Available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Leading international experts review recent social policy developments in this latest edition of the longstanding Social Policy Review series.Available Open Access and published in association with the Social Policy Association, this edited book provides a comprehensive review of the past year’s key policy trends and most significant scholarship. Featuring expert contributions around elections, parties and comparative perspect...

Welfare states globally have been subjected to reform agendas that have stressed economic competitiveness but how has global competition reshaped welfare states in practice?Providing a new cross-national and international narrative this book captures the complexity of social policy reform process that have taken place over the past 25 years. Drawing on data relating to multiple countries the authors examine global, cross-national and local cases in order to shed light on the impact...