This spirited and informed collection of papers by leading analysts addresses key questions related to welfare, citizenship and risk including: the nature of insecurity and social protection; the balance between inequality and egalitarianism; the relationship between governments and citizens; the parameters of citizenship; and the impact of risk assessment and risk management.

Edwards, Rosalind; Glover, Judith

1. Risk, Citizenship and Welfare: Introduction 2. Social Insecurity and Social Protection 3. Transparent and Messy Contracts - How Do They Serve Social Security? 4. Live and Let Love? Reflections on the Unfinished Sexual Revolution of our Times 5. Widening the Scope of Social Policy: Families, Financial Services and the Impact of Technology 6. Complex Inequalities - Redistribution, Class and Gender 7. 'Work for Those Who Can, Security for Those Who Cannot': A Third Way in Social Security Reform or Fractured Social Citizenship 8. Managing the Risk of Unemployment: Is Welfare Restructuring Undermining Support for Social Security? 9. Managing the Body: Competing Approaches to Risk Assessment in Community Care 10. Social Insecurity and the Informal Economy: Survival Strategies on a South London Estate 11. Social Capital and Waves of Innovation in the Risk Society