"This is an excellent edited collection. A major achievement is that it recognises the accountability of the individual and collective actors complicit in these processes that create and reproduce social inequalities and divisions." Journal of Social Policy "...this is an excellent book, making a valuable contribution to a 'new' literature on social policy in the 'new' Scotland. This collection will be a key source for undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers, academics and policy makers in Scotland and beyond." Urban Studies "This is a timely volume on social policy under devolution, based on informed critical analyses. It does not make comfortable reading for those seeking simple governance solutions alone, but offers ideas and visions of an alternative social strategy of relevance and transferability to other devolved territories." Mike Danson, Centre for Contemporary European Studies, University of Paisley "This book is a key source for undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers, academics and policy makers who are based in or intersted in social policy in the devolved administrations of the UK, particularly, but not exclusively, in Scotland." Journal of Social Policy "It is refreshing to have this substantial and trenchant book written from a critical perspective. ... The book will be a useful briefing and stimulus to thought for all involved in Scottish politics and policy... [a] valuable edited collection." Scottish Affairs, No. 56, Summer 2006.