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- Title
Creeping Conditionality in the UK: From Welfare Rights to Conditional Entitlements?
- Authors
Dwyer, Peter
- Abstract
A widely recognised central tenet of New Labour's "Third Way" is no rights without responsibilities. The extent to which this idea underpins the British government's approach to welfare reform has been extensively commented upon. Initially, the article places the UK reforms in the context of wider theoretical debates about welfare reform in Western states. It then highlights the ways in which a principle of conditionality is being practically applied in a wide range of sectors in the UK including; social security, housing, education, and health. The details and impact of recent relevant legislation and initiatives are discussed. It is argued that as policies based on conditional entitlement become central to the ongoing process of welfare reform the very idea of "welfare rights" is systematically undermined.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; PUBLIC welfare; SOCIAL security; SOCIAL services; CIVIL rights
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Sociology, 2004, Vol 29, Issue 2, p265
- ISSN
0318-6431
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3654696