This book introduces students to the diversity of theoretical perspectives on welfare, both illuminating the distinctiveness of each ideology and highlighting important continuities in thought. It goes on to illustrate how these theories are reflected in and challenge the development of welfare policy.

GARY TAYLOR is Senior Lecturer in Applied Social Science at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Liberalism
Conservatism
Social Democracy
Neo-Liberalism
Third Way
Radical Critics: Marxism
Radical Critics: Feminism
Radical Critics: Greens
Conclusion
Bibliography.