European Welfare States Beyond Neoliberalism: Toward the Social Investment State

Abrahamson, Peter

doi:10.21588/dns.2010.39.1.003

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“…A large-scale benefit fraud in the 1990s strengthened the negative beliefs about the (undeserving) poor [42]. In the following years, just as in many other European countries, responsibility for one’s own situation, self-reliance and active citizenship became increasingly important [43, 44]. The strengthened meritocratic beliefs, individualisation of society, and the growing emphasis on own responsibility, self-reliance and participation, all might have strengthened the negative beliefs about people in lower SEP groups.…”

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The silent burden of stigmatisation: a qualitative study among Dutch people with a low socioeconomic position

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BackgroundIn-depth qualitative research into perceived socioeconomic position-related stigmatisation among people living at the lower end of our socioeconomic hierarchy is necessary for getting more insight in the possible downside of living in an increasingly meritocratic and individualistic society.MethodsSeventeen interviews were conducted among a group of Dutch people with a low socioeconomic position to examine their experiences with stigmatisation, how they coped with it and what they perceived as consequences.ResultsSocial reactions perceived by participants related to being inferior, being physically recognisable as a poor person, and being responsible for their own financial problems. Participants with less experience of living in poverty, a heterogeneous social network and greater sense of financial responsibility seemed to be more aware of stigmas than people with long-term experience of poverty, a homogeneous social network and less sense of financial responsibility. Perceived stigmatisation mainly had emotional consequences. To maintain a certain level of self-respect, participants tried to escape from reality, showed their strengths or confronted other people who expressed negative attitudes towards them.ConclusionDespite the good intentions of policies to enhance self-reliance, responsibility and active citizenship, these policies and related societal beliefs might affect people at the lower end of our socioeconomic hierarchies by making them feel inferior, ashamed and blamed, especially when they cannot meet societal expectations or when they feel treated disrespectfully, unjustly or unequally by social workers or volunteers of charity organisations.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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The silent burden of stigmatisation: a qualitative study among Dutch people with a low socioeconomic position

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“…After the second half of the 1990s, TSOs had their golden years, as it happened in many other countries, with the so-called shift from government to governance (Osborne 2010) and from the welfare to the social investment state (Abrahamson 2010). In Portugal, the TS was particularly fit for the social investment state due to its strong position in the provision of social services to families and in preschool education, thus serving the project of an educated, healthy and working population.…”

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New Paths for Third-Sector Institutions in a Welfare State in Crisis: The Case of Portugal

Ferreira

2015

Nonprofit Policy Forum

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This article describes the recent changes in the political, cultural and socioeconomic environment of the third sector (TS) in Portugal in the context of crisis and structural adjustment. Belatedly, when compared to many other countries, an overall sector is being structured in Portugal, overcoming the traditional neglect of the political system and the divisions inside the field. The historical institutional approach is here used to make sense of the current changes and debates and the different policy coalitions in place are identified through present and past policy analysis and content analysis of policy debates. This provides a broad background for exploring the hypothesis that the Portuguese TS may be arriving at a critical juncture that will set a new path under the development of a new and broader identity as "social economy." This paper identifies path-breaking trends, as well as continuities. It argues that the structuring axis TS/welfare state, which has been the driving force of the TS in Portugal, is shifting to the axis TS/economy as a result of changes in both the TS and its political coalitions' strategies and in the broader context and institutional framework of the welfare state.

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“…Scholars have examined this concerted "return to social policy" (Razavi, 2007) through two oppositional analytical frameworks. Some have argued that these social programmes signal the co-optation of a concern for welfare within a neoliberal logic (Barrientos, 2013;Bradshaw, 2008;Sanchez-Ancochea and Mattei, 2011), while others have posited that these new programmes signal the creation of an alternative to, or perhaps even a transition away from neoliber alism (Abrahamson, 2010;Jenson, 2010;Kaltwaser, 2011;Grugel and Riggirozzi, 2012). W hereas the former claim th at these social programmes should not be taken as signalling the transition to a post-neoliberal era, the latter have cau tiously welcomed such a possibility.…”

Section: Rise Of Social Assistance: Neoliberalism Post-neoliberalismmentioning

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Illusory Debates

Zencirci

2015

Asian J Soc Sci

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Emergent social assistance programmes in developing countries are either considered to possibly signal the transition to a post-neoliberal era, or are taken to constitute a move towards neoliberal welfare governance. By examining the making of a social assistance-based welfare regime in Turkey, I argue that the expansion of social programmes are the product of the neoliberalism-plus conjuncture which takes market inequality as a given. Specifically, this article analyses the similarity of nominally opposed concepts of welfare in the Turkish debate between conservative Islamists and secular Kemalists. By examining the “sadaka culture” debate and the constitutive rights vs. belief binary, the following analysis illustrates that although these two political groups appear to disagree about welfare governance, in reality this on-going debate actually masks the consolidation of social assistance as a welfare norm. I argue that social assistance operates as a bio-political strategy that transforms state power, restructures welfare governance and generates new understandings of poverty, need and aid in the neoliberalism-plus conjuncture.

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European Welfare States Beyond Neoliberalism: Toward the Social Investment State

Cited by 55 publications

References 59 publications

The silent burden of stigmatisation: a qualitative study among Dutch people with a low socioeconomic position

The silent burden of stigmatisation: a qualitative study among Dutch people with a low socioeconomic position

New Paths for Third-Sector Institutions in a Welfare State in Crisis: The Case of Portugal

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