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- Title
The Politics of Unconditional Basic Income: Bringing Bureaucracy Back In.
- Authors
De Wispelaere, Jurgen; Stirton, Lindsay
- Abstract
We challenge the view, typically assumed by advocates of unconditional basic income ( UBI), that its administration is uncontroversial. We identify three essential tasks which, from the point of view of the administrative cybernetics literature, any income maintenance policy must accomplish: defining criteria of eligibility, determining who meets such criteria and disbursing payments to those found to be eligible. Building on the work of Christopher Hood, we contrast two alternative ways in which the design of a UBI might apply the principle of 'using bureaucracy sparingly' to the performance of each of these three tasks. Relating these alternative designs to the politics of basic income, we show a correspondence between contrasting senses of using bureaucracy sparingly and 'redistributive' and 'aggregative' UBI models.
- Subjects
WELFARE economics; PUBLIC welfare administration; INCOME; ADMINISTRATIVE efficiency; HOOD, Christopher; DISTRIBUTION (Economic theory); INCOME redistribution
- Publication
Political Studies, 2013, Vol 61, Issue 4, p915
- ISSN
0032-3217
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9248.2012.01004.x