Social Policy in a Changing Society

Mullard, Maurice

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“…They see this as an appropriate form of the political system realizing the ideals of social justice, whose existence-despite the stance of liberals dedicated to a spontaneous order (Irving, 2020) they do not deny. Consequently, based on the doctrine, it is possible to separate needs from wishes and preferences (George and Wilding, 2003;Spicker, 1988;Mullard and Spicker, 1998;Acocella, 2005).…”

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Methodology of Obtaining Information about Societal Needs: The Foundations and their Empirical Verification

Kotlińska¹,

Żukowska²,

Zdzislaw³

et al. 2021

ERSJ

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Purpose: This study aimed to identify the concept of a 'societal need', indicate sources of information about societal needs, and conduct a critical analysis of the foundations of the methodology of obtaining information about societal needs and their operationalization (social services). Design/Methodology/Approach: The article was written based on a critical analysis of the literature and practical verification of the methodology applied in obtaining information about societal needs used in diagnosing such conditions (from the perspective of local government). Findings: Society's needs are constantly evolving, increasing in volume, and changing their quality. The method applied in this study to obtain information about societal needs of the local community restricted the range of the survey respondents (reporting societal needsbeneficiaries of social services), which points to the problem of selecting the suitable means of communication with the stakeholders relevant in this process. A diagnosis of societal needs cannot be aspect-based. Its potential is determined by the comprehensiveness of information obtained from all the parties representing the stakeholders of the social policy system. Practical implications: The possibilities of practical implementation aimed at identifying societal needs to create a comprehensive range of the offered social services provided by entities from various sectors of the economy and the modernization and maintenance of services in the system of social policy. Originality/Value: A critical assessment of the applied methodology for obtaining information about the societal needs of a given community and the possibilities of resolving social problems thanks to the provided social services.

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Methodology of Obtaining Information about Societal Needs: The Foundations and their Empirical Verification

Kotlińska¹,

Żukowska²,

Zdzislaw³

et al. 2021

ERSJ

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“…Decision makers are often required to balance demands for economic development with associated environmental risks (Suzuki and Dressel, ; Reid et al ., ; Liverpool City Council, ), while the community calls for mechanisms that allow science and society to address decision making and the needs of citizens at global to local scales (Reid et al ., ). Politicians depend upon knowledge provided by public professionals for policy analysis and development, thus shaping priorities of public policy by working within a decision‐making framework that has a potential to exclude the citizen (Mullard and Spicker, ; Perhac, ; Hindmarsh, ). There is an argument, however, that citizen input should be better integrated into the development of sustainable and liveable futures appropriate to the local context (Irvin and Stansbury, ; Lloyd et al ., ; Robins, ; McIntyre‐Mills, ).…”

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Unconventional Gas Development: Why a Regional Community Said No

Luke

Lloyd

Boyd

et al. 2014

Geographical Research

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Public concern resulting from unconventional coal seam gas (CSG) exploration and production has become a contentious planning issue in regional Australia, with public concern drawing attention to government planning obligations. To assist Lismore City Council (Northern New South Wales) in its deliberations on the topic, a referendum‐style poll on the issue of CSG industry development was held in conjunction with the local government elections of September 2012. The poll question, ‘Do you support CSG exploration and production in the Lismore City Council area?’, elicited a poll response rate of 97% of eligible voters, of which 87% voted ‘no’. This paper reports the results of an exit poll survey using the Theory of Planned Behaviour to frame motivations behind the poll result, and examines the role of the poll and exit poll survey in providing a process of deliberative democracy in the context of the CSG debate. Key details highlighted by the results were that non‐supporters of CSG exploration were primarily concerned about water quality, while supporters saw the primary benefit being regional employment. Emerging themes of this study are the need for more independent research on potential risks and benefits of CSG developments, increase in institutional transparency, and the development of renewable alternatives. The study concludes that the principles of deliberative democracy involved in the Lismore City Council poll and subsequent exit poll survey have provided an opportunity for a more open discussion and genuine discourse within the CSG debate.

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“…The following sections dwell on an encompassing study on the development of the infrastructure and the internal dynamics of elderly care systems, as well as on the way newly emerging welfare markets are becoming culturally embedded throughout these systems (Bode 2008a). In these systems particularly, the rise of welfare markets deserves closer scrutiny since we are dealing with an important section of the collective mindset of modern society, regarding the way the latter 'makes sense' of those institutions that 1 Exceptions (such as Hendricks & Powell 2009, Clarke 2004, Mullard & Spicker 1998 confirm the rule. 2 The emergence of welfare markets does play a role in the literature on social service provision (Lai 1994, Wistow et al 1996, Taylor-Gooby 1999, Dean et al 2000, Le Grand 2007), yet it is hardly linked to broader theoretical reflection.…”

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Social care going market

Bode

2010

JCSW

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Over the last two decades or so, major Western societies have remoulded the institutional set-up by which they are deailing with social risks related to frailty during old age. While the 20th century had brought a transnational tendency towards the establishment of elderly care ‘going public’, the proliferation of more market-based services brings confusion into the societal norm-set underlying the aforementioned tendency. Marketisation has placed the emphasis on economic values engrained in liberal worldviews, leading into a new welfare culture that devaluates universalism and reemphasises the sovereignty of the individual. However, the new cult of the individual produces contradictory signals. Drawing on an encompassing study on the ‘culture of welfare markets’ in elderly care provision, covering two (post-)liberal and two (post-corporatist) welfare regimes (Canada, Britain; France, Germany), the paper looks at these fuzzy developments in order to assess the cultural embeddedness of what can be referred to as the mixed economy of elderly care. The analysis, charting major patterns of both institutional change and public communication around it, elucidates that we currently are facing a permanent struggle between liberal values and (renewed) elements of the ‘going-public-agenda’ proliferating over the 1970s and 1980s, that is, a hybrid and ‘nervous’ cultural configuration in which senior social citizenship remains an issue, albeit on precarious foundations.

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Social Policy in a Changing Society

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Methodology of Obtaining Information about Societal Needs: The Foundations and their Empirical Verification

Methodology of Obtaining Information about Societal Needs: The Foundations and their Empirical Verification

Unconventional Gas Development: Why a Regional Community Said No

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