Social citizenship in an age of welfare regionalism: the state of the social union.

This book provides a comprehensive socio-legal analysis of the transformation in social security policies within the UK over the last decade, with a particular emphasis on the reforms taking place in Scotland and Northern Ireland. The study delves into the ramifications of devolving social protection functions and policies to subnational regions from the perspective of social citizenship, as initially conceived by the British sociologist TH Marshall. Marshall's concepts of social citizenship were primarily developed in post-WWII Britain and were framed from the standpoint of an English male. However, his work had several omissions, such as gender considerations, territorial politics, and intergovernmental relations. Marshall never addressed social security issues in Northern Ireland (as pointed out by Mark Simpson on p.32). It is this gap in Marshall's work that Mark Simpson endeavours to explore.