Social Policy Review 27

Dr Zoe Irving is a Senior Lecturer at the University of York and a member of the Executive Committee of the UK Social Policy Association. Published works surrounding Social Policy, gender employment and economic crises. Professor of Social Policy, University of York

"A one-stop shop for key contemporary social policy debates, along with a timely retrospective on the 'three worlds of welfare capitalism'. Essential reading for all those interested in social policy." Karen Rowlingson, Birmingham University

• Part One: Continuities and change in UK social policy;Britain’s hunger crisis: where’s the social policy? ~ Hannah Lambie-Mumford;Social security policy and low wages in austere times ~ Chris Grover;Responsibilisation of everyday life: housing and welfare state change ~ Stuart Lowe and Jed Meers;‘The end of local government as we know it’ – what next for adult social care? ~ Jon Glasby;Part Two: Contributions from the Social Policy Association Conference 2014;Towards the Welfare Commons: contestation, critique and criticality in social policy ~ Fiona Williams;New keys for old doors: breaking the vicious circle connecting homelessness and reoffending ~ Graham Bowpitt;Embedded neglect, entrenched abuse: market failure and mistreatment in elderly residential care ~ Joe Greener;What variety of employment service quasi-market? Ireland’s JobPath as a private power market ~ Jay Wiggan;Part Three: 25 years after The three worlds of welfare capitalism: a retrospective;Applying welfare regime ideal types in empirical analysis: the example of activation ~ Deborah Rice;What if we waited a little longer? The dependent variable problem: within the comparative analysis ofthe welfare state revisited ~ Stefan Kühner;The welfare modelling business in the East Asian welfare state debate ~ Gyu-Jin Hwang;The role of regime-type analysis in OECD work on social policy and family ~ Dominic Richardson.