Peter Taylor-Gooby is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Kent and Director of the ESRC Social Contexts and Responses to Risk network. He is a Founding Academician at ALSiSS, a Fellow of the RSA, recent President of the Sociology and Social Policy Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Co-director of the Risk Research Centre, Beijing Normal University and Chair of the Social Policy and Social Work Research Assessment Exercise Panel.

• Part I Sustaining Social Citizenship in Difficult Times


• 1: Social Citizenship Under Pressure


• 2: Globalisation: New Constraints on Policy-Making


• 3: The Response of Government


• Part II Intellectual Foundations of Reform


• 4: The Assumptive World of Welfare State Reform


• 5: Individual Choice and Social Order


• 6: Rational Actors and Social Citizenship


• Part III A Case-study: the UK as Object Lesson


• 7: Putting the Theory into Practice: the UK Experience


• 8: The NHS Reforms as a Response to First-Order Challenges


• 9: Second-Order Challenges: Disenchantment, Disquiet and Mistrust


• Part IV Conclusions: Strengths and Limitations of Rational Actor Approaches


• 10: Globalisation, Inequality and Diversity


• 11: Welfare Under Altered Circumstances


• Bibliography


• Index

Throughout the world, governments are restructuring social and welfare provision.This book analyses the pressures on social citizenship from changes in work and the family, political actors, an ageing population, and a general backdrop of globalization. It goes on to provocatively critique government's main policy responses.