Making sense of social citizenship: some user views on welfare rights and responsibilities

Dwyer, Peter

doi:10.1177/0261018302022002064

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“…Following the example of Dwyer (2000Dwyer ( , 2002 the aim is to engage with the citizenship debate not from a solely theoretical perspective but by drawing on the experience and perspectives of citizens whose voice is rarely heard in the debate. The research on which the article draws was a study of a specific citizenship obligation, the payment of local taxation.…”

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Irresponsible citizens? New Labour, citizenship and the case of non-payment of local taxation

Orton

2004

Critical Social Policy

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This article engages with the debate about citizenship and responsibility by drawing on the experience of citizens whose voice is rarely heard in that debate. The article draws on a study of a specific citizenship obligation, the payment of local taxation, and in particular interviews with people who had failed to pay local tax -a group who could potentially be characterized as 'irresponsible citizens'. From the perspective of these citizens the experience of paying local tax raises issues not about a deficit of responsibility but insecurity and the struggle to make ends meet. The examination of local tax and citizenship also raises issues about what will be described as the unequal distribution of obligation under New Labour. The article concludes by arguing that what is highlighted is the need for consideration of responsibility in relation not just to poor citizens but to all citizens, and in particular those with higher incomes.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Irresponsible citizens? New Labour, citizenship and the case of non-payment of local taxation

Orton

2004

Critical Social Policy

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“…specific human needs may be translated into claims and asserted as rights, albeit in a manner that might combine struggles over the redistribution of resources with identity-based struggles" (also Young & Quibell, 2000;Ward & Stewart, 2008). This position is supported by Dwyer's (2002) empirical research with welfare service users who thought the state had an obligation to fulfil social rights through the provision of welfare support, especially the unconditional right to health care and social security, less so for housing as a conditional right dependent on behaviour.…”

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Can Policy to Address Some Disability Rights Mitigate Weak Approaches to Others?

Fisher

Robinson

Harris

2013

International Journal of Public Administration

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Governments prioritize some rights over others because of policy constraints. We ask whether differential disability policy priorities can readdress other unrealized rights when applied to services for people with disabilities in boarding houses in Australia. The housing is inappropriate to their support needs and breaches their immediate right to unsegregated housing. Findings about the government-funded support showed that their well-being improved, but the housing increased their support needs and reduced their eligibility for suitable housing, implying that support policies that prioritize progressive realization rights are not successful where immediate realization rights to housing remain unaddressed. These findings about the negative social outcomes from ignoring human rights hierarchies have implications for policy priorities.

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“…Welfare recipients, as 'partners' in wider public and private networks, have to agree to 'rights' and 'responsibilities' of their 'conditioned' welfare provisions based on the duty of individuals to ensure they remain employable. In the UK, for example, this has meant that New Labour was bent on 'the promotion of a particular type of moral community in which citizens earn access to their social rights through a combination of hard work, responsible behaviour and personal contribution' (Dwyer, 2002: 274; see also Fudge and Williams, 2006). But while such moral dialogue is used to strengthen community ties and to tackle social exclusion, in practice it often serves to create simple binary dualisms in deprived communities based on the 'responsible' majority of residents and the 'irresponsible' minority who are portrayed as reproducing 'indecent', 'immoral', 'asocial' and 'work-shy' behavioural traits and who therefore need to be disciplined (Wallace, 2007).…”

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The State, Empire and Imperialism

Roberts

2010

Current Sociology

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This article aims to develop a Marxist account to explain the more informal practices of imperialism today. In this respect the article agrees with those Marxists who argue that capitalists and politicians have sought to impose the hegemonic economic project of financial neoliberalism across the globe. However, unlike some Marxist accounts which tend to explore imperialism primarily through socioeconomic relations, this article argues that financial neoliberal hegemony is achieved through social, political and ideological mechanisms as well. This is to see and understand capitalism as a complex, interconnected whole in which the way that capital accrues profits is through the exploitation, governance and regulation of living labour, which itself requires social, political and ideological mechanisms in place to do so. The article argues that in contemporary imperialism these 'non-economic' forms of regulation have often been embedded in seemingly non-imperialist and more informal types of governance that some have identified as 'Empire'. The article suggests that these governance mechanisms have extended imperialist financial domination of the US state through the political projects of neoliberalism and workfarism.

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Making sense of social citizenship: some user views on welfare rights and responsibilities

Cited by 15 publications

References 6 publications

Irresponsible citizens? New Labour, citizenship and the case of non-payment of local taxation

Irresponsible citizens? New Labour, citizenship and the case of non-payment of local taxation

Can Policy to Address Some Disability Rights Mitigate Weak Approaches to Others?

The State, Empire and Imperialism

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