Sally Ruane
Biographic Data
| ID | 4190611 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sally Ruane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sally |
| FAMILY NAME | Ruane |
| SIGNATURE | RUANE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | De Montfort University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4248-1776 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Assessing the UK Labour Government’s Tax Policies in Its First Year in Office
The article examines the tax policies the UK Labour government pursued in its first year in office in the context of its economic and fiscal inheritance. It presents the promises of the 2024 Labour Party Manifesto and the government’s main tax policies to June 2025. The article considers several possible interpretations of the government’s tax policies including the desire both to raise revenues and to establish fiscal credibility and assesses wh…
Some Useful Sources
Throughout this themed section we have examined a number of key social policy challenges in relation to the role that taxation measures and choices play, or can play, in shaping responses to them. The following is a list of learning and research resources on topics that are central to these themes. For the most part, we have focused on recently published contributions
Introduction
This Social Policy and Society themed section examines a number of key social policy challenges in relation to the role that taxation measures and choices play, or can play, in shaping responses to them. Although the role of taxation is frequently recognised in assessments of these issues, it remains under-explored within social policy scholarship. The themed section offers an opportunity to explore the relevance of taxation policy design and cho…
Redistribution and the Tax System
This article problematises two concepts frequently used in debates about resource allocation. The term ‘system’ evokes a ‘unified whole’ and emphasises interaction among the different component parts within the system. However, the notion of a tax system insulated from the world around it obstructs an analysis of the ways in which interactions of tax arrangements with other elements of society shape distributional outcomes. The article argues tha…
Taxation and Social Need
Against a backdrop of multiple concurrent challenges shared by many high-income societies, including inadequate social care for an ageing population and unprecedented waiting lists for health care, the UK’s experience of the short-lived Health and Social Care Levy is used as a case study to reveal how the relationship between taxation and social need is complex, mediated by a range of factors, and how these contributed to its abolition. The artic…
Some Useful Sources
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Introduction
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The Centrality of Taxation to Social Policy
The article reviews the limited existing social policy literature on taxation and sets out a case for the incorporation of the study of taxation into the accepted remit of social policy. Social policy has historically been concerned with the services and benefits which flow from public expenditure, and people’s experiences of them, rather than with taxation, and the contributions by individual researchers have tended to remain marginal to the mai…
Bringing Corporate Welfare In’ – and Pushing Further at the Boundaries of Social Policy
Kevin Farnsworth (this volume) exhorts us to recognise that corporations (by which he means any private company regardless of its ownership structure) are recipients of welfare provision in various forms: financial and in-kind, direct and indirect. He argues that a recognition of this by businesses, governments and the social policy community can foster greater complementarity in corporate and individual welfare measures and also potentially legi…
Social Policy Review 24
This edition of Social Policy Review marks the 40th anniversary of a publication from the UK Social Policy Association devoted to presenting an up-to-date and diverse review of the best in social policy scholarship. It includes a special Anniversary Preface celebrating the publication's evolution and distinctive contributions. Continuing its reputation as a cutting edge, international publication in social policy, Part One of this edition analyse…
Corporate and political strategy in relation to the Private Finance Initiative in the UK
The Private Finance Initiative (PFI) allows corporations to access guaranteed flows of public funds in exchange for the use of new facilities and the provision of asset-based services such as maintenance and estates management. The policy has been developed in the UK since 1992 and has been applied in fields of social policy analysis: notably, health and education. PFI has been a difficult policy to make work and since its introduction, governmen…
A clear public mission? Public-private partnerships and the recommodification of the NHS
IT WAS AUGUST AND THE SILLY SEASON, so it was perhaps not clear at first whether the news from the Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle, was a spoof or not. Collapsing ceilings? Flooding sewerage? No air conditioning and an indoor temperature of 33 degrees centigrade (thanks to a transparent roof)? A beds crisis in August? Unfortunately, far from spoof, this was the real life experience of a shining flagship development of the Private Finance Initiativ…
Acquiescence and opposition
