This article explores the conceptualisation of choice as autonomy using three components – self-reflection, active decision-making, and quality and range of options - and investigates empirical inequalities in autonomy, using newly-collected data for the UK. ‘Choice’ has been promoted in...

This CASEbrief summarises the responses to 'The pensions Green Paper - A new contract for welfare: partnership in pensions' made by members of CASE in CASEpaper 23, 'Tightropes and tripwires: New Labour's proposals and means-testing in old age' by Katherine Rake, Jane Falkingham and Martin...