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CALL FOR PAPERS
European Social Policy (ESPAnet) Conference
'Changing European Societies - The Role for Social Policy'
Copenhagen, 13th -15th November 2003
Historical Dimensions of Social Policy
The European Social Policy Network is holding a conference in Copenhagen between 13th and 15th November 2003 entitled 'Changing European Societies - The Role for Social Policy' (full details www.sfi.dk/espanet). We invite abstracts (maximum of 250 words by 1 June 2003) for the session(s) that we are convening on the broad theme of 'Historical Dimensions of Social Policy'. We are exploring the possibility of a special issue of a journal as a publishing outlet for the session. Papers exploring any aspect of the relationship between history and social policy will be welcomed - and priority will also be given to cross-national papers - but we especially encourage those with one or more of the following themes:
1. theoretical perspectives - can historical analyses illuminate contemporary theoretical perspectives, for example is 'path dependency' anything more than what historians understand as structure and causality?
2. history and contemporary policy - can an understanding of the formulation and implementation of past policies aid an understanding of contemporary policy issues?
3. counterfactual history ('what if?') - would the British National Health Service have taken the same shape had Aneurin Bevan NOT been Minister of Health?
Proposals, which are invited from colleagues at all stages of their careers, should be sent to the session convenors, Martin Powell (University of Bath, [log in to unmask]) and John Stewart (Oxford Brookes University, [log in to unmask]); and the conference organiser Jon Kvist ([log in to unmask]).
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