The Social Ambitions of the Current Government
Professor Peter Taylor-Gooby
Monday 28 February 2011,
15.00, Committee Room 1
The 2010 Conservative government is seeking to advance a radical and ambitious social programme. This paper
– describes the main features of the new policies;
– considers whether they are driven by ideology or by the normal politics of gaining and retaining power; and
– discusses how they are likely to develop during the next four years.
It draws on ‘The Coalition Programme: a new vision for Britain or politics as usual?’, Peter Taylor-Gooby and Gerry Stoker, The Political Quarterly, vol. 82, no. 1, 2011
Peter Taylor-Gooby’s recent publications include Reframing Social Citizenship (Oxford 2009), Risk in Social Science, (with Jens Zinn, Oxford 2006) and New Risks, New Welfare (Oxford 2004). he directed the ESRC Social Contexts and Responses to Risk and Economic Beliefs and Behaviour programmes and the EU Welfare Reform and the Management of Societal Change programme. He chairs the Social Policy and Social Work REF Panel.
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