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Understanding the Cost of Welfare

By: Howard Glennerster

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Understanding the Cost of Welfare

By: Howard Glennerster

The challenge of meeting the growing cost of welfare is one of the most pressing issues facing governments of our time. Glennerster’s authoritative Understanding the cost of welfare assesses what welfare costs and how it is funded sector-by-sector. The book is written in a clear, accessible style, ideally suited to both teaching and study, and the general reader. This substantially revised third edition includes: • Discussion of the many funding issues now facing welfare states, such as demographic change, tax resistance, slow growth and austerity programmes • The theory and practice of devolved tax and budgetary responsibilities between UK nations and in comparison with other countries • New chapters on pensions and post-16 education • More regular and extensive comparative analysis Divided into 3 sections, covering Principles, Service funding, and The Future, the book Includes questions for discussion and suggestions for further reading, making it an easy-to-use, essential resource for both undergraduate and post-graduate students of Social Policy, Sociology, Politics and Public Administration.

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1447334051

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Paying For Welfare

Towards 2000

By: Howard Glennerster

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Paying For Welfare

Towards 2000

By: Howard Glennerster

This is a third edition of a successful textbook that provides a contemporary account of how social services in the UK are paid for. The new edition brings the textbook up-to-date with its fast-moving subject area, explaining the finance of human services - health care, education, housing, social security a nd social care-through a review of the economic literature. It also gives an account of how the cash to pay for the services actually reaches schools, hospitals and social service departments, right from the start of the process, examining how government raises taxes, through to allocation of the funds. Both comprehensive and expertly written, this textbook will continue to feature as key reading for a variety of Social and Policy related courses.

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Routledge

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1317903595

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Paying for Health, Education, and Housing

How Does the Centre Pull the Purse Strings?

By: Howard Glennerster,John Hills,Tony Travers

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Paying for Health, Education, and Housing

How Does the Centre Pull the Purse Strings?

By: Howard Glennerster,John Hills,Tony Travers

This volume reviews the economic theory that underpins thinking about the problem of England relying heavily on central government finance for social services.

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Understanding the Finance of Welfare

What Welfare Costs and how to Pay for it

By: Howard Glennerster

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What Welfare Costs and how to Pay for it

By: Howard Glennerster

The second edition of this textbook assesses the ways in which health care, personal social services, education, housing, pensions and social security are funded in the UK. In each case the UK is compared with other countries. The book considers how services are rationed and asks what future there is for the funding of Western welfare states.

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1847421083

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Wealth in the UK

Distribution, Accumulation, and Policy

By: John Hills,Francesca Bastagli,Frank Cowell,Howard Glennerster,Eleni Karagiannaki,Abigail McKnight

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Wealth in the UK

Distribution, Accumulation, and Policy

By: John Hills,Francesca Bastagli,Frank Cowell,Howard Glennerster,Eleni Karagiannaki,Abigail McKnight

This book examines key issues connected with the distribution of personal wealth in the UK. It studies why wealth is now such an important factor in social differences and public policy. It presents the most recent information on current wealth inequalities and a detailed discussion of trends in the distribution of wealth. It uses newly available data to compare wealth inequalities in the UK with the USA, Canada, and Sweden. It uses longitudinal data, which track the same people over time, to examine trajectories in wealth accumulation over the decade to 2005 and inequalities in inheritances over the same period. It looks at how parental wealth levels and people's asset-holdings early in adulthood affect outcomes later in their lives. The final part looks at the way in which policies towards wealth-holding developed historically, and the contradictory ways in which a wide range of public policies relate to people's wealth levels, including through taxation, means-testing, and the encouragement of saving, and discusses what the key issues for policy towards wealth and wealth inequalities now are. Personal wealth in the UK totalled £5.5 trillion by 2010 (£9-10 trillion if occupational pension rights are included). Inheritance flows are now equivalent to 4 per cent of national income each year. All households in the wealthiest tenth have more than 75 times the wealth of any of those in the bottom tenth. Absolute differences in wealth levels have increased substantially over the last 15 years, so wealth differences represent many more years of income than in the past. This makes them of great importance to life chances. This makes the book highly relevant for public policy, but also for academic and student understanding of a crucial dimension of social difference. As well as bringing together existing information on the area, the book contains considerable new analysis on wealth inequality, inheritance, and their impacts, drawing on work which is at the forefront of recent research.

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0191667412

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Making Social Policy Work

Essays in Honour of Howard Glennerster

By: John Hills,Julian Le Grand,David Piachaud

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Making Social Policy Work

Essays in Honour of Howard Glennerster

By: John Hills,Julian Le Grand,David Piachaud

The essays in this collection have been specially written in honour of the 70th birthday of Howard Glennerster whose work is concerned not only with the theoretical, historical and political foundations of social policies but, crucially, with how they work in practice.

