The left after social democracy: towards state-society partnerships
Dissatisfaction with the UK's social democratic welfare state was not confined to critics from the right in the years when Thatcherism was in the ascendant. This paper examines how a range of thinkers on the left (Colin Ward, Sheila Rowbotham, Stuart Hall, Paul Hirst, and Hilary Wainwright) dev...
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Palgrave Macmillan
2016
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| Summary: | Dissatisfaction with the UK's social democratic welfare state was not confined to critics from the right in the years when Thatcherism was in the ascendant. This paper examines how a range of thinkers on the left (Colin Ward, Sheila Rowbotham, Stuart Hall, Paul Hirst, and Hilary Wainwright) developed a distinctive left critique of the welfare state. It discusses how they envisaged transforming the welfare state, notably through the creation of state-society partnerships that would democratise the provision of public services. |
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