Welfare rights and responsibilities

✍ Scribed by Peter Dwyer

• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 262
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This text focuses on the twin themes of welfare reform and citizenship. Specifically it explores three issues central to citizenship's social element: provision, conditionality (the link between welfare rights and responsibilities), and membership. It offers an overview of contemporary debates about the contested concepts of citizenship and welfare, adds an empirical dimension to the debates, and allows the (presently marginalized) voices of welfare service users to become valued in debates about the extent of social citizenship and the reform of the welfare state.

✦ Table of Contents

Welfare rights and responsibilities......Page 2
Contents......Page 4
Acknowledgements......Page 5
List of acronyms......Page 6
1. Introduction......Page 8
Why citizenship, why welfare?......Page 9
Three key themes, three elements of welfare......Page 11
New Labour: a ‘Third Way’ for social citizenship?......Page 12
Outline of chapters......Page 20
Introduction......Page 26
The liberal individual......Page 27
The communitarian individual......Page 34
'Community’......Page 41
Which way for citizenship?......Page 48
Conclusions......Page 53
Introduction......Page 56
Civilising capitalism: Marshall’s rights-based approach......Page 57
The challenge of the New Right......Page 69
The new communitarian approach......Page 79
New Labour and welfare: a new approach?......Page 87
A Muslim perspective......Page 97
Conclusions: a new orthodoxy?......Page 101
General introduction......Page 106
The role of the state, the market and other agencies in providing welfare......Page 110
Adequacy/inadequacy of present state welfare......Page 123
The problem of stigma......Page 128
Financing public welfare......Page 131
Conclusions......Page 132
Welfare rights and the ‘principle of conditionality’......Page 136
Social security and financial conditionality......Page 162
Unconditional benefit: a case for Citizen’s Income?......Page 168
The irregular application of conditionality......Page 171
Conclusions......Page 174
Inclusion and exclusion from healthcare: undeserving immigrants, deserving senior citizens......Page 178
Housing rights and unwelcome neighbours: troublesome tenants, sex offenders and other criminals......Page 186
Social security benefits: deserving workers and carers, undeserving ‘scroungers’ and ‘layabouts’......Page 190
Conclusions......Page 194
The state and welfare provision......Page 198
Conditional citizens?......Page 201
Membership of the welfare community: legitimising exclusion, claiming inclusion......Page 205
Liberals and communitarians: competing visions of citizenship......Page 208
On the right track? New Labour and welfare citizenship......Page 214
Concluding comment......Page 217
Bibliography......Page 220
Methodological considerations: an abductive approach......Page 242
Ontological and epistemological concerns......Page 243
An emancipatory approach?......Page 244
The focus group method......Page 245
Handling and analysis of data......Page 247
List of fieldwork questions and prompts......Page 248
Index......Page 254