Public Spending and Social Policy

The United Kingdom 1950-1977

Bibliographic Data

ID2111841
AuthorsFrank Gould, Barbara Roweth
Year1980
Volume9
Issue3
Pages337-357
Publication date1980-07-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Social Policy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-2794 • E-ISSN: 1469-7823
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0047279400001379
PMID10297920
OpenAlexW2148693991
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited12

This article, in which we examine developments in public expenditure on social policy in relation to total public spending in the United Kingdom (UK) in the period after the Second World War, is part of a larger international study on developments in social welfare spending on which we are currently engaged.In Section 1 we briefly sketch in the theoretical background to the study of public expenditure growth in general and social welfare spending in particular. We shall not in this article attempt to evaluate the validity of the competing hypotheses - this exercise is in hand as part of the international study, and we shall report the findings at a later date. Section 2 examines the growth of public expenditure in the UK at the aggregate level. In Section 3 we analyse public expenditure at the individual programme level and in Section 4 we summarize the conclusions

Aggregate expenditure · Business · Economic growth · Economics · Kingdom · Macroeconomics · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Public expenditure · Public finance · Public policy · Public spending · Public welfare · Section (typography) · Sketch · Social policy · Social Welfare · Welfare · Global Health Care Issues · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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