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.

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• 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

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.

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• 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

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.

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• 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