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ISBN 978 1 84742 432 7 paperback
ISBN 978 1 84742 433 4 hardcover

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Contents

Hugh Bochel

Robert M. Page

Nick Ellison

Andrew Defty

Rob Baggott

Sonia Exley and Stephen J. Ball

Peter Somerville

Stephen McKay and Karen Rowlingson

Alan Deacon and Ruth Patrick

Jon Glasby

Paul Daniel

Mike Hough

Richard Parry

Catherine Bochel

Hugh Bochel

Rob Baggott is Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Health Policy Research Unit at De Montfort University, Leicester. His publications include Health and Health Care in Britain and Public Health: Policy and Politics , and his research interests include health policy, public health, and patient and public involvement in the NHS.

Stephen J. Ball is the Karl Mannheim Professor of Sociology of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London. He has written and published extensively in the areas of education policy, choice and markets and social class. His most recent book is The Education Debate , published by The Policy Press in 2008. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.

Catherine Bochel is Principal Lecturer in Policy Studies at the University of Lincoln. She has published widely on the policy process. Her publications include Social Policy: Themes, Issues and Debates (co-edited with Hugh Bochel, Robert Page and Rob Sykes) and The UK Social Process (with Hugh Bochel).

Hugh Bochel is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Lincoln. He has published widely on public and social policy including Making Policy in Theory and Practice (with Sue Duncan) and Welfare Policy under New Labour: Views from inside Westminster (with Andrew Defty).

Paul Daniel is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at Roehampton University. His principal teaching and research interests are in the field of childrens rights and the politics of childhood. Among his publications is Children and Social Policy (with John Watts).

Alan Deacon is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the University of Leeds. He has published widely on welfare reform and from 1999 to 2004 was a member of the ESRC Research Group on Care, Values and the Future of Welfare, also at Leeds. He was Chair of the Social Policy Association from 2001 to 2004, and is an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Andrew Defty is a Research Fellow in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Lincoln. His previous research has included a study of MPs attitudes to welfare, Welfare Policy under New Labour: Views from inside Westminster (with Hugh Bochel) , published by The Policy Press, and work on the scrutiny role of the House of Lords.

Nick Ellison is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds. His research interests are wide-ranging and include the politics of social policy in the UK, the UK policy process, the comparative politics of welfare and theories of social policy with particular reference to citizenship, democracy and social equality. Recent publications include The Transformation of Welfare States? , and We Nicked Stuff from All Over the Place: Policy Transfer or Muddling Through?, Policy & Politics , 2009 (with Peter Dwyer).

Sonia Exley is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Education, University of London. Her research focuses on school choice and its regulation, normative discursive assumptions underpinning choice and school choice policy infrastructure in the UK and abroad. She has an interest more broadly in the politics of educational policy-making and the history of British education.

Jon Glasby is Professor of Health and Social Care and Director of the Health Services Management Centre at the University of Birmingham. A qualified social worker by background, he is involved in regular policy advice, consultancy, research and teaching around inter-agency working, community care and personalisation. He is also a Non-Executive Director of the Birmingham Childrens Hospital and a former trustee of the Social Care Institute for Excellence.

Mike Hough is Director of the Institute for Criminal Policy Research and a Professor at the School of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London. His research interests include procedural justice theory, public attitudes to crime and justice, sentencing, and work with offenders.

Stephen McKay is Professor of Social Research in the School of Social Policy at the University of Birmingham. He conducts research on the social security system and has particular expertise in the secondary analysis of complex datasets.

Robert M. Page is a Reader in Democratic Socialism and Social Policy at the University of Birmingham. He is the author/editor of a number of books on social policy including Revisiting the Welfare State , and Social Policy: Themes, Issues and Debates (co-edited with Hugh Bochel, Catherine Bochel and Rob Sykes).

Richard Parry is Reader in Social Policy in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh, where he teaches on Scottish, UK and European social policy and on public policy and management. His major research projects have been on the role of the Treasury in social policy, the impact of devolution on the civil service throughout the United Kingdom, and a cross-national comparison of public sector employment.

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