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Communicating Poverty
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation's Public Interest in Poverty Issues programme (PiPi) aims to secure and strengthen public support for alleviating poverty in the UK. This research project informed the programme through two stages of qualitative research. The first involved an evaluation of existing public attitudes to UK poverty, and the second employed a more creative approach to identify messages which might resonate with the public on the issue and thereby generate a more favourable climate of opinion for anti-poverty policies.
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A New British Model?
There is increasing interest in comparing the different approaches to balancing economic and social welfare priorities across countries in Europe and beyond. This has led to new models that have attempted to explain and classify the current government's approach in Britain. For example, Will Hutton has talked about the "social democratising" of the Anglo-Saxon model, and last year Nick Pearce (Director of ippr) and colleagues outlined the "Anglo-Social Model". This describes the approach as an attempt to combine the economic performance and flexibility of liberal welfare states with the social protection and equality of Scandinavian countries.
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Physical Capital: Liveability in 2005
In 2002, MORI Social Research Institute published our first report on Liveability, called "The Rising Prominence of Liveability - Are we condemned to a life of grime". Three years on, we revisit a subject area that has grown in importance to policy makers in key government departments. Our analysis is telling, and indeed, encouraging. Local government has woken up to its problems on the central Liveability issues and people are starting to notice changes on the ground.
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Life satisfaction and trust in other people
This report looks at two very current issues in social policy life satisfaction and trust in others. These issues link into a number of debates, particularly how we measure the progress and impact of policy in a more rounded way and how we can reverse the apparent decline in feelings of community cohesion and citizenship.