Social investment perspectives and practices:

Social Innovation: Redesigning the Welfare Diamond

“…The United Kingdom, after 1997, was a convert to the social investment perspective (Dobrowolsky and Jenson, 2005). The pattern of social innovations in the childcare domain has differed from that of Sweden, however, because the United Kingdom has historically been one of the European countries that relied most on private forms of financing services as well as for providing them (OECD, 2005, p. 93).…”

Governing under advanced liberalism: sport policy and the social investment state

“…In this respect, a growing number of writers (cf. Dobrowolsky 2002;Dobrowolsky and Jenson 2005;Featherstone 2006;Jenson 2005;Jenson andSaint-Martin 2003, 2006;Lister 2003Lister , 2004 have provided insights into, and critiques of, Anthony Giddens' (1998a, b) articulation of a ''social investment state''. Although Giddens played a leading role in communicating to New Labour the salience of Third Way politics and social investment strategies, the antecedents of the Party's embrace of social investment thinking can be traced back to the brief leadership of the late John Smith who established the Commission on Social Justice (CSJ) in 1992.…”

“…This article therefore centres on an investigation of the ways in which sport policy is now being utilised in the key policy sectors of education and health, both of which are central to New Labour's social investment strategies (cf. Dobrowolsky and Jenson 2005). Indeed, promoting healthier communities and tackling health inequalities is a shared priority of local, regional and national governmental authorities across the UK (Sport England 2006c).…”

“…Dobrowolsky and Jenson 2005), citizenship (cf. Dwyer 1998), the family (Featherstone 2006) and poverty/ employment (Jenson 2005;Lister 2004).…”

Student-parents and higher education: a cross-national comparison

“…(Staff member 2, Newer University, Denmark). In contrast, within the UK, the shift from a male breadwinner model of gender relations to a more equal 'adult worker' model has been significantly slower (Lewis, 2001;Dobrowolsky and Jensen, 2005).…”