Resignation at the Treasury
The Social Services Committee and the Failure to Reform the Welfare State, 1955-57
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2111887 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rodney Lowe (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 505-526 |
| Publication date | 1989-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Social Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-2794 • E-ISSN: 1469-7823 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0047279400001835 |
| OpenAlex | W2076601830 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 3 |
Between 1955-7 welfare expenditure in Britain came under serious attack. The main protagonist was the Treasury and its chosen implement a five-year review of the social services, to be presided over by a ministerial Social Services Committee. The attack rebounded, for the Committee provided the opportunity for the consolidation of the defence of welfare expenditure and for a frontal attack on Treasury assumptions. This neglected episode in Conservative government social policy places in historical context the early defeat of monetarism (with Thorneycroft's resignation in 1958) and provides the background to the establishment of the Plowden Committee and of the Public Expenditure Survey Committee. It also raises questions about the degree of post-war consensus and the failure to make the constructive development of the welfare state an objective of 'conviction' politics
Consolidation (business) · Context (archaeology) · Economics · Government (linguistics) · Political science · Politics · Social security · Social Welfare · State (computer science) · Treasury · Welfare · Welfare state · Finance · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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Conservative modernisation, 1960–64
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Little Local Difficulties Revisited
The 1958 treasury dispute
Learning and Change in 20th‐Century British Economic Policy
Britain in the 1950s
Post-Fordism and Welfare
Why Was a Wealth Tax for the UK Abandoned? Lessons for the Policy Process and Tackling Wealth Inequality
Individual Taste or Collective Decision? Public Policy on School Meals
Creating the Welfare State in Britain, 1945-1960
| Citations per year | 0.38 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1992 - 2012 (21) |
| Highly cited | No |