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SPDO Research Note

The post war welfare state: stages and disputes

Howard Glennerster

It has been suggested that the COVID epidemic, and its profound economic and social consequences, may produce major changes in the dominant ideas that help set the boundaries to social action. This note reflects on sig...Read more...

12 August 2020

WSP Discussion Paper

How Much Do We Care? A Comment on the Government's Community Care Proposals (Social Policy and Administration, 24:2, 93-103, Aug 1990)

Maria Evandrou, Jane Falkingham and Howard Glennerster

WSP Discussion Paper

Working for Patients? The Right Approach? (Social Policy and Administration, 23:2, Aug 1989)

Nicholas Barr, Howard Glennerster and Julian Le Grand

January

WSP Discussion Paper

A New Era for Social Policy: A New Enlightenment or a New Leviathan? (Journal of Social Policy, 20:3, 389-414, July 1991)

Howard Glennerster, Anne Power and Tony Travers

January

WSP Discussion Paper

Research Directions on the Future of the Welfare State: a View from Social Administration

Howard Glennerster

WSP Discussion Paper

The Development of Quasi-markets in Welfare Provision. Now published in International Journal of Health Services 25 (2), 1995

Howard Glennerster and Julian Le Grand

January

WSP Discussion Paper

Investigating Welfare: Final Report of the ESRC Welfare Research Programme

Howard Glennerster, John Hills and Julian Le Grand

CASEpaper

Richard Titmuss: Forty years on

Howard Glennerster

Richard Titmuss was one of the world’s leading public analysts and philosophers. He was highly influential in shaping the post-war welfare state and created the subject we now call social policy. What would he make of th...Read more...

18 February 2014

CASEbrief

Wealth distribution, accumulation and policy

Francesca Bastagli, Frank A Cowell, Howard Glennerster, John Hills, Eleni Karagiannaki and Abigail McKnight

3 June 2013

CASEpaper

A Wealth Tax Abandoned: The role of the UK Treasury 1974-6

Howard Glennerster

The distribution of wealth is widening in many countries and with it the importance of inherited wealth. In 1974 a Labour Government came to power in the United Kingdom committed to introducing an annual wealth tax. It l...Read more...

June 2011

CASEpaper

Reducing the Risks to Health: The role of social protection Report of the Social Protection Task Group for the Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England Post 2010

Howard Glennerster

We demonstrate that the introduction of social protection systems as well as their generosity and coverage have significant impacts on health. Who receives the benefits within the household affects the health outcomes fo...Read more...

June 2009

CASEpaper

Tibor Barna: The redistributive impact of taxes and social policies in the UK: 1937-2005

Howard Glennerster

Regular annual studies made by the Office of National Statistics in the UK are intended to show how far taxing household incomes and giving benefits in cash and kind to households redistributes income from rich to poor. ...Read more...

December 2006

CASEpaper

United Kingdom Education 1997-2001

Howard Glennerster

This paper reviews the achievements of the Labour Government's education policy between 1997 and 2001. Tony Blair claimed that his Government would make education a priority. The first part of the paper reviews the scale...Read more...

November 2001

CASEpaper

US Poverty Studies and Poverty Measurement: The past 25 years

Howard Glennerster

This paper discusses the contribution made by American social scientists to the study of poverty in the past twenty five years. It has three parts. The first concentrates on the measurement of poverty and the fact that t...Read more...

October 2000

CASEpaper

Poverty, Social Exclusion and Neighbourhood: Studying the area bases of social exclusion

Howard Glennerster, Ruth Lupton, Philip Noden and Anne Power

Are-based policies have become a significant part of the new Labour Government's approach to tackling social exclusion. This paper reviews the long-running debate about whether area-based policies can make a significant ...Read more...

March 1999