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1447302745

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Running Randomized Evaluations

A Practical Guide

By: Rachel Glennerster,Kudzai Takavarasha

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Running Randomized Evaluations

A Practical Guide

By: Rachel Glennerster,Kudzai Takavarasha

A comprehensive guide to running randomized impact evaluations of social programs in developing countries This book provides a comprehensive yet accessible guide to running randomized impact evaluations of social programs. Drawing on the experience of researchers at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, which has run hundreds of such evaluations in dozens of countries throughout the world, it offers practical insights on how to use this powerful technique, especially in resource-poor environments. This step-by-step guide explains why and when randomized evaluations are useful, in what situations they should be used, and how to prioritize different evaluation opportunities. It shows how to design and analyze studies that answer important questions while respecting the constraints of those working on and benefiting from the program being evaluated. The book gives concrete tips on issues such as improving the quality of a study despite tight budget constraints, and demonstrates how the results of randomized impact evaluations can inform policy. With its self-contained modules, this one-of-a-kind guide is easy to navigate. It also includes invaluable references and a checklist of the common pitfalls to avoid. Provides the most up-to-date guide to running randomized evaluations of social programs, especially in developing countries Offers practical tips on how to complete high-quality studies in even the most challenging environments Self-contained modules allow for easy reference and flexible teaching and learning Comprehensive yet nontechnical

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Princeton University Press

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0691159270

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Understanding the Cost of Welfare

By: Howard Glennerster

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Understanding the Cost of Welfare

By: Howard Glennerster

In the wake of the global financial crash, there is possibly no more pressing question for social policy than what forms of welfare are affordable and how. Clear and accessible, Howard Glennerster's Understanding the Cost of Welfare is unique in offering an authoritative, levelheaded, and nontechnical survey of how economic priorities and pressures affect social policies and what the mechanics of funding services mean in real terms. An updated edition of Glennerster's Understanding the Finance of Welfare, featuring a strengthened comparative dimension in its investigation of these vital services, this book provides more relevant institutional detail than any other text on this topic. Understanding the Cost of Welfare is an important, substantial contribution at a time when neoliberal arguments for reducing the burden of welfare are more dominant than ever before.

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1447334043

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Social Service Budgets and Social Policy

British and American Experience

By: H. Glennerster

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Social Service Budgets and Social Policy

British and American Experience

By: H. Glennerster

First published in 1975, Social Service Budgets and Social Policy compares the attempts by British and US federal governments to plan and control social service expenditure. It concentrates on education, health and social security spending and begins by discussing the contrasting theories of how resource allocation does and ought to work. Then, having compared the broad economic, political and policy contexts within which social planners in the two countries have to work, it scrutinises in particular their attempts at forward planning, output budgeting and programme evaluation. It argues for more explicit and informed decisions about priorities, but as part of an open political process. This book will be of interest to students of economics, sociology and social policy.

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1000995100

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Understanding the finance of welfare (Second edition)

What welfare costs and how to pay for it

By: Glennerster, Howard

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Understanding the finance of welfare (Second edition)

What welfare costs and how to pay for it

By: Glennerster, Howard

· How are hospitals, schools, GPs and social workers funded? How do the poor pay for their housing? · Is the tax payer prepared to pay adequate pensions to the growing numbers of old people? Will we all have to work longer? · Can western welfare states survive in an increasingly competitive world economy? These are some of the questions that the second edition of this best-selling textbook tries to answer. It begins by reviewing the range of ways in which basic human needs can be met and summarises in an accessible way the economic literature on why markets and even governments can fail in this respect. In a series of chapters Understanding the finance of welfare describes and assesses in detail the ways in which health care, personal social services, education, housing, pensions and social security are funded in the UK. In each case what happens in the UK is compared with the means used in other countries. Since demand always outruns supply, the book considers how these services are rationed and concludes by asking what future there is for the funding of western welfare states. Much has happened to the funding of social policy and the economy since the first edition of this book, especially in pensions and social care. New devolved assemblies have taken responsibility for setting social policy and their funding has become an issue. In response, much of the book has been revised and all the figures and tables have been updated. Understanding the finance of welfare has been designed to fit the needs of social policy student syllabuses where it has become an essential text. It is also important to students of public policy and economics and those training as teachers, medical students and social workers. But it will also be of interest to the general public because there is no more important political topic today than how social services are funded.

