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Social Policy and Risk David M. O'Brien highlights the book's strengths andThis text applies ideas of risk as expressed by theorists such as Beck and Foucault to changes in welfare. The author demonstrates how neo liberals have used aspects of risk to attack welfare dependency and shows how rhetorics of risk have been used to reshape contemporary politics. He challenges the apparently common sense dominance of neo liberal arguments in social policy and argues that the underlying philosophy of neo liberalism is individual