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Reframing Social Citizenship (Hardcover, New)
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Throughout the world, governments are restructuring social and
welfare provision to give a stronger role to opportunity,
aspiration and individual responsibility, and to competition,
markets, and consumer choice. This approach centers on a logic of
individual rational action: people are the best judges of what
serves their own interests and government should give them as much
freedom of choice as possible. The UK has gone further than any
other major European country in reform and provides a useful object
lesson.
Reframing Social Citizenship analyzes the pressures on social
citizenship from changes in work and the family, political actors,
population aging, and the processes within government in the
relentless international process of globalization that have shaped
the response. It examines the various social science approaches to
agency and argues that the logic of rational action is able to
explain how reciprocity arises and is sustained but offers a weak
foundation for social inclusion and social trust. It will only
sustain part of the welfare state. A detailed assessment of
empirical evidence shows how the outcomes of the new policy
framework correspond to its theoretical strengths and limitations.
Reforms have achieved considerable success in delivering mass
services efficiently. They are much less successful in
redistributing to more vulnerable low income groups and in
maintaining public trust in the structure of provision.
The risk is that mistrustful and disquieted voters may be unwilling
to support high spending on health care, pensions and other
benefits at a time when they are most needed. In short, the reform
programme was undertaken for excellent reasons in a difficult
international context, but risks throwing the baby out with the
bathwater.
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