Redesigning the welfare state in New Zealand : problems, policies, prospects / edited by Jonathan Boston, Paul Dalziel, Susan St John.
Material type: TextPublisher: Auckland, N.Z. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999Description: xi, 356 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0195583736
- 9780195583731
- 361.650993 21
- HV515.5 .R45 1999
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-344) and index.
Preface -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Pt. I. Principles and Key Themes -- 1. New Zealand's Welfare State in Transition -- 2. Social Justice and the Welfare State -- 3. Sustainable Social Policy -- 4. Macroeconomic Constraints -- 5. The Role of Government -- 6. Targeting versus Universality: Social Assistance for All or Just for the Poor? -- Pt. II. Policy Issues and Debates -- 7. Redesigning Industrial Relations: The Employment Contracts Act and its Consequences -- 8. The Health Reforms: To Market and Back? -- 9. Accident Compensation in New Zealand: A Fairer Scheme? -- 10. Compulsory Education in a Competition State -- 11. The Funding of Tertiary Education: Enduring Issues and Dilemmas -- 12. Housing Policy -- 13. Poverty, Family Finances and Social Security -- 14. From Welfare to Workfare -- 15. Superannuation in the 1990s: Where Angels Fear to Tread? -- Pt. III. Summary and Conclusion -- 16. Rebuilding an Effective Welfare State -- References -- Index.
Since 1990, New Zealand has sought to redesign the welfare state, with radical changes being made in industrial relations, health, accident.
compensation education, housing, social welfare, employment assistance and superannuation.
Redesigning the Welfare State in New Zealand contains an authoritative record and analysis of the changes in each of these policy areas.
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