribution to moving debate forward by taking the framework and showing how it can help use to understand an important contemporary political process. The book should appeal to both those with a general interest in complexity and those who will come to the ideas for the first time through a concern with the politics of contemporary Europe". David Byrne, Professor, School of Applied Social Sciences, University of Durham"

Synopsis

Does the European Union really matter to British policy? For some it is a leading light, for others an irrelevancy. Given the uneven and evolving nature of EU policy, how can we evaluate its overall impact? This book is the first to combine a clear and detailed introduction to the new science of complexity and its application to social policy, Europeanisation, globalisation and the EU-UK relationship. It includes a detailed review of four key policy areas: employment, labour, gender and monetary relations. "Integrating UK and European Social Policy" provides groundbreaking reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of politics, history, international relations, economics, social policy and applied social science. It is also useful for academics with an interest in European social policy, and policy makers and shapers, including government and non-government organisations.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1857757645
• ISBN 13: 9781857757644
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216