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This book is the outgrowth of a large‐scale comparative project on the changing landscape of the ... more This book is the outgrowth of a large‐scale comparative project on the changing landscape of the welfare state initiated by the author in 1997. In it, it is argued that the changes in welfare policy being witnessed in Europe and the USA are not marginal adjustments to the borders of the welfare state, but represent a fundamental shift or transformation in the design and philosophy of social protection. The author argues that there has been a turn away from the conventional welfare‐state emphasis on broad‐based entitlements, passive income supports, and publicly delivered benefits, towards a new ‘enabling’ approach under which welfare allocations are more selective on the bases of income and behaviour, and are activity related, and privately delivered. The shift to this ‘enabling state’ is traced, and evidence provided of how the new system promotes work and economic inclusion over protection, and how it changes the nature of social cohesion, diluting the role of government and thick...

Transformation of the Welfare State, 2002

Over the last decade, changing family life and increasing fiscal constraints on welfare expenditu... more Over the last decade, changing family life and increasing fiscal constraints on welfare expenditures have forced industrialized nations to reconsider how they approach social protection. Faced with fiscal and demographic changes, many countries have been ...

Social Service Review, 1976

There is growing recognition that, while technological advances in the rural sector of developing... more There is growing recognition that, while technological advances in the rural sector of developing countries may increase productivity, at the same time they undermine traditional systems of social protection. These changes are generating pressing needs to design ...

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Integrating Social Work Methods

Gender and Social Security Reform

Arbor

The paper analyzes several key features of the changing landscape of modern welfare states, the m... more The paper analyzes several key features of the changing landscape of modern welfare states, the major the social forces driving this change, and how change is pertinent to the future of social work practice. The social forces driving change include structural factors such as the demographic transition and globalization of the economy as well as sociopolitical variables that involve an understanding of the unanticipated effects of social policies and the increased value attributed to the private sector. The central characteristics of change include a shift in policies away from the protection of labor and toward the promotion of work and the increasing use of the private sector for the production and delivery of social services. The privatization of social welfare and its implications for social work practice are examined in light of the challenges in negotiating purchase of service contracts.

This study examines the extent to which individual's attitudes toward government responsibility f... more This study examines the extent to which individual's attitudes toward government responsibility for child care provisions are influenced by personal characteristics as well as the social contexts in which these attitudes are formed. The analysis 1

The Handbook of Social Policy, 2009

Welfare pluralism, sometimes referred to as the mixed economy of welfare, has played an increasin... more Welfare pluralism, sometimes referred to as the mixed economy of welfare, has played an increasingly prominent role in social policy discourse since the late 1970s. According to Johnson (1987), heightened interest in this idea began to build in Britain after publication ...

Transformation of the Welfare State, 2002

Transformation of the Welfare State, 2002

Transformation of the Welfare State, 2002

Government, Markets and Social Policy in the Twenty-First Century, 2012

United in Diversity?, 2009

Crime and Justice, 1997

Page 1. Neil Gilbert Advocacy Research and Social Policy ABSTRACT Advocacy research-empirical inv... more Page 1. Neil Gilbert Advocacy Research and Social Policy ABSTRACT Advocacy research-empirical investigations of social problems by people who are deeply concerned about those problems-has a long and honorable history ...

International Planning Studies, 1997

There is in Australia a chronic shortage of decent housing affordable to the income poor. This sh... more There is in Australia a chronic shortage of decent housing affordable to the income poor. This shortage is exacerbated by increasingly vociferous opposition from groups of residents to proposals for low‐income housing development. The move towards a more inclusionary form of planning in the 1990s, based on an expansion of public participation strategies, often leaves planners torn between satisfying the

This book is the outgrowth of a large‐scale comparative project on the changing landscape of the ... more This book is the outgrowth of a large‐scale comparative project on the changing landscape of the welfare state initiated by the author in 1997. In it, it is argued that the changes in welfare policy being witnessed in Europe and the USA are not marginal adjustments to the borders of the welfare state, but represent a fundamental shift or transformation in the design and philosophy of social protection. The author argues that there has been a turn away from the conventional welfare‐state emphasis on broad‐based entitlements, passive income supports, and publicly delivered benefits, towards a new ‘enabling’ approach under which welfare allocations are more selective on the bases of income and behaviour, and are activity related, and privately delivered. The shift to this ‘enabling state’ is traced, and evidence provided of how the new system promotes work and economic inclusion over protection, and how it changes the nature of social cohesion, diluting the role of government and thick...

Transformation of the Welfare State, 2002

Over the last decade, changing family life and increasing fiscal constraints on welfare expenditu... more Over the last decade, changing family life and increasing fiscal constraints on welfare expenditures have forced industrialized nations to reconsider how they approach social protection. Faced with fiscal and demographic changes, many countries have been ...

Social Service Review, 1976

There is growing recognition that, while technological advances in the rural sector of developing... more There is growing recognition that, while technological advances in the rural sector of developing countries may increase productivity, at the same time they undermine traditional systems of social protection. These changes are generating pressing needs to design ...

An academic directory and search engine.

Integrating Social Work Methods

Gender and Social Security Reform

Arbor

The paper analyzes several key features of the changing landscape of modern welfare states, the m... more The paper analyzes several key features of the changing landscape of modern welfare states, the major the social forces driving this change, and how change is pertinent to the future of social work practice. The social forces driving change include structural factors such as the demographic transition and globalization of the economy as well as sociopolitical variables that involve an understanding of the unanticipated effects of social policies and the increased value attributed to the private sector. The central characteristics of change include a shift in policies away from the protection of labor and toward the promotion of work and the increasing use of the private sector for the production and delivery of social services. The privatization of social welfare and its implications for social work practice are examined in light of the challenges in negotiating purchase of service contracts.

This study examines the extent to which individual's attitudes toward government responsibility f... more This study examines the extent to which individual's attitudes toward government responsibility for child care provisions are influenced by personal characteristics as well as the social contexts in which these attitudes are formed. The analysis 1

The Handbook of Social Policy, 2009

Welfare pluralism, sometimes referred to as the mixed economy of welfare, has played an increasin... more Welfare pluralism, sometimes referred to as the mixed economy of welfare, has played an increasingly prominent role in social policy discourse since the late 1970s. According to Johnson (1987), heightened interest in this idea began to build in Britain after publication ...

Transformation of the Welfare State, 2002

Transformation of the Welfare State, 2002

Transformation of the Welfare State, 2002

Government, Markets and Social Policy in the Twenty-First Century, 2012

United in Diversity?, 2009

Crime and Justice, 1997

Page 1. Neil Gilbert Advocacy Research and Social Policy ABSTRACT Advocacy research-empirical inv... more Page 1. Neil Gilbert Advocacy Research and Social Policy ABSTRACT Advocacy research-empirical investigations of social problems by people who are deeply concerned about those problems-has a long and honorable history ...

International Planning Studies, 1997

There is in Australia a chronic shortage of decent housing affordable to the income poor. This sh... more There is in Australia a chronic shortage of decent housing affordable to the income poor. This shortage is exacerbated by increasingly vociferous opposition from groups of residents to proposals for low‐income housing development. The move towards a more inclusionary form of planning in the 1990s, based on an expansion of public participation strategies, often leaves planners torn between satisfying the