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Pete Alcock
Publications - 10
Citations - 156
Pete Alcock is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social policy & State (polity). The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 10 publications receiving 154 citations.
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Charles Murray and the Underclass : The Developing Debate
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Why citizenship and welfare rights offer new hope for new welfare in Britain
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors outline the prospects for new political strategies for state welfare in Britain in the 1990s, based upon the notion of citizenship and the idea of right to welfare as alternatives to...
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Socialist security: where should we be going and why?
TL;DR: A survey of the social security reform proposals can be found in this article, where the authors look at some of the problems of the major proposals for reform and suggest the basis for a socialist response.
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The end of the line for social security: the Thatcherite restructuring of welfare:
TL;DR: It is now becoming increasingly clear that the underlying aim of Thatcherism has been revealed as discussed by the authors, at the end of a decade in which major changes have been made in all aspects of social and economic policy.
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Take-up campaigns: fighting poverty through the post:
Pete Alcock,Jane Shepherd +1 more
TL;DR: A critical review of the increasing number of Take-up Campaigns being run by local authorities in the 1980s in order to increase the levels of benefit take-up within their area is given in this article.