Daniel Wincott
Biographic Data
| ID | 284342 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Wincott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Wincott |
| SIGNATURE | WINCOTT D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9287-2150 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 499 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 53 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Reshaping Belonging: National Identity Change in Post-Referendum Britain
National identity is usually treated as a stable driver of political behaviour, yet we know little about whether it responds to major political events. We examine how two pivotal electoral events – the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum and the 2016 EU Referendum – were associated with changes in citizens’ sense of national belonging. Using the 2014–2025 British Election Study Internet Panel, we show that both referendums precipitated signific…
Incumbency and Identity: The 2021 Senedd Election
Taking place amid a global pandemic, the 2021 Senedd Election saw Welsh Labour returned as the largest party at the sixth consecutive occasion since the institution’s founding in 1999. Results for opposition parties were mixed: the Conservatives achieved their highest ever vote share but their seat tally fell short of pre-election expectations, and Plaid Cymru again made little progress. Using data from the 2021 Welsh Election Study, we explore t…
Voluntary Action, Territory and Timing: The Council of Social Service for Wales, Periodisation and the New Historiography of the 'British Welfare State
This article analyses the development of the Council of Social Service for Wales during what is often called the Golden Age of the Welfare State. Recovering the neglected history of the peak organisation for voluntary social service in Wales adds to our understanding of the histories of social policy and postwar Wales. The article addresses social policy from a doubly peripheral perspective - it attends to a territorial periphery of the UK State …
Ripening time? The Welsh Labour government between Brexit and parliamentary sovereignty
The Welsh Labour government occupies a unique position in UK territorial politics, favouring neither the status quo nor independence for Wales while advocating a new settlement for the whole state. This article provides a detailed examination of its policy, focusing on its position on the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty. Drawing from a range of documentary sources, we analyse the Welsh government’s constitutional proposals and its decision-…
Brexit, the Press and the Territorial Constitution
Brexit has unveiled previously hidden aspects of United Kingdom (UK) society, law and politics. It provides a valuable opportunity to investigate the social reception of law, and in particular the mediation of the law and constitution in the press. The distinctive constitutional arrangements and histories of Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and England have given rise to different territorial interpretations of the UK state. These asymmetries ha…
The Anglo-British imaginary and the rebuilding of the UK’s territorial constitution after Brexit: Unitary state or union state
Brexit has foregrounded radical divergences between the accounts of the UK’s constitutional order advanced by the UK Government and the devolved governments, with the distinctions coming into sharp relief in debates over legislation to sustain the UK’s internal market. This article examines the limits to the roots of the UK Government’s insistence that the UK is a unitary state, and not a union-state, in the textbook tradition of constitutional s…
Multilevel dynamics of the UK’s EU exit: Identity, territory, policy and power
Introducing a multidisciplinary special issue on the multilevel dynamics of the UK’s exit from the European Union (EU), this article considers social science ‘impact’ from Brexit-related research, including the Economic and Social Research Council’s (ESRC) UK in a Changing Europe initiative and Governance after Brexit programme. The issue draws on the initiative’s Brexit Priority Grant programme, bringing together economists, political scientists…
Exploring the meso-territorialization of third sector administration and welfare delivery in federal and union states: Evidence and theory-building from the UK
The international trend of state restructuring and the rise of decentralized welfare systems means a key challenge for social research is to systematically explore the breadth of factors shaping the territorialization of third sector welfare delivery at the meso level in federal and union states. We address this lacuna by synthesizing historical-institutionalism and critical realism with Salamon and Anheier’s classic framework on civic infrastruc…
