Howard Glennerster
Biographic Data
| ID | 244652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Howard Glennerster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Howard |
| FAMILY NAME | Glennerster |
| SIGNATURE | GLENNERSTER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 159 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Social Service Budgets and Social Policy
First published in 1975, Social Service Budgets and Social Policy compares the attempts by British and US federal governments to plan and control social service expenditure. It concentrates on education, health and social security spending and begins by discussing the contrasting theories of how resource allocation does and ought to work. Then, having compared the broad economic, political and policy contexts within which social planners in the t…
Why Was a Wealth Tax for the UK Abandoned? Lessons for the Policy Process and Tackling Wealth Inequality
The distribution of wealth is widening in many countries and with it the growing importance of inherited wealth. In 1974, a Labour Government came to power in the United Kingdom committed to introducing an annual wealth tax. It left office without doing so. Using the official archives of the time and those of a key advisor this paper traces both the origins of the policy and its fate at the hands of the civil service. It explores two related ques…
The Sustainability of Western Welfare States
LSE has developed LSE Research Online so that users may access research output of the School. Copyright © and Moral Rights for the papers on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. Users may download and/or print one copy of any article(s) in LSE Research Online to facilitate their private study or for non-commercial research. You may not engage in further distribution of the material or use it for any prof…
Modernising the Welfare State
Social Policy
This article explores the way aspects of our approach to social policy in the UK have changed over the last 40 years – one academic lifetime and also, coincidentally, the lifetime of this journal – and the significance of six particular changes. More social problems have come to be seen as having a supra-national dimension: the scale and ramifications of problems are much better appreciated; the accepted territory of social policy has greatly wid…
Pensions ‐ by Michael Hill
Capital poor
Poverty campaigners have devoted too little attention to the fact that most poor people have no assets. Tom Paine (1969) wanted to tax the assets of the wealthy, transferring the proceeds to citizens at the beginning of life. Modern neo-conservatives want to replace the welfare state with a capital grant at birth. This article rejects the latter course on the basis of economic theory and praticability. But it does advocate capitalising welfare an…
Understanding Social Exclusion
Abstract This book explores the issue of social exclusion. It asks three main questions: How can social exclusion be measured? What are its main determinants or influences? And what policies can reduce social exclusion? The authors aim to consider how a focus on social exclusion may alter the policy questions that are most relevant by fostering debate in government, research, and academic circles.
Understanding social exclusion
This text explores the issue of social exclusion, considering its measurement, main determinants, and ways in which it may be reduced. The editors show how a focus on the topic may alter the relevant policy questions by fostering debate in government
United States Poverty Studies and Poverty Measurement
This article discusses the contribution American social scientists have made to the study of poverty over the past 25 years as viewed from a comparative perspective. It has two parts. The first concentrates on the measurement of poverty and the fact that the U.S. poverty line remained fundamentally unchanged in that period despite increasingly important deficiencies in the way it was calculated. The second analyzes the broadened scope of U.S. res…
Welfare and wellbeing
Welfare and wellbeing
Welfare and wellbeing
Richard Titmuss was Professor of Social Administration at the London School of Economics from 1950 until his death in 1973. His publications on welfare and social policy were radical and wide-ranging, spanning fields such as demography, class inequalities in health, social work, and altruism. Titmuss's work played a critical role in establishing the study of social policy as a scientific discipline; it helped to shape the development of the Briti…
Developing social policy in conditions of rapid change
Welfare and Wellbeing
This book brings together a selection of Richard Titmuss' important writings on a range of key social policy issues, together with commentary from experts in the field. The companion volume, Private Complaints and Public Health: Richard Titmuss on the National Health Service , is edited by Ann Oakley and Jonathan Barker (Policy Press, 2004).
