Books
Page, R.M. (2015) Clear Blue Water? The Conservative Party and the Welfare State Since 1940: Policy: Bristol, 201pp.
Page, R.M. (2015) Stigma (new.edn), Psychology Press: Brighton and New York, 207pp.
Chapters in Books
`”Good solid Conservatism”: Theresa May’s “doctrine” and her approach to the welfare state’ in Needham, C., Heins, E. and Rees, J. (eds), Social Policy Review 30. Bristol: Policy, 2018, pp.111-130.
`Social policy’ in Crines, A.S. and Hickson, K. (eds), Harold Wilson – The Unprincipled Prime Minister? London: Biteback, 2016, pp. 149-64.
`”Progressive” neo-liberal conservatism and the welfare state: incremental reform or long-term destruction?’ In Fenger, M., Hudson, J. and Needham, C. (eds), Social Policy Review 28. Bristol: Policy, 2016, pp. 89-105.
`Equality’ in Hickson, K. (ed) Rebuilding Social Democracy. Bristol: Policy, 2016 pp. 25-42.
`The coming of age of progressive neo-liberal Conservative `welfarism’ under the Coalition government of 2010-15’ in L.Foster, A.Brunton, C.Deeming and T.Haux (eds) In Defence of Welfare 2. Policy:Bristol, 2015, pp.52-4.
`The coalition, poverty and social security’ in M Beech and S Lee (eds) The Conservative-Liberal Coalition: Examining the Cameron-Clegg Government. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2015, pp.68-85.
`Conservative governments and the welfare state since 1945’ in H.Bochel and G. Daly (eds), Social Policy (3rd edn). Routledge: London, 2014, pp.143-69).
`Labour governments and the welfare state since 1945’ in H.Bochel and G.Daly (eds) Social Policy (3rd edn). Routledge: London, 2014, pp. 170-97.
Articles
`Blue and Purple challenges to the welfare state. How should “statist” Social Democrats respond?’ Social Policy & Society, 14: 3, 2015, pp.341-56 (with Matt Beech).
`Progressive turns in post-1945 Conservative social policy’, Political Studies Review, 12: 1, 2014, pp.17-28.
`Running out of road? Dilemmas and issues for the British Labour Party and the Swedish Social Democrats in their search for a “modern” welfare state narrative’, Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, 30: 2, 2014, pp. 107-26.
Short pieces
`Tawney, R.H. (1880-1962) in Ritzer, G. and Rojek, C. (eds) The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Sociology, (2nd edition), 2019.
`A radical crisis for the subject of social policy? Social Policy Association 50th Anniversary Blog Series No.16, 5th February, 2018. http://www.social-policy.org.uk/50-for-50/radical-crisis/
Book Reviews
R. Carr (2014) One Nation Britain: History, the Progressive Tradition, and Practical Ideas for Today’s Politicians. Ashgate: Farnham in Party Politics (forthcoming 2016).
S.Sheard (2014) The Passioinate Economist: How Brian Abel-Smith Shaped Global Health and Social Welfare. Policy: Bristol, in Journal of Social Policy, 44: 1, 2015, pp.196-98.
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