Drawing upon interview data collected in late 1998, this article examines the absence of effective opposition to the introduction of the private finance initiative (PFI) in the UK National Health Service (NHS). Despite the political sensitivity of radical change in the NHS, the involvement of big business and the problems associated with PFI, the policy has met with limited opposition from public and politicians. Whilst several Trust managers and…
Public-private boundaries and the transformation of the NHS
This article uses an examination of the changing boundaries between the public and the private in health-care to argue that developments of a transformative character are taking place in the NHS. Rather than fo cusing on principles such as comprehensiveness and universality, it con siders the collectivism of funding and the production of health-care to be the central features of the NHS in 1948. It is these which are now being eroded. This explor…
Mercado reforma y privatización en el Sistema Nacional de Salud inglés
El artículo examina la evolución de la mercantilización y la privatización del Sistema Nacional de Sanidad (SNS) en Inglaterra, sobre todo desde 1997. Explora el uso de la competencia y la subcontratación de servicios auxiliares y el uso en los servicios públicos de financiación privada para desarrollos de capital a través de la Iniciativa de Financiación Privado. Una parte sustancial del artículo examina la repetida reestructuración del sistema …
Acquiescence and opposition
Drawing upon interview data collected in late 1998, this article examines the absence of effective opposition to the introduction of the private finance initiative (PFI) in the UK National Health Service (NHS). Despite the political sensitivity of radical change in the NHS, the involvement of big business and the problems associated with PFI, the policy has met with limited opposition from public and politicians. Whilst several Trust managers and…
Public-private boundaries and the transformation of the NHS
This article uses an examination of the changing boundaries between the public and the private in health-care to argue that developments of a transformative character are taking place in the NHS. Rather than fo cusing on principles such as comprehensiveness and universality, it con siders the collectivism of funding and the production of health-care to be the central features of the NHS in 1948. It is these which are now being eroded. This explor…
The Centrality of Taxation to Social Policy
The article reviews the limited existing social policy literature on taxation and sets out a case for the incorporation of the study of taxation into the accepted remit of social policy. Social policy has historically been concerned with the services and benefits which flow from public expenditure, and people’s experiences of them, rather than with taxation, and the contributions by individual researchers have tended to remain marginal to the mai…
Introduction
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
Corporate and political strategy in relation to the Private Finance Initiative in the UK
The Private Finance Initiative (PFI) allows corporations to access guaranteed flows of public funds in exchange for the use of new facilities and the provision of asset-based services such as maintenance and estates management. The policy has been developed in the UK since 1992 and has been applied in fields of social policy analysis: notably, health and education. PFI has been a difficult policy to make work and since its introduction, governmen…
Mercado reforma y privatización en el Sistema Nacional de Salud inglés
El artículo examina la evolución de la mercantilización y la privatización del Sistema Nacional de Sanidad (SNS) en Inglaterra, sobre todo desde 1997. Explora el uso de la competencia y la subcontratación de servicios auxiliares y el uso en los servicios públicos de financiación privada para desarrollos de capital a través de la Iniciativa de Financiación Privado. Una parte sustancial del artículo examina la repetida reestructuración del sistema …
A clear public mission? Public-private partnerships and the recommodification of the NHS
IT WAS AUGUST AND THE SILLY SEASON, so it was perhaps not clear at first whether the news from the Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle, was a spoof or not. Collapsing ceilings? Flooding sewerage? No air conditioning and an indoor temperature of 33 degrees centigrade (thanks to a transparent roof)? A beds crisis in August? Unfortunately, far from spoof, this was the real life experience of a shining flagship development of the Private Finance Initiativ…
Mercado reforma y privatización en el Sistema Nacional de Salud inglés
El artículo examina la evolución de la mercantilización y la privatización del Sistema Nacional de Sanidad (SNS) en Inglaterra, sobre todo desde 1997. Explora el uso de la competencia y la subcontratación de servicios auxiliares y el uso en los servicios públicos de financiación privada para desarrollos de capital a través de la Iniciativa de Financiación Privado. Una parte sustancial del artículo examina la repetida reestructuración del sistema …
Public-private boundaries and the transformation of the NHS
This article uses an examination of the changing boundaries between the public and the private in health-care to argue that developments of a transformative character are taking place in the NHS. Rather than fo cusing on principles such as comprehensiveness and universality, it con siders the collectivism of funding and the production of health-care to be the central features of the NHS in 1948. It is these which are now being eroded. This explor…
