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posted on 2018-07-31, 11:44 authored by Peter T. WelshThis thesis presents a comparative analysis of the relationship between party political
ideology and changing family policies during the 1980s and 1990s in France, the UK
and Spain. It explores theoretical perspectives on political ideology, policy analysis
and policy change. Different disciplinary approaches to the analysis of public policy
are reviewed in relation to policy change and ideologies. The thesis tests theories of
ideology by applying them in three substantive case studies of family policy change in
France, the UK and Spain. Each case study analyses the manifestos of the major
political parties in relation to eight family policy instruments, pro-family statements
and their position in relation to the opposing state intervention dimensions of
public/private and family/individual. The policy measures are further considered
within two dimensions: regulatory and support. [Continues.]
Funding
University of Mannheim, Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), Training and Mobility for Young Researchers Rrogramme (TMR), 'Family and the Welfare State in Europe'.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Politics and International Studies
Publisher
© Peter T. WelshPublisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
1999Notes
A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy at Loughborough University.Language
- en