David Green



Profile:
Full name: David G. Green

Area of interest: Civil society, (especially) welfare state, health, education

Journals: The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Times, The Sunday Telegraph and The Daily Telegraph The Daily Mail

Email: info@civitas.org.uk

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Biography:
Education:

Career: Institute of Economic Affairs from 1984, Director of the IEA Health and Welfare Unit from 1986; Labour councillor in Newcastle upon Tyne 1976/1981; Research Fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra, 1981/1983; founded Civitas, The Institute for the Study of Civil Society in 2000, see Civitas biography Current position: Director of Civitas

Advisory posts: Was a member of the Home Secretary's Crime Statistics Review Group, which in 2006 recommended improvements in the collection of the crime figures

Viewpoints/Insight:

TV/Radio: Ocassional broadcasts on programmes such as Newsnight, the Moral Maze and BBC Radio 4's Today programme
 * Newsnight discussion Sentencing Policy (transcript and video) September 2003
 * BBC4 Radio Today programme discussion: Public policy should reflect the rise in Eastern European migrants, (audio) May 2007

Controversy:

Books: Power and Party in an English City (HarperCollins, 1980) ISBN 0043520944; Mutual Aid or Welfare State (Allen & Unwin, 1984) with L. Cromwell ISBN 0868616648; Working-Class Patients and the Medical Establishment: Self-Help in Britain from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to 1948 (Palgrave Macmillan, 1986) ISBN 0312889801; The New Conservatism: The Counter-Revolution in Political, Economic and Social Thought (Palgrave Macmillan, 1987) ISBN 031200477X; Reinventing Civil Society - Choice in Welfare (Civitas, 1993) ISBN 025536279X; Community Without Politics: A Market Approach to Welfare Reform (IEA, 1996) ISBN 0255363648; Benefit Dependency: How Welfare Undermines Independence (Coronet Books, 1998) ISBN 0255364334; Delay, Denial and Dilution (Choice in Welfare) (Civitas, 1999) with Laura Casper ISBN 0255364598; An End to Welfare Rights: The Rediscovery of Independence (Civitas, 2000) ISBN 1903386799; Stakeholder Health Insurance (Civitas, 2000) ISBN 1903386071; Crime and Civil Society: Can we become a more law-abiding people? (Civitas, 2005) ISBN 1903386365; also contributed a chapter 'The Neo-Liberal Perspective' in Blackwell's The Student's Companion to Social Policy (Blackwell Publishers, 2nd ed, 2003) ISBN 1405102918

Latest work: We're (Nearly) all Victims Now: how political correctness is undermining our liberal culture (Civitas, 2006) ISBN 1903386535

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Journals: The Times, Daily Telegraph and The Guardian
Column remit: Civil society, (especially) welfare state, health, education

Role: Commentator

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Day published: Varies

Regularity: Irregular

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Articles:

 * Smith would stand by Vince Cable'' - Vince Cable is obviously in favour of a free market economy. So why is he in hot water - 23rd September 2010
 * Liberal Democrats are wrong about free schools'' - Those who wish to prevent free schools are education monopolists who know that they will not look good when comparisons start to be made - 20th September 2010
 * need to grasp the real facts about crime'' - Sound families and effective policing are the best way to cut offending - 18th July 2010
 * to arrest the grievance culture'' - Ali Dizaei's conviction allows us to see the downside of sectional pressure groups within the police - 10th February 2010
 * savings contributions would soften the blow to the taxpayer'' - In 1940 Keynes put forward the idea that, instead of raising taxes, the government should require compulsory savings contributions from all taxpayers. Our politicians should take heed - 12th December 2009
 * least someone in prison can't rob you'' - Governors have not taken into account the full costs of abolishing short sentences - 7th October 2009
 * humanity must be enough to be protected by police'' - The tragic death of Mrs Pilkington and her daughter has become a watershed moment. It's time to re-commit ourselves to equality under the law - 30th September 2009
 * to fix parliament? Stop MPs being ministers'' - A genuine separation of powers would be a big step forward in fixing the way our Parliament works - 29th May 2009
 * Equality Bill will hinder, not help'' - Not only does the Equality Bill justify preferential treatment for groups, it also undermines one of the bedrock principles of British justice: the presumption of innocence until proven guilty - 12th May 2009
 * public policies are to blame for the decline in manufacturing'' - An industrial policy is a good thing - if it is a strategy for creating the best possible conditions for free enterprise - 22nd April 2009
 * a go? Not when you could be arrested'' - 2nd September 2008
 * works. So why won't we admit it?'' - If the crime rate really is falling, there's a simple explanation. We are locking up more criminals - 18th July 2008
 * suspicions beyond 28 days'' - 1st April 2008
 * big lesson for 2008? We owe each other'' - 30th December 2007
 * have to change if society is to change'' - 26th August 2007
 * Alcohol ban is no answer; proper policing is - Policing / Causes of crime - 16th August 2007
 * Spinning the official statistics - Open government - 10th August 2007
 * Fighting freedom - Terrorism / Civil liberties - 3rd July 2007



Links:

 * Civitas blog
 * The Centre For Social Cohesion