Author: Tom O'Grady Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0192898892 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 401
Book Description
Since 2010 the UK has enacted radical welfare reforms that have led to greater poverty, homelessness, indebtedness, and foodbank use. It has diverged from other European countries experiencing similar economic and social trends, who have not enacted such dramatic cuts and reforms. Until recently, however, the changes proved very popular with the public, who increasingly hated the welfare system and viewed its users as lazy, undeserving, and likely to be cheating. In this book, Tom O'Grady focuses on policies that provide relief from unemployment, poverty, and disability to uncover why Britain's welfare system has been reformed so radically and why, until recently, the public enthusiastically endorsed this programme. Using a comparative and historical perspective, he traces the evolution of British welfare policy, politics, discourse, and public opinion since the 1980s, and argues that from the 1990s a long-term change in discourse from both politicians and the media caused the British public to turn against welfare by 2010. That, combined with the financial crisis, left the system uniquely vulnerable to cuts. This book explores the roots of public opinion on the welfare system, the motives of politicians who have revolutionized it, and the ways in which the system and its users have been spoken about. It is an account of how the public came to consider deserving recipients of help as scroungers; of when and why politicians and the media vilified them; of political parties whose discourse and policies were transformed, almost overnight; and of Britain's journey from providing welfare as generously as the average European country in the 1970s to becoming an outlier today.
Author: Nick Ellison Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134765703 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 238
Book Description
'Globalization', institutions and welfare regimes -- The challenge of globalization -- Globalization and welfare regime change -- Towards workfare? : changing labour market policies -- Labour market policies in social democratic and continental regimes -- Population ageing, GEPs and changing pensions systems -- Pensions policies in continental and social regimes -- Conclusion : welfare regimes in a liberalizing world.
Author: Neil Gilbert Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780195176575 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 228
Book Description
Same time, the glaring systemic deficiencies of extant welfare systems-and the psychological toll of welfare dependency--became increasingly apparent, even to welfare's supporters.
Author: Toomas Kotkas Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1315524317 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 207
Book Description
At a time when the future of the welfare state is the object of heated debate in many European countries, this edited collection explores the relationship between this institution and social rights. Structured around the themes of the politics of social rights, questions of equality and social exclusion/inclusion, and the increasing impact of market imperatives on social policy, the book explores the effect of transformations in the welfare state upon social rights and their underlying rationalities and logics. Written by a group of international scholars, many of the essays discuss a number of urgent and topical issues within social policy, including: the social rights of asylum seekers; the increasing marketization and consumerization of public welfare services; the care of the elderly; and the obligation to work as a condition of access to welfare benefits. International in its scope, and interdisciplinary in its approach, this collection of essays will appeal to scholars and students working in the fields of law and socio-legal studies, sociology, social policy, and politics. It will also be of interest to policy makers and all those engaged in the debate over the future of the welfare state and social rights.
Author: Great Britain: Department for Work and Pensions Publisher: The Stationery Office ISBN: 9780101791328 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 52
Book Description
The benefits system as it stands often provides incentives to stay on benefits rather than take on a job. This paper identifies the key failings of the benefits system and outlines the objectives the Government believes the system should attempt to achieve. The framework being considered looks at the system of state support for the less well off as a whole and is designed to produce positive behavioural effects. The intention is to maximise work incentives while continuing to protect those most in need. This aim is to achieve this through new rules on how much of their earnings people can keep without losing benefit and by withdrawing benefits as earnings rise at a single, reasonable rate. The models being put forward for consultation include: i) a universal credit whereby elements of the current income-related and tax credit systems are combined, bringing out-of-work and in-work support together in a single system and supplement household earnings through credit payments; ii) a single unified taper would retain a set of benefits with a reformed delivery system whereby withdrawal would be through a taper applied to overall benefit eligibility as income increased; and ii) a single working age benefit which would give all working age claimants the same level of replacement income regardless of whether they were jobseekers, lone parents, sick or disabled. The Government is also looking at how to use smart automation to deliver support without the wasteful bureaucratic delays to payment that make the move into work more stressful than necessary
Author: Donatella Della Porta Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199678405 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 865
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The Handbook presents a most updated and comprehensive exploration of social movement research. It not only maps, but also expands the field of social movement studies, taking stock of recent developments in cognate areas of studies, within and beyond sociology and political science. While structured around traditional social movement concepts, each section combines the mapping of the state of the art with attempts to broaden our knowledge of social movements beyond classic theoretical agendas, and to identify the contribution that social movement studies can give to other fields of knowledge.
Author: Neil Gilbert Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0195363183 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 236
Book Description
Over the last two decades new arrangements have emerged for the finance and delivery of social welfare in the United States and other industrial democracies. Moving beyond the conventional paradigm of the welfare state, these arrangements form an alternative model. This study details a fresh vision of social welfare transfers--how they are delivered, and whom they benefit. The authors explore the use of private enterprise and market-oriented approaches to the delivery of social provisions, and examine how welfare benefits are derived from the full range of modern social transfers including tax expenditures, credit subsidies, and those induced by regulatory activity. Reappraising the modern boundaries of social welfare, this book provides insights into the structure and dynamics of a novel social model that will open new avenues for scientific study and public debate.
Author: Farnsworth, Kevin Publisher: Policy Press ISBN: 1847428290 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 353
Book Description
There is no precedent to the current economic crisis which looks set to redefine social policy debate throughout the globe. But its effects are not uniform across nations. Bringing together a range of expert contributions, the key lesson to emerge from this book is that 'the crisis' is better understood as a variety of crises, each mediated by national context. Consequently, there is an array of potential trajectories for welfare systems, from those where social policy is regarded as incompatible with the post-crisis economy to those where it is considered essential to future economic growth and security.
Author: Gosta Esping-Andersen Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0745666752 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 322
Book Description
Few discussions in modern social science have occupied as much attention as the changing nature of welfare states in western societies. Gosta Esping-Andersen, one of the most distinguished contributors to current debates on this issue, here provides a new analysis of the character and role of welfare states in the functioning of contemporary advanced western societies. Esping-Andersen distinguishes several major types of welfare state, connecting these with variations in the historical development of different western countries. Current economic processes, the author argues, such as those moving towards a post-industrial order, are not shaped by autonomous market forces but by the nature of states and state differences. Fully informed by comparative materials, this book will have great appeal to everyone working on issues of economic development and post-industrialism. Its audience will include students and academics in sociology, economics and politics.
Author: Tom O'Grady
Author: Nick Ellison
Author: Neil Gilbert
Author: Michael James Hill
Author: Toomas Kotkas
Author: Great Britain: Department for Work and Pensions
Author: Donatella Della Porta
Author: Neil Gilbert
Author: Farnsworth, Kevin
Author: Gosta Esping-Andersen