The Treasury and Social Policy: The Contest for Control of Welfare Strategy

by Nicholas Deakin and Richard Parry

Book Overview

What is the power of the Treasury in controlling the policies and development of the welfare state? Drawing on in-depth interviews with officials of the Treasury and the spending departments, this book traces the developing role of the Treasury in setting social policy, especially under Gordon Brown's chancellorship.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349412759
• ISBN13: 9781349412754
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"