The social division of welfare
Welfare and Wellbeing
Welfare and wellbeingRichard Titmuss's contribution to social policy
Richard Titmuss was Professor of Social Administration at the London School of Economics (LSE) from 1950 until his death in 1973. His publications on welfare and social policy were radical and wide-ranging, spanning fields such as demography, class inequalities in health, social work, and altruism. Titmuss's work played a critical role in establishing the study of social policy as a scientific discipline; it helped to shape the development of the…
Which Welfare States are Most Likely to Survive
This paper considers the major shocks to which modern welfare systems are having to adapt. These include the growing inequalities of rewards for those in work, the growing scale of unemployment, global economic pressures, the ageing of populations and the combination of fiscal constraint with rising consumer expectations. It discusses how different kinds of welfare state are responding to these pressures and looks especially at the policies of th…
A Reply to ‘Things Can Only Get Better’
Human Services and the Voluntary Sector
This article explores whether human service organisations in the voluntary sector possess characteristics which might assure them of possible comparative advantages over the for-profit and public sectors with respect to certain sorts of users. We argue that there are inherent structural characteristics of organisations in each sector (for example, ownership, stakeholders and resources) which predispose them to respond more or less sensitively to …
Productivity Education and Training
Understanding the finance of welfare
British Social Policy 1945 to the Present
This is a new edition of one of the most widely used texts on the history of social policy in Britain. Covering the period from the end of the Second World War to the present day, Howard Glennerster focuses on the Welfare State to explore the myths that have shaped popular conceptions of social policy, and which continue to dominate current debates. From the earliest days of the Welfare State, to New Labour's reform commitments for the new centur…
British social policy since 1945
Figures and Tables. General Editor's Preface. 1. The British Welfare State: Origins and Myths: Origins. The Basic Principles of the 1940s Welfare State. The Myths. A Re-evaluation. 2. Beveridge: Founding Father?: Beveridge: The Man. The Ambition: A New Britain. The Report: Radical, But Did it Add Up? The Report's Main Proposals. The Rejection of Beveridge? Family Allowances. An Unsound Foundation. 3. The Right to Health, Knowledge, Food, Shelter …
Quasi-Markets for Education
Journal Article Quasi-Markets for Education? Get access Howard Glennerster Howard Glennerster London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 101, Issue 408, 1 September 1991, Pages 1268–1276, https://doi.org/10.2307/2234442 Published: 01 September 1991
Human Services and the Voluntary Sector
This article explores whether human service organisations in the voluntary sector possess characteristics which might assure them of possible comparative advantages over the for-profit and public sectors with respect to certain sorts of users. We argue that there are inherent structural characteristics of organisations in each sector (for example, ownership, stakeholders and resources) which predispose them to respond more or less sensitively to …
United States Poverty Studies and Poverty Measurement
This article discusses the contribution American social scientists have made to the study of poverty over the past 25 years as viewed from a comparative perspective. It has two parts. The first concentrates on the measurement of poverty and the fact that the U.S. poverty line remained fundamentally unchanged in that period despite increasingly important deficiencies in the way it was calculated. The second analyzes the broadened scope of U.S. res…
Change, Choice and Conflict in Social Policy
Why Was a Wealth Tax for the UK Abandoned? Lessons for the Policy Process and Tackling Wealth Inequality
The distribution of wealth is widening in many countries and with it the growing importance of inherited wealth. In 1974, a Labour Government came to power in the United Kingdom committed to introducing an annual wealth tax. It left office without doing so. Using the official archives of the time and those of a key advisor this paper traces both the origins of the policy and its fate at the hands of the civil service. It explores two related ques…
A New Era for Social Policy
A succession of Acts of Parliament passed between 1988 and 1990 mark the most decisive break in British social policy since the period between 1944 and 1948. This paper examines the extent to which common principles underlie this legislation. One of the most important common elements has been the reduction in the powers of local government and in the presumption that local authorities should be the main providers of social welfare outside the soc…
A Requiem for the Social Administration Association
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Prime Cuts
The presumption of growth in a relatively stable economic and political environment is deeply embedded not merely in administrative and budgetary practice but in the framework of ideas that political scientists have used to analyse resource decisions. It is as much a part of the rational comprehensive planning tradition as it is of the incrementalist budgetary literature. The more turbulent economic environment and the era of cuts in public spend…
Regional Rates of Return to Education and Training in Britain
BENNETT R., GLENNERSTER H. and NEVISON D. (1995) Regional rates of return to education and training in Britain, Reg. Studies 29, 279-295. Using a structural utility-maximizing human capital model of the post-16 education and training decision, the paper explores rates of return and lifetime earnings that might influence an individual's decision to participate in post-compulsory education and training. The paper presents ex ante regional rates of …
Social Policy
This article explores the way aspects of our approach to social policy in the UK have changed over the last 40 years – one academic lifetime and also, coincidentally, the lifetime of this journal – and the significance of six particular changes. More social problems have come to be seen as having a supra-national dimension: the scale and ramifications of problems are much better appreciated; the accepted territory of social policy has greatly wid…
Which Welfare States are Most Likely to Survive
This paper considers the major shocks to which modern welfare systems are having to adapt. These include the growing inequalities of rewards for those in work, the growing scale of unemployment, global economic pressures, the ageing of populations and the combination of fiscal constraint with rising consumer expectations. It discusses how different kinds of welfare state are responding to these pressures and looks especially at the policies of th…
Working for Patients? The Right Approach
