The State at one Remove

A major boundary change took place in social policy when Statutory Sick Pay replaced Sickness Benefit. When proposed in 1980, it met with much resistance from interest groups but since its introduction in 1983, relatively little attention has been paid to it. This paper argues that there are implications which need to be examined when a shift takes place from welfare state provision to welfare society provision in which the emphasis is on an interlocking of public and private sector arrangements. There are numerous ways in which the State and private sectors operate either separately or together in the provision of welfare. They range from those in which the State has a monopoly, as is the case for example in supplementary benefits, to those in which it is dominant but co-exists with a separate private sector, as in the case of the National Health Service or education, to those where there are partnership arrangements as for example, between State and occupational pensions, through to those where State provision is devolved to other agencies or where the role of the State is to regulate private provision

Agency (philosophy · Business · Economic growth · Economics · General partnership · Market economy · Monopoly · Political science · Politics · Private sector · Public economics · Social policy · Social Welfare · Sociology · State (computer science · Statutory law · Welfare · Welfare state · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Law · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Finance

• The Market Provision of Mandatory Social Security

  Open Access•John Dixon, Alexander Kouzmin•Review of Policy Research•2002

  Add to list

• Back to the Future

  Open Access•Peter Taylor-Gooby, Susan Lakeman•Journal of Social Policy•1988

  Add to list