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- Title
Making the case for the welfare state.
- Authors
Taylor-Gooby, Peter
- Abstract
The UK welfare state is under attack from harsh spending cuts, focused particularly on women, children, low-paid people and claimers of working age, and a restructuring programme. This paper examines why it is hard to make a case for generous state welfare that is both inclusive and electorally attractive. It discusses the way the issues are understood, the trilemma that pro-welfare policy-making faces, proposals for new directions in policy and a reform programme that might help build a more inclusive welfare discourse. A more inclusive society requires policies that reframe the way people think about work, reward and welfare.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; WELFARE state -- Social aspects; SOCIAL structure; GOVERNMENT policy -- Social aspects; RISK -- Social aspects; SOCIOECONOMIC factors
- Publication
Policy & Politics, 2015, Vol 43, Issue 4, p597
- ISSN
0305-5736
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1332/147084414X14081190124376