Hyde, Mark

Mark Hyde is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management at the Plymouth Business School, University of Plymouth. He obtained his Ph.D. in Public Policy from Council for National Academic Awards and Economic and Social Research Council.

Comparing How Various Nations Administer Retirement Income: Essays on Social Security

2010 0-7734-3727-4
This book makes an innovative contribution to the field of retirement income security in three distinctive ways. First, it seeks to develop a sophisticated philosophical rationale for the social dimension, in the context of retirement. Such a rationale is frequently implicit in much of the relevant literature, and where explicit, is often crudely developed. Second, it seeks to identify robustly the ways in which specific forms of privatisation promote outcomes that are consistent with the social dimension, whilst acknowledging the possibility of market failure. Third, it seeks to provide an agenda for reform, based on robustly developed normative arguments, and a careful appraisal of the evidence.

Privatization of Mandatory Retirement Income Protection

2006 0-7734-5838-7
Addresses an area of social policy that is relatively new and thus under-developed in the relevant literature. It covers all pension arrangements from a multi-disciplinary perspective, rather than from economic analysis. Several published works do deal explicitly with privately delivered compulsory pensions, but that literature is incomplete.

Social Construction of Road Safety: Lay and Professional Discourses in a Public Services Setting

2016 1-4955-0446-8
This book makes substantive contributions to the emergent field of road-safety issues, as well as the wider and established field of public policy. This empirically based, comprehensive and multidisciplinary study focuses on the challenging issues of road safety from the technical professional and lay-person perspectives. A truly fascinating work.