caa a22 4500 475841921 CHVBK 20180406123903.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20001201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1026595216507 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1026595216507 Solidarity, Society and the Welfare State in the United Kingdom [Elektronische Daten] [Richard Ashcroft, Alastair Campbell, Susan Jones] Political argument and institutions in the UnitedKingdom have frequently been represented as the products of ablend of nationalistic conservatism, liberal individualism andsocialism, in which consensus has been prized over ideology. This situation changed, as the standard story has it, with therise of Thatcherism in the late 1970s, and again with the arrivalof Tony Blair's 's'sNew Labour'' pragmatism in the late 1990s. Solidarity as an element of political discourse makes itsappearance in the UK late in the day. It has been most stronglylinked to the Third Way debate, as framed most influentially inthe work of Prof. Anthony Giddens.In this paper we review the history and pre-history of the debateon solidarity in the UK, focussing mostly on its implications forwelfare state reform. In particular we discuss the proposals forthe long-term care of the Elderly issued by the Royal Commissionon long-term care in 1999. In this context we critically examinethe idea that solidarity is a new concept in British politicalculture, and that it is a concept which has real political 's'sbite''in the project of welfare reform. We examine this through aconsideration of Giddens's attempted synthesis of politicalargument and social theory. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 health care nationallicence long-term care nationallicence philosophy nationallicence solidarity nationallicence Third Way nationallicence United Kingdom nationallicence Ashcroft Richard Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice, Imperial College School of Medicine, Norfolk Place, W2 1PG, London aut Campbell Alastair Centre for Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol, 73 St Michael's Hill, BS2 8BH, Bristol aut Jones Susan Centre for Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol, 73 St Michael's Hill, BS2 8BH, Bristol aut Health Care Analysis Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/4(2000-12-01), 377-394 1065-3058 8:4<377 2000 8 10728 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026595216507 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026595216507 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ashcroft Richard Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice, Imperial College School of Medicine, Norfolk Place, W2 1PG, London aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Campbell Alastair Centre for Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol, 73 St Michael's Hill, BS2 8BH, Bristol aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Jones Susan Centre for Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol, 73 St Michael's Hill, BS2 8BH, Bristol aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Health Care Analysis Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/4(2000-12-01), 377-394 1065-3058 8:4<377 2000 8 10728 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer