Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; List of Figures; Introduction: The Crisis of the Welfare State in the Postmodern Condition; Social Policy and the Move to Community; Democracy and Community-based Social Policy; Welfare and the Future of Community: The New Zealand Experiment; The New Right Reforms of Education; The Politics of Choice: Public Choice Theory and the Autonomous Chooser; Children of Rogernomics: The New Right, Individualism and the Culture of Narcissism; From Education to Evaluation: The Ideal Learning Community
Summary
Examining, in the widest sense, the changes in political philosophy that have occurred in Western capitalist states since the early 1980s, this book focuses on the introduction of neo-liberal principles in the combined area of social and education
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-233) and index
