ISBN:
9780199546701
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xii, 218 p)
,
24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Reframing Social Citizenship
DDC:
306.2094
Keywords:
Welfare state
;
Public welfare
;
Social change
;
Citizenship Social aspects
;
Political culture
Abstract:
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 centres 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 andprovides a useful object lesson. This book analyses the pressures on social citizenship from changes in work and the
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Part I. Sustaining Social Citizenship in Difficult Times; Part II. Intellectual Foundations of Reform; Part III. A Case-study: The UK as Object Lesson; Part IV. Conclusions: Strengths and Limitations of Rational Actor Approaches; References; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199546701.001.0001
Permalink