Partition by Degrees: Routine Exceptions in Border and Immigration Practice between the UK and Ireland, 1921–1972
Using archival materials, we reflect on the legal process of creating (and mitigating) a border in Ireland after partition in 1922 and interactions between those laws and the people whom they affected. After 1922, superficially durable exceptions developed to the territorial state's distinctions between citizens and foreign nationals under the aegis of the Common Travel Area. They survived the 1930s UK–Ireland ‘Economic War’, were sustained (if i…
Analysing vote-choice in a multinational state: National identity and territorial differentiation in the 2016 Brexit vote
Striking territorial variations in the 2016 Brexit referendum are neglected in the explanatory literature, a gap our analysis of the British Election Study (BES) helps to fill. Rather than modelling Britain as one political system, we present parallel models for England, Scotland and Wales. Typical in other multinational states, this approach is innovative for ‘British politics’. The analysis shows different variables help to explain Leave suppor…
Crisis, what crisis? Conceptualizing crisis, UK pluri-constitutionalism and Brexit politics
Has Brexit triggered a constitutional crisis? Crisis is one of a family of concepts, including tipping points, catastrophic equilibrium and failure, identifying it as a decisive moment for overcoming contradictions and ambiguities. Across multiple UK levels – the whole state, constituent nations and different legal jurisdictions – even in ‘normal times’ the constitution has been marked by both a dominant ‘Anglo-British imaginary’ and territorial …
Symposium Introduction: The Paradox of Structure: The UK State, Society and ‘Brexit
Ostensibly motivated by ‘taking back control’, is Brexit an opportunity to enhance the UK's capacity for self‐government? If driven by an aspiration to maximise the central state's governing autonomy, it confronts a paradox: governance structures at once enable action and constrain it. Exploring this paradox of structure, this article sets Brexit in long‐term perspective. As well as reshaping its external relations, Brexit inevitably unsettles th…
Introduction: Studying Brexit’s causes and consequences
Brexit dilemmas: New opportunities and tough choices in unsettled times
Concluding the British Journal of Politics and International Relations’ (BJPIR) Brexit Special Issue, this article seeks to set the unsettled times and unexpected events associated with the Brexit in historic context and tease out the prospects for a ‘bespoke’ UK exit agreement. Drawing on classics of social science history—by Barrington Moore, Gourevitch and Davis—it reflects on ‘suppressed historic choices’ and historical periodisations. Three …
Introduction: The UK and the European Union
England, Englishness and Brexit
In the 1975 referendum England provided the strongest support for European integration, with a much smaller margin for membership in Scotland and Northern Ireland. By 2015 the rank order of ‘national’ attitudes to European integration had reversed. Now, England is the UK 's most eurosceptic nation and may vote ‘Leave’, while Scotland seems set to generate a clear margin for ‘Remain’. The UK as a whole is a Brexit marginal. To understand the campa…
Analysing Social Policy Concepts and Language: Comparative and transnational perspectives
Social policy scholars and practitioners work with concepts such as "welfare state" and "social security" but where do these concepts come from and how has their meaning changed over time? Which are the dominant social policy concepts and how are they contested? What characterises social policy language in specific countries and regions of the world and how do social concepts travel between countries? Addressing such questions in a systematic man…
Envisioning the Third Sector's Welfare Role: Critical Discourse Analysis of ‘Post‐Devolution’ Public Policy in the UK 1998–2012
Welfare state theory has struggled to come to terms with the role of the third sector. It has often categorized welfare states in terms of the pattern of interplay between state social policies and the structure of the labour market. Moreover, it has frequently offered an exclusive focus on state policy – thereby failing to substantially recognize the role of the formally organized third sector. This study offers a corrective view. Against the ba…
Reflections on the ‘Devolution Paradox’: A Comparative Examination of Multilevel Citizenship
Henderson A., Jeffery C., Wincott D. and Wyn Jones R. Reflections on the ‘devolution paradox’: a comparative examination of multilevel citizenship, Regional Studies. This paper addresses a paradox in the literature on federal and decentralized states: citizens want their regional governments to do more and yet seem reluctant to embrace the logical consequences of regional control, namely inter-regional policy variation and limited state-wide inte…