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1447319990

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Making Social Policy Work

By: Hills, John,Le Grand, Julian,David Piachaud

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Making Social Policy Work

By: Hills, John,Le Grand, Julian,David Piachaud

Social policy is now central to political debate in Britain. What has been achieved by efforts to improve services and reduce poverty? What is needed to deliver more effective and popular services to all and increase social justice? How can we make social policy work? These are some of the questions discussed in this new and wide-ranging collection of essays by a distinguished panel of leading social policy academics. The book covers key issues in contemporary social policy, particularly concentrating on recent changes. It examines the history and goals of social policy as well as its delivery, focusing in turn on the family and the state, schools, higher education, healthcare, social care, communities and housing. Redistribution is also examined, exploring child poverty, pension reform and resources for welfare. The essays in this collection have been specially written to honour the 70th birthday of Howard Glennerster whose pioneering work has been concerned not only with the theoretical, historical and political foundations of social policies but, crucially, with how they work in practice. It is a collection of primary importance for those working in and interested in policy and politics in a wide variety of fields and for students of social policy, public policy and the public sector.

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1861349580

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Wealth in the UK

Distribution, Accumulation, and Policy

By: John Hills,Francesca Bastagli,Frank Cowell,Howard Glennerster,Eleni Karagiannaki,Abigail McKnight

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Wealth in the UK

Distribution, Accumulation, and Policy

By: John Hills,Francesca Bastagli,Frank Cowell,Howard Glennerster,Eleni Karagiannaki,Abigail McKnight

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0191667412

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Nursing in Conflict

By: Patricia Owens,Howard Glennerster

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Nursing in Conflict

By: Patricia Owens,Howard Glennerster

... This is a useful book to aid Health Authorities members' and officers' understanding of nursing.' Nursing Times This book is a close study of nurses in management at all levels in one Regional Health Authority in the NHS. It is based on a research study and charts the organisational repercussions of the Griffiths Report and through interviews and meetings the authors describe the process of change. This book has a wide appeal not only among nurses but for NHS General Managers and all involved in the field of social policy and health service management.

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0333512022

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Paying for Health, Education, and Housing

How Does the Centre Pull the Purse Strings?

By: Howard Glennerster,John Hills,Tony Travers

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Paying for Health, Education, and Housing

How Does the Centre Pull the Purse Strings?

By: Howard Glennerster,John Hills,Tony Travers

This volume reviews the economic theory that underpins thinking about the problem of England relying heavily on central government finance for social services.

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Estate Based Housing Management

An Evaluation

By: Howard Glennerster,Tessa Turner

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Estate Based Housing Management

An Evaluation

By: Howard Glennerster,Tessa Turner

In the 1980s certain estates were targeted under the Priority Estates Project, and local authorities were encouraged to introduce decentralized, estate-based housing management. Although it has been argued that this approach does improve housing standards, until this research was undertaken it had not been independently tested. This is the report of an experiment which was carried out to determine how far it is possible to decentralize and what the impact is of such a strategy. Do standards of housing service and the quality of life of the tenants improve?

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0117528641

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Planning for Priority Groups

By: Howard Glennerster,Nancy Korman,Francis Marslen-Wilson

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Planning for Priority Groups

By: Howard Glennerster,Nancy Korman,Francis Marslen-Wilson

Central policies have been ineffective because of central government misunderstanding of the ways in which local authorities work. The findings of a seven-year study of two London boroughs are set within the context of the development of planning in Britain; practical new methods of planning are suggested, and theoretical approaches to the subject discussed.

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Martin Robertson & Company Limited

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085520575X

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9780855205751

Implementing GP Fundholding

Wild Card Or Winning Hand?

By: Howard Glennerster

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Implementing GP Fundholding

Wild Card Or Winning Hand?

By: Howard Glennerster

GP fundholding was one of the most contentious elements in the British Government's controversial reforms to the NHS. It gave GPs the power to buy services direct from hospitals on behalf of their patients, the most radical change in the funding of the service since 1946. Did this give more choice and power to patients or did it give fundholders' patients an unfair advantage? Is it destabilizing the NHS? Are GPs or district health authorities the best purchasers of health care?" "Professor Glennerster of the LSE has been monitoring the scheme since 1990 as part of a King's Fund-supported research project. This book reports on his research. It traces the origins of the idea and looks at the way it was implemented in three regions. It goes on to study in detail the impact on ten first wave and sixteen second wave practices and examines the financial issues. Finally, the book weighs up the pros and cons of UP fundholding and suggests a way forward." "Implementing GP Fundholding will be of interest to a wide range of health professionals, health authority members and managers. It will also be useful for students of social policy, public administration and health studies."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Paying for Welfare

The 1990s

By: Howard Glennerster

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Paying for Welfare

The 1990s

By: Howard Glennerster

This revised edition of the author's classic textbook updates his overview of the way services such as education, health, pensions and community care are financed. light of changes that took place during the 1980s, and at the alternatives posed for the 1990s. New chapters examine the theoretical basis for state funding of welfare services, for the privatization of provision and for quasi markets within the public sector. spending patterns and the means of finance in other countries is included to illustrate the British experience.

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