Creating target publics for welfare policies : a comparative and multi-level approach / Lorenzo Barrault-Stella, Pierre-Edouard Weill, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barrault-Stella, Lorenzo, 1983- editor.

Weill, Pierre Edouard, editor.

Series:

Logic, argumentation & reasoning ; 17.

Logic, argumentation & reasoning ; 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public welfare.

Public welfare administration.

Public administration.

Physical Description:

ix, 208 pages : maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2018]

Summary:

This volume analyzes welfare policies by looking at the making of their target publics. It examines how these populations are identified and constructed by policy making. The contributors apply the classic theoretical question about who gets what, when, and how, but also suggest the revisiting of policy-feedback analysis. Coverage includes empirical case studies in different geographical areas. It looks at Europe, the United States and also considers Mayotte, set in a post-colonial context. The chapters also examine different aspects of welfare, including the bureaucratic treatment of marginalized populations as well as the middle class. The authors draw on diverse conceptual approaches and investigative methodologies. They conduct participant observation in public or nonprofit organizations, explore administrative records, and interview actors at various stages of policymaking. This qualitative material is then combined with relevant quantitative data. Readers are guided through a multilevel approach of welfare policies, from their definition to their implementation. They gain insight into the targeting of publics, from the higher reaches of government to the most underprivileged groups of the social world. Overall, the book compares different national contexts and social policy fields. This approach unearths regularities, enabling the authors to reassess major contemporary transformations of the welfare State.

Contents:

The making of target publics for welfare policies. From targeting practices in resistances of governed people

Part I. Legitimizing categories in public debates

"Organize and defend yourself". The invention of the middle class before fascism: actors, discourse and institutions

How central is the middle? Middle class discourses and social policy design in Germany

Part II. Sketching the outlines of target groups

Frame, funnel, deter: the mechanisms of behavioral targeting

Targeting by numbers. The uses of statistics for monitoring French welfare benefit recipients

The paradoxical place of psychiatry in the administration of disability: dealing with the reframing of autism from a psychiatric to an educative issue in the concrete making of a target public

Part III. The daily bureaucratic adjustment of targeting

Conforming women citizens in the making. Targeting migrants through gendered immigrant integration policies in Helsinki and Paris

From groups to individuals? The making of target publics in the French administration of low-rent housing

How to identify and select citizens entitled social housing in a postcolonial situation? Administrative agents dealing with changing bureaucratic norms in a French overseas administrative department

Perspectives on target publics and welfare state transformations. A few proposals from political sociology.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

3319895958

9783319895956

OCLC:

1028597608