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Article: John Clarke: Changing Welfare, Changing States: New Directions in Social Policy.(Book Review)
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- Capital & Class
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- March 22, 2006
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John Clarke Changing Welfare, Changing States: New Directions in Social Policy Sage, 2004, 208 pp. ISBN: 0-761-94203-3 (pbk) 19 [pounds sterling] ISBN: 0-761-94202-5 (hbk) 60 [pounds sterling]
John Clarke's Changing Welfare, Changing States is a highly stimulating and well-written piece of work that reflects the author's status as one of the most original contemporary social-policy thinkers. Yet while fully recommending this book, it is also necessary to stress that at its centre lies an unresolved tension between materialism on the one hand, and idealism on the other. For all of its merits, of which there are many--most notably a series of excellent critiques on ...