Acquiescence and opposition
Drawing upon interview data collected in late 1998, this article examines the absence of effective opposition to the introduction of the private finance initiative (PFI) in the UK National Health Service (NHS). Despite the political sensitivity of radical change in the NHS, the involvement of big business and the problems associated with PFI, the policy has met with limited opposition from public and politicians. Whilst several Trust managers and…
A clear public mission? Public-private partnerships and the recommodification of the NHS
IT WAS AUGUST AND THE SILLY SEASON, so it was perhaps not clear at first whether the news from the Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle, was a spoof or not. Collapsing ceilings? Flooding sewerage? No air conditioning and an indoor temperature of 33 degrees centigrade (thanks to a transparent roof)? A beds crisis in August? Unfortunately, far from spoof, this was the real life experience of a shining flagship development of the Private Finance Initiativ…
Corporate and political strategy in relation to the Private Finance Initiative in the UK
The Private Finance Initiative (PFI) allows corporations to access guaranteed flows of public funds in exchange for the use of new facilities and the provision of asset-based services such as maintenance and estates management. The policy has been developed in the UK since 1992 and has been applied in fields of social policy analysis: notably, health and education. PFI has been a difficult policy to make work and since its introduction, governmen…
Social Policy Review 24
This edition of Social Policy Review marks the 40th anniversary of a publication from the UK Social Policy Association devoted to presenting an up-to-date and diverse review of the best in social policy scholarship. It includes a special Anniversary Preface celebrating the publication's evolution and distinctive contributions. Continuing its reputation as a cutting edge, international publication in social policy, Part One of this edition analyse…
Bringing Corporate Welfare In’ – and Pushing Further at the Boundaries of Social Policy
Kevin Farnsworth (this volume) exhorts us to recognise that corporations (by which he means any private company regardless of its ownership structure) are recipients of welfare provision in various forms: financial and in-kind, direct and indirect. He argues that a recognition of this by businesses, governments and the social policy community can foster greater complementarity in corporate and individual welfare measures and also potentially legi…
Some Useful Sources
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Introduction
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
The Centrality of Taxation to Social Policy
The article reviews the limited existing social policy literature on taxation and sets out a case for the incorporation of the study of taxation into the accepted remit of social policy. Social policy has historically been concerned with the services and benefits which flow from public expenditure, and people’s experiences of them, rather than with taxation, and the contributions by individual researchers have tended to remain marginal to the mai…
Taxation and Social Need
Against a backdrop of multiple concurrent challenges shared by many high-income societies, including inadequate social care for an ageing population and unprecedented waiting lists for health care, the UK’s experience of the short-lived Health and Social Care Levy is used as a case study to reveal how the relationship between taxation and social need is complex, mediated by a range of factors, and how these contributed to its abolition. The artic…
Some Useful Sources
Throughout this themed section we have examined a number of key social policy challenges in relation to the role that taxation measures and choices play, or can play, in shaping responses to them. The following is a list of learning and research resources on topics that are central to these themes. For the most part, we have focused on recently published contributions
Introduction
This Social Policy and Society themed section examines a number of key social policy challenges in relation to the role that taxation measures and choices play, or can play, in shaping responses to them. Although the role of taxation is frequently recognised in assessments of these issues, it remains under-explored within social policy scholarship. The themed section offers an opportunity to explore the relevance of taxation policy design and cho…
Redistribution and the Tax System
This article problematises two concepts frequently used in debates about resource allocation. The term ‘system’ evokes a ‘unified whole’ and emphasises interaction among the different component parts within the system. However, the notion of a tax system insulated from the world around it obstructs an analysis of the ways in which interactions of tax arrangements with other elements of society shape distributional outcomes. The article argues tha…
Assessing the UK Labour Government’s Tax Policies in Its First Year in Office
The article examines the tax policies the UK Labour government pursued in its first year in office in the context of its economic and fiscal inheritance. It presents the promises of the 2024 Labour Party Manifesto and the government’s main tax policies to June 2025. The article considers several possible interpretations of the government’s tax policies including the desire both to raise revenues and to establish fiscal credibility and assesses wh…
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