Constructing the Welfare State in the British Press

Constructing the Welfare State in the British Press

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  • Author: Malgorzata Paprota
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 1350125326
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 240

Analysing political discourse in the British press during a time of crisis and austerity, this book examines how the concept of the welfare state has been constructed between 2008 and 2015. At a time when the financial crisis and government policies have put the welfare state under increased pressure, a corpus from four British newspapers from across the political spectrum - the Guardian, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail, and Daily Telegraph - is brought together to investigate the political debate on its evaluation and the ambiguity about its exact definition. Combining two theoretical approaches, Malgorzata Paprota outlines the figurative models and scenarios relevant to this element of the political system. The discourse-historical approach to discourse analysis is used to establish what the welfare state is, tracing the boundaries of the concept and which elements of political reality are explicitly associated with it. Conceptual metaphor theory is then used to explore the figurative conceptualisations of the welfare state. Together, this book shows the discursive construction, and shifting boundaries and metaphors, of the welfare state by the British press and its use in current political debates.


The Development of the British Welfare State

The Development of the British Welfare State

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  • Author: Michael Sullivan
  • Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
  • ISBN:
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 316

The Development of the British Welfare State is divided into three parts, allowing for use on both chronological and service-based courses: Part I provides a chronological overview of the development of the welfare state from its origins in the nineteenth century to the present day; Part II concentrates on the history of the five main welfare service sectors: health, education, personal social services, housing and social security.


The Origins of the British Welfare State

The Origins of the British Welfare State

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  • Author: Bernard Harris
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 1137079800
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 402

Over the last 200 years Britain has witnessed profound changes in the nature and extent of state welfare. Drawing on the latest historical and social science research The Origins of the British Welfare State looks at the main developments in the history of social welfare provision in this period. It looks at the nature of problems facing British society in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries and shows how these provided the foundation for the growth of both statutory and welfare provision in the areas of health, housing, education and the relief of poverty. It also examines the role played by the Liberal government of 1906-14 in reshaping the boundaries of public welfare provision and shows how the momentous changes associated with the First and Second World Wars paved the way for the creation of the 'classic' welfare state after 1945. This comprehensive and broad-ranging yet accessible account encourages the reader to question the 'inevitability' of present-day arrangements and provides an important framework for comparative analysis. It will be essential reading for all concerned with social policy, British social history and public policy.


Inside the Welfare State

Inside the Welfare State

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  • Author: Virginia Noble
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9780415807838
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 182

Focusing on the politicized mechanisms of welfare distribution in post-World War Two Britain, this study demonstrates how gender and race determined the quality and quantity of benefits received by Britons seeking state aid. Scholars of public policy, law, and political history will be interested by Noble's findings and theoretical implications.


Poor News

Poor News

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  • Author: Dr. Steven Harkins
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
  • ISBN: 1783489286
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 208

Poor News examines the way discourses of poverty are articulated in the news media by incorporating specific narratives and definers that bring about certain ideological worldviews.


Social Construction of Gender Inequality in the Housing System

Social Construction of Gender Inequality in the Housing System

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  • Author: Paul Pennartz
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 0429797826
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 232

First published in 1997, this volume recognises the issue of gender inequality in Hong Kong housing. The invisibility of the housing problem is compounded by the dominant patriarchal Chinese culture in Hong Kong. The issue remains marginal in Western countries as well, despite increasing concern. Kam Wah Chan makes meaningful, insightful progress on the housing issue in Hong Kong by focusing on the crucial issues of housing for lone mothers and for women in new towns.


The Welfare State

The Welfare State

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  • Author: Pauline Gregg
  • Publisher: London : Harrap
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Great Britain
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 408

Contemporary historical study of the development of social policy in the UK since 1945 and of political aspects, social implications and economic implications of government policy resulting in the welfare state - covers social security, nationalization (incl. Of transport and iron and steel industries and health services), public enterprises, the population explosion and the standard of living, cultural changes, etc. Statistical tables, and bibliography pp. 368 to 376.


The Discursive Construction of Economic Inequality

The Discursive Construction of Economic Inequality

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  • Author: Eva M. Gomez-Jimenez
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 1350111295
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 248

This book analyses diverse public discourses to investigate how wealth inequality has been portrayed in the British media from the time of the Second World War to the present day. Using a variety of corpus-assisted methods of discourse analysis, chapters present an historicized perspective on how the mass media have helped to make sharply increased wealth inequality seem perfectly normal. Print, radio and online media sources are interrogated using methodologies grounded in critical discourse analysis, critical stylistics and corpus linguistics in order to examine the influence of the media on the British electorate, who have passively consented to the emergence of an even less egalitarian Britain. Covering topics such as Second World War propaganda, the 'Change4Life' anti-obesity campaign and newspaper, parliamentary and TV news programme attitudes to poverty and austerity, this book will be of value to all those interested in the mass media's contribution to the entrenched inequality in modern Britain.


Building the Compensatory State

Building the Compensatory State

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  • Author: Robert F. Durant
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1000586871
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 339

Contemporary public administration research has marginalized the importance of “taking history seriously.” With few exceptions, little recent scholarship in the field has looked longitudinally (rather than cross-sectionally), contextually, and theoretically over extended time periods at “big questions” in public administration. One such “big question” involves the evolution of American administrative reform and its link since the nation’s founding to American state building. This book addresses this gap by analyzing administrative reform in unprecedented empirical and theoretical ways. In taking a multidisciplinary approach, it incorporates recent developments in cognate research fields in the humanities and social sciences that have been mostly ignored in public administration. It thus challenges existing notions of the nature, scope, and power of the American state and, with these, important aspects of today’s conventional wisdom in public administration. Author Robert F. Durant explores the administrative state in a new light as part of a “compensatory state”—driven, shaped, and amplified since the nation’s founding by a corporate–social science nexus of interests. Arguing that this nexus of interests has contributed to citizen estrangement in the United States, he offers a broad empirical and theoretical understanding of the political economy of administrative reform, its role in state building, and its often paradoxical results. Offering a reconsideration of conventional wisdom in public administration, this book is required reading for all students, scholars, or practitioners of public administration, public policy, and politics.


Childhood And Society

Childhood And Society

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  • Author: Lee, Nick
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
  • ISBN: 0335206085
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 175

Childhood and Society charts the emergence of the conceptual and institutional divisions between adult 'human beings' and child 'human beings' over the course of the modern era.