The Political Economy of European Welfare Capitalism
The (Golden) Age of the Welfare State: Interrogating a Conventional Wisdom
The idea of a (golden) age pervades most academic analysis and debate about the welfare state. This article interrogates this largely unquestioned epochal image of welfare history which is, in effect, a shared conventional wisdom. That vast and often disputatious scholarly literatures should share a conventional epochal axiom is remarkable. So is the absence of academic debate focused on this idea, which is both pervasive and vague. Perhaps parad…
Images of Welfare in Law and Society: The British Welfare State in Comparative Perspective
Designed by Beveridge and built by Attlee's post‐war Labour government, the welfare state was created during the 1940s. Britain has been seen – in domestic debates and internationally – as a world first: the place where both the idea and the practice of the welfare state were invented. I draw together comparative welfare state analysis with law and society scholarship (previously largely developed in isolation from one another) – as well as using…
Ideas, Policy Change, and the Welfare State
Students of public policy have emphasized the impact of ideas on policy change. This chapter explores this issue by focusing on public early childhood education and care provisions in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It draws attention to the issue of incremental change and the need for a more direct dialogue between policy analysis and institutionalist perspectives on ideas. It shows that ideational analysis can make a stron…
The Transformation of Citizenship in the European Union: Electoral Rights and the Restructuring of Political Space by Jo Shaw
Devolution and the Welfare State: Lessons from Early Childhood Education and Care Policy in Wales
The author analyses the scope and limits of the policy autonomy devolved to the Welsh Assembly Government (WAG). He engages with James Mitchell's application of Ted Lowi's seminal analysis of ‘policy types’ to Scottish devolution. These concepts are used to frame a case study of Welsh early childhood education and care (ECEC), demonstrating extensive innovation in Wales concerning the form of ECEC and its impact on compulsory schooling. However, …
Structure, Agency and Historical Institutionalism
As be®ts two if its principal exponents, Hall and Taylor's recent article `Political science and the three new institutionalisms' provides a meticulous and provocative review of the many faces of the `new institutionalism' and a distinctive contribution to the growing literature in this area in its own right.* It provides an important opportunity to consider again the strengths and weaknesses of contemporary institutionalism and to raise the ques…
England, Englishness and Brexit
In the 1975 referendum England provided the strongest support for European integration, with a much smaller margin for membership in Scotland and Northern Ireland. By 2015 the rank order of ‘national’ attitudes to European integration had reversed. Now, England is the UK 's most eurosceptic nation and may vote ‘Leave’, while Scotland seems set to generate a clear margin for ‘Remain’. The UK as a whole is a Brexit marginal. To understand the campa…
Institutional Interaction and European Integration: Towards an Everyday Critique of Liberal Inter governmentalism
Reflections on the ‘Devolution Paradox’: A Comparative Examination of Multilevel Citizenship
Henderson A., Jeffery C., Wincott D. and Wyn Jones R. Reflections on the ‘devolution paradox’: a comparative examination of multilevel citizenship, Regional Studies. This paper addresses a paradox in the literature on federal and decentralized states: citizens want their regional governments to do more and yet seem reluctant to embrace the logical consequences of regional control, namely inter-regional policy variation and limited state-wide inte…
Beyond social regulation? New instruments and/or a new agenda for social policy at Lisbon
The consistent failure to match EU market integration with social policies provoked the development of new modes of European governance for welfare provision in the early 1990s. Based on policy co‐ordination rather than integration, these new governance modes were consolidated as the ‘Open Method of Co‐ordination’ (OMC) at the Lisbon Summit in 2000. This article analyses the scope and limits of the OMC, locating it in the context of broader trend…
The (Golden) Age of the Welfare State: Interrogating a Conventional Wisdom
