Mooney, Gerry and Williams, Charlotte
(2006).
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1177/0261018306065611 |
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Abstract
This paper explores the ways in which social policy is being used to recreate and reproduce a sense of nation and national identity in devolved Scotland and Wales. It argues that devolution has important consequences for our sense of Britishness and of Scottishness and Welshness, not least in relation to the ways in which social policies are presented and legitimated. It is further argued that across the UK there is a marked attempt by New Labour to forge a new sense of nation organized around neo-liberal and market-oriented themes. This is critically mediated within the welfare regimes of these nations in accord with reconstructed ‘ways of life’ that are centred on the themes of work and enterprise.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| ISSN: | 0261-0183 |
| Keywords: | nation; neo-liberalism; New Labour; Scotland; Wales; welfare |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Social Sciences > Social Policy and Criminology |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research (ICCCR) OpenSpace Research Centre (OSRC) |
| Item ID: | 17688 |
| Depositing User: | Users 7185 not found. |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Jul 2009 09:07 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Oct 2012 13:09 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/17688 |
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