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Education, Health and Housing

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Contemporary British Politics

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Abstract

The Welfare State is an extremely complex set of organisations and structures providing services from ‘the cradle to the grave’. Its very success can cause problems regarding its future development. Improved services can increase demand for those services and so drain resources. On the other hand, those who have benefited from opportunities provided by the Welfare State in the past may, with greater affluence, look at the private sector for future provision. This chapter considers the problems which became apparent in the 1970s and 1980s together with proposed remedies. It also examines how centralism and free market forces impinge upon decision-making in each issue-area.

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Further Reading

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  1. Bill Coxall
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Lynton Robins

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© 1992 Bill Coxall and Lynton Robins

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Coxall, B. (1992). Education, Health and Housing. In: Robins, L. (eds) Contemporary British Politics. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19867-2_18

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