The idea of a (golden) age pervades most academic analysis and debate about the welfare state. This article interrogates this largely unquestioned epochal image of welfare history which is, in effect, a shared conventional wisdom. That vast and often disputatious scholarly literatures should share a conventional epochal axiom is remarkable. So is the absence of academic debate focused on this idea, which is both pervasive and vague. Perhaps parad…
Social Policy and Social Citizenship: Britain's Welfare States
In Britain the imagery and rhetoric of the postwar welfare state remain powerful—citizens should have equal access to public services based on need not place of residence. Devolution is sometimes depicted as a threat to this tradition. This article shows that the immediate risk of a social policy race to the bottom is small. Moreover, because of the peculiarities of British territorial politics the traditional imagery was never borne out in pract…
Analysing vote-choice in a multinational state: National identity and territorial differentiation in the 2016 Brexit vote
Striking territorial variations in the 2016 Brexit referendum are neglected in the explanatory literature, a gap our analysis of the British Election Study (BES) helps to fill. Rather than modelling Britain as one political system, we present parallel models for England, Scotland and Wales. Typical in other multinational states, this approach is innovative for ‘British politics’. The analysis shows different variables help to explain Leave suppor…
Looking Forward or Harking Back? The Commission and the Reform of Governance in the European Union
The White Paper on European Governance can be seen as a bid to make a major contribution to the strategic leadership of the Union. By centring its deliberations and proposals on the concept of ‘governance’, the Commission signalled an intention to explore the limits of conventional hierarchical law and policy, and propose alternatives. Yet the White Paper concludes that a renewed and reinvigorated ‘Community method’ should be at the heart of EU p…
The role of law or the rule of the Court of Justice? An ‘institutional’ account of judicial politics in the European Community
This article presents a political analysis of the Court of Justice, paying particular attention to its role in the development of the Community legal system. It is predicated on the view that the Court seeks to develop and maintain certain institutional prerogatives, in this case particularly concerning the Community legal system, which has developed in some surprising directions from the framework legal system in the Treaty of Rome. However, eve…
Paradoxes of New Labour Social Policy: Toward Universal Child Care in Europe's "Most Liberal" Welfare Regime
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 13, Number 2, Summer 2006
Devolution in the United Kingdom: Statehood and Citizenship in Transition
The United Kingdom evolved as a “state of unions,” in which government arrangements were territorially varied in line with the particular circumstances of the sequence of acts of union between the core state territory of England and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. The recent devolution reforms have built on that territorial nonuniformity, embedding a number of idiosyncrasies into the devolved UK state: a lopsidedness that leaves the biggest and wea…
Crisis, what crisis? Conceptualizing crisis, UK pluri-constitutionalism and Brexit politics
Has Brexit triggered a constitutional crisis? Crisis is one of a family of concepts, including tipping points, catastrophic equilibrium and failure, identifying it as a decisive moment for overcoming contradictions and ambiguities. Across multiple UK levels – the whole state, constituent nations and different legal jurisdictions – even in ‘normal times’ the constitution has been marked by both a dominant ‘Anglo-British imaginary’ and territorial …
Incumbency and Identity: The 2021 Senedd Election
Taking place amid a global pandemic, the 2021 Senedd Election saw Welsh Labour returned as the largest party at the sixth consecutive occasion since the institution’s founding in 1999. Results for opposition parties were mixed: the Conservatives achieved their highest ever vote share but their seat tally fell short of pre-election expectations, and Plaid Cymru again made little progress. Using data from the 2021 Welsh Election Study, we explore t…
Brexit dilemmas: New opportunities and tough choices in unsettled times
Concluding the British Journal of Politics and International Relations’ (BJPIR) Brexit Special Issue, this article seeks to set the unsettled times and unexpected events associated with the Brexit in historic context and tease out the prospects for a ‘bespoke’ UK exit agreement. Drawing on classics of social science history—by Barrington Moore, Gourevitch and Davis—it reflects on ‘suppressed historic choices’ and historical periodisations. Three …
