Social Policy Review 25

Gaby Ramia is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Government at the University of Sydney. His research is in comparative and international social policy.Kevin Farnsworth is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Sheffield. His research interests cover the political economy of global and comparative social/public policy.Zoe Irving is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Social Policy at the University of Sheffield. Her research explores the relationship between size and shape in welfare states.

• Part One: Contemporary debates and developments in the UKIntroducing Universal Credit ~ Paul SpickerReconciling fuel poverty and climate change policy under the Coalition government: Green Deal or no deal? ~ Carolyn Snell and Harriet ThomsonDoctors in the driving seat? Reforms in NHS primary care and commissioning ~ Elke HeinsFinancing later life: pensions, care, housing equity and the new politics of old age ~ Debora Price and Lynne LivseyPart Two: Contributions from the Social Policy Association/East Asian Social Policy Research Network Conference of 2012It’s time to move on from ‘race’? The official ‘invisibilisation’ of minority ethnic disadvantage ~ Gary Craig and Maggie O’NeillCorporations as political actors: new perspectives for health policy research ~ Ben Hawkins and Anne Roemer-MahlerSquare pegs and round holes: extending existing typologies fails to capture the complexities of Chinese social policy ~ Dan Horsfall and Sabrina ChaiThe Earned Income Tax Credit as an anti-poverty programme: palliative or cure? ~ Phyllis JeroslowSocial policy and culture: the cases of Japan and South Korea ~ Nam K. JoLoad-shedding and reloading: changes in government responsibility – the case of Israeli immigration and integration policy, 2004–10 ~ Ilana ShpaizmanPart Three: Themed section: work, employment and insecurity‘What unemployment means’ three decades and two recessions later ~ Adrian SinfieldPrecarious employment and EU employment regulation ~ Julia S. O’ConnorHow do activation policies affect social citizenship? The issue of autonomy ~ Silke Bothfeld and Sigrid BetzeltModernising social security for lone parents: avoiding fertility and unemployment traps when reforming social policy in Northern Europe ~ Anders Freundt, Simon Grundt Straubinger and Jon KvistWomen, families and the ‘Great Recession’ in the UK ~ Susan Harkness

"The choice of papers is evidence of an increasing internationalisation of the Social Policy Association. ..All of the chapters address important questions" Malcolm Torry, Basic Income News