Vicky Randall, Reader, Department of Government, University of Essex

• Introducing Childcare: Questions and Themes ; The Institutional Roots of Childcare Politics ; Post-war Policy and the 'Rediscovery of Poverty' ; Childcare and Neo-liberal 'Restructuring' ; Mothers, Feminists, and the Demand for Childcare ; British Childcare Policy in Comparative Cross-national Perspectives ; Conclusion and Prospects

Illuminating account of child day-care policies and practice in Britain ... a compelling account ... a tour de force ... this book is an outstanding achievement, dealing with a much-neglected subject, revealing how the provision of child care offers an exemplary case study not just of institutional and governmental politics but also of the detrimental affects of the combination of liberalism and patriarchy ... the analysis is an adroit critique of public policy theory, with Randall taking to task traditional institutional analysis, network and community theory, and various policy typology models, showing how all fail to explain the peculiarity of child-care policy in Britain.

Vicky Randall, Reader, Department of Government, University of Essex

• Introducing Childcare: Questions and Themes ; The Institutional Roots of Childcare Politics ; Post-war Policy and the 'Rediscovery of Poverty' ; Childcare and Neo-liberal 'Restructuring' ; Mothers, Feminists, and the Demand for Childcare ; British Childcare Policy in Comparative Cross-national Perspectives ; Conclusion and Prospects

Illuminating account of child day-care policies and practice in Britain ... a compelling account ... a tour de force ... this book is an outstanding achievement, dealing with a much-neglected subject, revealing how the provision of child care offers an exemplary case study not just of institutional and governmental politics but also of the detrimental affects of the combination of liberalism and patriarchy ... the analysis is an adroit critique of public policy theory, with Randall taking to task traditional institutional analysis, network and community theory, and various policy typology models, showing how all fail to explain the peculiarity of child-care policy in Britain.

Vicky Randall, Reader, Department of Government, University of Essex

• Introducing Childcare: Questions and Themes ; The Institutional Roots of Childcare Politics ; Post-war Policy and the 'Rediscovery of Poverty' ; Childcare and Neo-liberal 'Restructuring' ; Mothers, Feminists, and the Demand for Childcare ; British Childcare Policy in Comparative Cross-national Perspectives ; Conclusion and Prospects

Illuminating account of child day-care policies and practice in Britain ... a compelling account ... a tour de force ... this book is an outstanding achievement, dealing with a much-neglected subject, revealing how the provision of child care offers an exemplary case study not just of institutional and governmental politics but also of the detrimental affects of the combination of liberalism and patriarchy ... the analysis is an adroit critique of public policy theory, with Randall taking to task traditional institutional analysis, network and community theory, and various policy typology models, showing how all fail to explain the peculiarity of child-care policy in Britain.