Reassessing the Social Foundations of Welfare (State) Regimes
(2001). Reassessing the Social Foundations of Welfare (State) Regimes. New Political Economy: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 409-425
Human rights, democracy and the role of the court of justice in European integration
The legal literature on European integration typically allocates disproportionate, even dominating, power to the Court. According to the conventional legal wisdom, the Court has manufactured a federal‐type constitution for Europe more or less on its own out of the unpromising material of an international treaty.1 Very few legal scholars have questioned the legitimacy of the Court's pro‐integration activism. This article challenges these assumptio…
Introduction: Studying Brexit’s causes and consequences
Symposium Introduction: The Paradox of Structure: The UK State, Society and ‘Brexit
Ostensibly motivated by ‘taking back control’, is Brexit an opportunity to enhance the UK's capacity for self‐government? If driven by an aspiration to maximise the central state's governing autonomy, it confronts a paradox: governance structures at once enable action and constrain it. Exploring this paradox of structure, this article sets Brexit in long‐term perspective. As well as reshaping its external relations, Brexit inevitably unsettles th…
Reshaping public space? Devolution and policy change in British early childhood education and care
Devolution has reshaped the ‘public space(s)’ within which policy is made in the UK, but with sometimes unexpected and paradoxical results. Focusing on the case of early childhood education and care provision, which has experienced a remarkable expansion in provision across the UK in recent years, this article analyses the impact of devolution on public policymaking. The ‘public space’ concept provides a framework within which the influence on ea…
Policy Change and Discourse in Europe: Can the EU Make a ‘Square Meal out of a Stew of Paradox
Ripening time? The Welsh Labour government between Brexit and parliamentary sovereignty
The Welsh Labour government occupies a unique position in UK territorial politics, favouring neither the status quo nor independence for Wales while advocating a new settlement for the whole state. This article provides a detailed examination of its policy, focusing on its position on the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty. Drawing from a range of documentary sources, we analyse the Welsh government’s constitutional proposals and its decision-…
Envisioning the Third Sector's Welfare Role: Critical Discourse Analysis of ‘Post‐Devolution’ Public Policy in the UK 1998–2012
Welfare state theory has struggled to come to terms with the role of the third sector. It has often categorized welfare states in terms of the pattern of interplay between state social policies and the structure of the labour market. Moreover, it has frequently offered an exclusive focus on state policy – thereby failing to substantially recognize the role of the formally organized third sector. This study offers a corrective view. Against the ba…
Images of Welfare in Law and Society: The British Welfare State in Comparative Perspective
Designed by Beveridge and built by Attlee's post‐war Labour government, the welfare state was created during the 1940s. Britain has been seen – in domestic debates and internationally – as a world first: the place where both the idea and the practice of the welfare state were invented. I draw together comparative welfare state analysis with law and society scholarship (previously largely developed in isolation from one another) – as well as using…
Is the Treaty of Maastricht an Adequate‘constitution’for the European Union
This article explores the likely impact of the Treaty of Maastricht on the institutional balance of the European Community and the new European Union. It places particular emphasis on the impact of the Treaty on the role of the European Court of Justice, an institution which has been generally ignored by political scientists. However, it does not accept the received wisdom of legal scholars concerning the Court, which suggests that the Court, act…
One step forward, two steps back? The treaty of Maastricht and the prospects for the European Union
This article falls into two parts. The first part presents an analysis of the causes of the Treaty of Maastricht. It is seen as the culmination of a process of European integration begun in the early 1980s, overlaid by the reaction of European leaders to the break‐up of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Changes in the international system and the domestic politics of the member states are interpreted as providing the opportunity for the relaun…
