Conditional citizens? welfare rights and responsibilities in the late 1990s

Dwyer, Peter

doi:10.1177/026101839801805703

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“…It is also consistent with the dominant framework of welfare policy now installed in the UK, which demonizes public welfare as a major factor underpinning the reproduction of poverty and places increasing conditionality on access to reduced assistance, while emphasising individual responsibility for resolving social exclusion, principally through engagement in paid work (Horsell, 2006;Levitas, 1998;Dwyer, 1998;MacLeavy, 2008, Mooney, 2007. This paper scrutinises this causal story underpinning radical reform of social housing in England.…”

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confidence: 65%

Social Housing in England: Testing the Logics of Reform

Robinson¹

2012

Urban Studies

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The role and function of social housing in England are being recast. A radical programme of reform is being pursued in response to the apparent failure of the sector to serve as an effective welfare service, promoting dependency rather than social mobility. This paper examines the underlying logics and considers some of the potential consequences of this reform agenda, through an exploration of the relationship between social housing and worklessness. Drawing on evidence from qualitative interviews with over 150 tenants, questions are raised regarding the veracity of the charge sheet levelled against social housing. Risks associated with on-going efforts to reconstitute the role and function of social housing in England are also highlighted. These findings contribute to a growing body of evidence challenging the pathologising and problematising of social housing through the detailed analysis of the perspectives and experiences of social tenants.

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confidence: 65%

Social Housing in England: Testing the Logics of Reform

Robinson¹

2012

Urban Studies

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“…However, the following discussion demonstrates how contemporary reforms have undermined the social rights of citizenship to such an extent that Ôconditional citizensÕ (Dwyer, 1998) have increasingly become Ôcontingent subjectsÕ of the NZ welfare state.…”

Section: From 'Conditional Citizens' To 'Contingent Subjects' Of the mentioning

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“…ÒBefore the reforms I used to be able to cope and life was quite goodÉ they werenÕt extravagant but at least you felt like part of society but this government, this particular party wants to isolate usÉÓ (Chloe, 2013) ÒNo, I donÕt feel like a social citizenÉÓ (Rebecca, 2013) Against this backdrop, it becomes increasingly difficult to characterise low-income social security claimants as even Ôconditional citizensÕ (Dwyer, 1998). For those subjected to recent reforms, their rights, identity and belonging are contingent rather than conditional, in that the fulfilment of the conditions attached to welfare receipt does not necessarily lead to the fulfilment of oneÕs claims and status as a social citizen.…”

Section: From 'Conditional Citizens' To 'Contingent Subjects' Of the mentioning

confidence: 99%

Resistance or resignation to welfare reform? The activist politics for and against social citizenship

Edmiston

Humpage

2018

Policy &Amp; Politics

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Since 2008, mature welfare states have, to varying degrees, pursued a strategy of welfare reform that has reconfigured the dominant praxis of social citizenship. Drawing on qualitative data from two studies, this article explores what bearing this has had on the political subjectivity of welfare claimants in the New Zealand context. The findings suggest welfare claimants engage in diverse political struggles for and against social citizenship to resist, reconfigure and resign themselves to the prevailing socio-political settlement. In light of this, conclusions are drawn about the insurgent politics of low-income social security claimants as political agents in the citizenshipmaking process.

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“…The role of the state shifts from that of 'governing' through direct forms of control (hierarchical governance), to that of 'governance', in which the state must collaborate with a wide range of actors in networks that cut across the public, private and voluntary sectors, and operate across different levels of decision making. Public administration and social policy literatures variously describe the ways in which governments -in the UK, the USA and across much of Western Europe -have attempted to shift the focus towards various forms of co-production with other agencies and with citizens themselves through partnerships, community involvement and strategies of 'responsibilisation' (Balloch and Taylor, 2001;Barnes and Prior, 2000;Dwyer, 1998;Glendinning, Powell and Rummery, 2002;Rouban, 1999).…”

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Public Participation and Collaborative Governance

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This paper draws on the findings of a study within the ESRC's Democracy and Participation Programme. It explores the processes of participation within deliberative forums -such as user panels, youth forums, area based committees -developed as a means of encouraging a more active, participating mode of citizenship and of improving welfare services by making them more responsive to users. Our findings open up a number of issues about constraints on the development of 'collaborative governance'. To understand these constraints, we suggest, there is need to locate participation initiatives in the context of government policy, to explore ways in which such policy is interpreted and enacted by strategic actors in local organisations and to examine the perceptions of members of deliberative forums themselves. Our findings highlight the constraints on the 'political opportunity structures' created by the enhanced policy focus on public participation, and the consequent limits to 'collaborative governance'. We discuss how governance theory and social movement theory can each contribute to the analysis, but also suggest productive points of engagement through which each of these bodies of theory might enrich the other.

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Conditional citizens? welfare rights and responsibilities in the late 1990s

Cited by 77 publications

References 12 publications

Social Housing in England: Testing the Logics of Reform

Social Housing in England: Testing the Logics of Reform

Resistance or resignation to welfare reform? The activist politics for and against social citizenship

Public Participation and Collaborative Governance

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