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What will ‘taking back control’ mean for social policy in the UK? Brexit, public services and social rights
- Source :
- Journal of European Social Policy. 30:509-517
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2020.
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Abstract
- While social policy falls predominantly under national rather than European Union (EU) jurisdiction, there are nonetheless multiple ways in which social policy and social outcomes in EU member states have been affected by EU membership. This paper draws on existing evidence and analysis to review the consequences for UK social policy of the decision to leave the EU. We focus predominantly on the implications of the British government’s pledge to ‘take back control’ of money, borders and laws. Our conclusion is that Brexit is likely to have negative effects on the quality of public services and, for some groups in particular, social rights, and that these effects are likely to be greater the more distant are the future trading and wider relationships between the UK and the EU27.
- Subjects :
- Jurisdiction
05 social sciences
Control (management)
General Social Sciences
Social rights
Welfare state
HJ Public Finance
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Brexit
Political economy
Political science
0502 economics and business
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JZ International relations
030212 general & internal medicine
050207 economics
European union
Social policy
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Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14617269 and 09589287
- Volume :
- 30
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of European Social Policy
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....51b854b7afa44b630652638bcd635ea8