The European Central Bank: Constitutional Dimensions and Political Limits
The EC social charter: An alternative prospectus ‐ A response to Christopher Lingle
Book notes
Ken Coates and Michael Barratt Brown (1993) A European Recovery Programme (Spokesman: London), 1–200 pp.; ISBN 0 851 24549 8 (pbk) Svein S. Andersen and Kjell A. Eliassen (eds) (1993) Making Policy in Europe; The Europeification of National Policy‐making (London: Sage), i‐vii, 1–284 pp.; ISBN 0 8039 8970 9 (pbk) David G. Haglund (ed.) (1993) From Euphoria to Hysteria: Western European Security after the Cold War (Boulder, CO: Westview Press), i‐x…
Is the Treaty of Maastricht an Adequate‘constitution’for the European Union
This article explores the likely impact of the Treaty of Maastricht on the institutional balance of the European Community and the new European Union. It places particular emphasis on the impact of the Treaty on the role of the European Court of Justice, an institution which has been generally ignored by political scientists. However, it does not accept the received wisdom of legal scholars concerning the Court, which suggests that the Court, act…
Human rights, democracy and the role of the court of justice in European integration
The legal literature on European integration typically allocates disproportionate, even dominating, power to the Court. According to the conventional legal wisdom, the Court has manufactured a federal‐type constitution for Europe more or less on its own out of the unpromising material of an international treaty.1 Very few legal scholars have questioned the legitimacy of the Court's pro‐integration activism. This article challenges these assumptio…
The role of law or the rule of the Court of Justice? An ‘institutional’ account of judicial politics in the European Community
This article presents a political analysis of the Court of Justice, paying particular attention to its role in the development of the Community legal system. It is predicated on the view that the Court seeks to develop and maintain certain institutional prerogatives, in this case particularly concerning the Community legal system, which has developed in some surprising directions from the framework legal system in the Treaty of Rome. However, eve…
Institutional Interaction and European Integration: Towards an Everyday Critique of Liberal Inter governmentalism
Book notes
R. Amy Elman (1996) Sexual Subordination and State Intervention: Comparing Sweden and the United States (Oxford: Berghahn Books), pp. i‐xiii, 1–146; ISBN 1 57181 072 2; paper £10.95 P. Norton (ed.) (1996) National Parliaments and the European Union (London: Frank Cass), pp. 1–198; ISBN 0 71464 691 1; £20.00 Patrick Le Galès and Mark Thatcher (eds) (1995) Les Réseaux de Politique Publique. Débat autour des ‘policy networks’ (Paris: L'Harmattan), p…
Book notes
J. Pinder (1995) European Community: The Building of a Union, 2nd edn (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. i‐x, 1–277; ISBN 0 19 289265 7; £9.99 Martin Baldwin‐Edwards and Martin A. Schain (eds) (1994) The Politics of Immigration in Western Europe (Essex: Frank Cass), pp. 1–208; ISBN 0 7146 4137 5; £13.50 C. Campbell, H. Feigenbaum, R. Linden and H. Norpoth (1994) Politics and Government in Europe Today 2nd edn (Boston: Houghton Mifflin), pp. i…
Federalism and the European Union: The Scope and Limits of the Treaty of Maastricht
The Treaty of Maastricht should be understood as a political compromise in the process of European integration, rather than as a definitive legal document. This article analyzes the integrative and fragmenting elements of the Treaty and concludes that, on balance, it contains more of the latter than the former. In particular the Treaty may exacerbate the problems increasingly faced by the European Court of Justice, by forcing it to decide politic…
Structure, Agency and Historical Institutionalism
As be®ts two if its principal exponents, Hall and Taylor's recent article `Political science and the three new institutionalisms' provides a meticulous and provocative review of the many faces of the `new institutionalism' and a distinctive contribution to the growing literature in this area in its own right.* It provides an important opportunity to consider again the strengths and weaknesses of contemporary institutionalism and to raise the ques…
Wither welfare? Partisan politics, globalisation and social transformation
Comparative Public Policy: Patterns of Post‐war Transformation. Francis G. Castles. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1998. Pp.ix + 352, 29 tables, 12 figures, biblio, index. £59.95 (cloth) ISBN 1–85898–816–0; £19.95 (paper) ISBN 1–85898–823–3. Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies. Gøsta Esping‐Andersen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. ix + 207, 40 tables, biblio, index. £40 (cloth) ISBN 0–19–874201–0; £15.99 (paper) ISBN …
