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- Title
Working for Benefits: Rational Choice and the Rise of Work-Welfare Programmes.
- Authors
King, Desmond S.; Ward, Hugh
- Abstract
This paper develops a rational-choice explanation for the adoption of deterrent work-welfare programmes by recent governments in Britain and the US. Such programmes require the recipients of welfare or unemployment benefits to participate in a training programme or work activity in exchange for receiving their benefits and reflect a New Right (in contrast to a social democratic) conception of social citizenship. Governments design such policies to generate a partial separating equilibrium under which some claimants identified by the state as undeserving are discouraged from seeking benefits. These programmes are intended lo overcome problems of free-riding and false claiming viewed, by the New Right, as inherent in state-administered benefit systems.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; UNITED States; RATIONAL choice theory; INDUSTRIAL welfare; GOVERNMENT policy; EMPLOYEE benefits
- Publication
Political Studies, 1992, Vol 40, Issue 3, p479
- ISSN
0032-3217
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9248.1992.tb00704.x