Year: 2015
Type: other
Abstract: First paragraph: The “vow” that the main UK party leaders made to boost the powers of the Scottish parliament in the days before the independence referendum started a sequence of events that will see welfare benefits vary across different parts of the UK. This is an outcome that would have horrified the fathers of the post-war welfare consensus, but is perhaps an inevitable consequence of its gradual erosion since the late 1970s. Acces this article on The Conversation website: https://theconversation.com/why-scotland-is-unlikely-to-become-a-welfare-paradise-37738
Author: David Bell
Institution: University of Stirling
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2528496566