This paper is a slightly revised version of a Memorandum requested by the House of Commons Social Services Select Committee to assist the Committee in its analysis of the White Paper Working for Patients (Cm 555). It was submitted to the Committee on 28 February 1989. The paper follows up the authors’earlier study of the reform of the NHS (Barr, Glennerster and Le Grand, 1988), prepared at the request of the Select Committee prior to the publicat…
Social Service Budgets and Social Policy. British and American Experience
Journal Article Social Service Budgets and Social Policy. British and American experience Get access Social Service Budgets and Social Policy. British and American experience. By H. GLENNERSTER. (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1975. Pp. 272. £6.50.) Peter West Peter West University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 86, Issue 344, 1 December 1976, Pages 932–933, https://d…
La contractualisation au sein du service national de santé au Royaume-Uni
Contractualisation at the Heart of the National Health Service in the United Kingdom The National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom underwent an important reform in 1991. This huge transformation allowed an improvement in transparency of NHS activities and the highlighting of preoccupations conceming profitability and quality. Nevertheless the desired separation between the purchasers of health care services and the providers of these se…
From Containment To Conflict? Social Planning In The Seventies
During the 1970s a complex range of formal planning procedures were developed by central and local government and other public bodies. By the end of the decade there were well over twenty 'public planning systems' in operation, each with its own timetable, procedure and information demands. A number of allocation formulae were evolved to distribute cash and capital allocations between geographical areas, and various procedures to improve service …
A Reply to ‘Things Can Only Get Better’
Social Security Policy in Britain
How much do we care
Graduate School
Educational Finance
Educational Finance
Graduate School
Educational Finance
Paying for Private Schools
Paying for Private Schools
Educational research and education policy
Education is absorbing an increasing share of the nation's resources. The body of research on the subject is vast. Yet its impact on policy has been diffuse and difficult to assess. Studies directly focused on policy issues are rare. The primary aim of this paper is to suggest some areas where research is needed in view of emerging policy considerations. To put such a discussion in its context we begin by briefly examining the extent to which res…
Social Service Budgets and Social Policy. British and American Experience
Journal Article Social Service Budgets and Social Policy. British and American experience Get access Social Service Budgets and Social Policy. British and American experience. By H. GLENNERSTER. (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1975. Pp. 272. £6.50.) Peter West Peter West University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 86, Issue 344, 1 December 1976, Pages 932–933, https://d…
Change, Choice and Conflict in Social Policy
Prime Cuts
The presumption of growth in a relatively stable economic and political environment is deeply embedded not merely in administrative and budgetary practice but in the framework of ideas that political scientists have used to analyse resource decisions. It is as much a part of the rational comprehensive planning tradition as it is of the incrementalist budgetary literature. The more turbulent economic environment and the era of cuts in public spend…
The role of the state in financing recurrent education
From Containment To Conflict? Social Planning In The Seventies
During the 1970s a complex range of formal planning procedures were developed by central and local government and other public bodies. By the end of the decade there were well over twenty 'public planning systems' in operation, each with its own timetable, procedure and information demands. A number of allocation formulae were evolved to distribute cash and capital allocations between geographical areas, and various procedures to improve service …
Plans and Practice
This article is the result of some extensive and lengthy interviews with officers in local and health authorities in two London boroughs. It focuses on their attitudes to resource planning and inter‐authority collaboration in the provision of services for two priority groups — the elderly and the mentally handicapped. The interviews were undertaken in 1980, in the aftermath of the tighter financial climate that followed the 1979 election, and fie…
The Economics of Social Care
The Economics of Social Care
Journal Article The Economics of Social Care Get access The Economics of Social Care. By MARTIN KNAPP. (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1984. Pp. xiv + 251.)Paying for Welfare. By HOWARD GLENNERSTER. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985. Pp. xi + 273. £19.50 hardback, £7.50 paperback.) Joseph M. Jackson Joseph M. Jackson University of Dundee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 95, Issue 379, 1 S…
Paying for Welfare
A Requiem for the Social Administration Association
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Working for Patients? The Right Approach
This paper is a slightly revised version of a Memorandum requested by the House of Commons Social Services Select Committee to assist the Committee in its analysis of the White Paper Working for Patients (Cm 555). It was submitted to the Committee on 28 February 1989. The paper follows up the authors’earlier study of the reform of the NHS (Barr, Glennerster and Le Grand, 1988), prepared at the request of the Select Committee prior to the publicat…
How much do we care
Quasi-Markets for Education
Journal Article Quasi-Markets for Education? Get access Howard Glennerster Howard Glennerster London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 101, Issue 408, 1 September 1991, Pages 1268–1276, https://doi.org/10.2307/2234442 Published: 01 September 1991
A New Era for Social Policy
A succession of Acts of Parliament passed between 1988 and 1990 mark the most decisive break in British social policy since the period between 1944 and 1948. This paper examines the extent to which common principles underlie this legislation. One of the most important common elements has been the reduction in the powers of local government and in the presumption that local authorities should be the main providers of social welfare outside the soc…
The Shadow State
Social Security Policy in Britain
Beveridge and his Assumptive Worlds
No historical document is cited more frequently in postwar social policy debate than the Beveridge Report (Beveridge 1942). The last official review of the UK social security system described itself as the most fundamental ‘since Beveridge’. The most thoroughgoing independent review of taxes and benefits, the Meade Committee (1978), advocated ‘a new Beveridge Scheme’ (pp. 269--94). Critics lay the blame for what they see as the failure of social …
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