A Community of Law? ‘European’ Law and Judicial Politics: The Court of Justice and Beyond
OVER THE LAST DECADE AND A HALF THE PART PLAYED BY THE European Court of Justice (ECJ) in the construction and operation of the European Union has become controversial. Relatively unnoticed beyond specialist legal circles in the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s, the role of the Court featured prominently in the debates occasioned by the Treaty of Maastricht. In this article I consider the use of heroic and villainous imagery to describe the Court. Af…
Reassessing the Social Foundations of Welfare (State) Regimes
(2001). Reassessing the Social Foundations of Welfare (State) Regimes. New Political Economy: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 409-425
The Next Nature/Nurture Debate; or, Should Labour Place Mothers and Infants at the Heart of Public Policy
Looking Forward or Harking Back? The Commission and the Reform of Governance in the European Union
The White Paper on European Governance can be seen as a bid to make a major contribution to the strategic leadership of the Union. By centring its deliberations and proposals on the concept of ‘governance’, the Commission signalled an intention to explore the limits of conventional hierarchical law and policy, and propose alternatives. Yet the White Paper concludes that a renewed and reinvigorated ‘Community method’ should be at the heart of EU p…
Global Capital, Political Institutions, and Policy Change in Developed Welfare States
Journal Article Global Capital, Political Institutions, and Policy Change in Developed Welfare States Get access Daniel Wincott Daniel Wincott University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 3, Issue 4, October 2003, Pages 461–462, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbg013 Published: 01 October 2003
Slippery Concepts, Shifting Context: (National) States and Welfare in the Veit‐Wilson/Atherton Debate
The debate between Veit‐Wilson and Atherton raises key conceptual questions for the analysis of welfare states. Veit‐Wilson, in particular, focuses on the important, but strangely neglected question of when and why a state qualifies as a welfare state. Atherton usefully draws attention to historical debates about the legitimate purposes of state welfare policies and worthy recipients of state benefits, particularly in the Anglo‐Saxon countries. H…
Beyond social regulation? New instruments and/or a new agenda for social policy at Lisbon
The consistent failure to match EU market integration with social policies provoked the development of new modes of European governance for welfare provision in the early 1990s. Based on policy co‐ordination rather than integration, these new governance modes were consolidated as the ‘Open Method of Co‐ordination’ (OMC) at the Lisbon Summit in 2000. This article analyses the scope and limits of the OMC, locating it in the context of broader trend…
Policy Change and Discourse in Europe: Can the EU Make a ‘Square Meal out of a Stew of Paradox
Rebutting Intergovernmentalism … and Ensnared by It
How much difference do supranational institutions make to the development of the European Union (EU)? This deceptively straightforward question has generated intense debate among scholars (see inter alia Moravcsik 1993, 1995, 1998; Wincott 1995; Marks, Hooghe, and Blank 1996; Pierson 1996; Cram 1997; Sandholtz and Stone Sweet 1998; Rosamond 2000; Stone Sweet, Sandholtz, and Fligstein 2001; Pollack 2003). Moreover, it is at the root of considerabl…
Reshaping public space? Devolution and policy change in British early childhood education and care
Devolution has reshaped the ‘public space(s)’ within which policy is made in the UK, but with sometimes unexpected and paradoxical results. Focusing on the case of early childhood education and care provision, which has experienced a remarkable expansion in provision across the UK in recent years, this article analyses the impact of devolution on public policymaking. The ‘public space’ concept provides a framework within which the influence on ea…
Devolution and the Welfare State: Lessons from Early Childhood Education and Care Policy in Wales
The author analyses the scope and limits of the policy autonomy devolved to the Welsh Assembly Government (WAG). He engages with James Mitchell's application of Ted Lowi's seminal analysis of ‘policy types’ to Scottish devolution. These concepts are used to frame a case study of Welsh early childhood education and care (ECEC), demonstrating extensive innovation in Wales concerning the form of ECEC and its impact on compulsory schooling. However, …
Constitutionalism, European Integration and British Political Economy
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