Perspectives on welfare : ideas, ideologies and policy debates
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Perspectives on welfare : ideas, ideologies and policy debates
（Introducing social policy / series editor, David Gladstone）
Open University Press, 2002
- : pbk
- : hbk
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Bibliography: p. [140]-149
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
An introduction to the current debates about the future direction of welfare reform on both sides of the Atlantic. The first part outlines a range of different perspectives on welfare, and shows how each of these perspectives rests upon a different assumption about the role and purpose of welfare policy and a different understanding of human nature and motivation. Some of these perspectives see the primary role of welfare as to reduce inequalities, while others see the central objective as the reduction of welfare dependency. The second part shows how the current debates in Britain and the United States are informed by these perspectives, and argues that debates about inequality and dependency are not mutually exclusive but address different dimensions of the same problem. In all, this text should be valuable reading for courses in social policy, health, and social welfare, as well as those with a political and wider interest in welfare reform.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Welfare and equality: welfare and self interest
- welfare and paternalism
- welfare and obligation
- welfare as temporary support. Part 2 Ending dependency?: welfare reform in the United States
- a new deal for welfare? New Labour and the reform of welfare in Britain.
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