Reframing social citizenship / Peter Taylor-Gooby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor-Gooby, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political culture--Europe.

Political culture.

Citizenship--Social aspects--Europe.

Citizenship.

Social change--Europe.

Social change.

Public welfare--Europe.

Public welfare.

Welfare state--Europe.

Welfare state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Throughout the world, governments are restructuring social and welfare provision to give a stronger role to opportunity, aspiration and individual responsibility, and to competition, markets and consumer choice. This approach centres on a logic of individual rational action: people are the best judges of what serves their own interests and government should give them as much freedom of choice as possible. The UK has gone further than any other major European country in reform andprovides a useful object lesson. This book analyses the pressures on social citizenship from changes in work and the

Contents:

Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Part I. Sustaining Social Citizenship in Difficult Times; Part II. Intellectual Foundations of Reform; Part III. A Case-study: The UK as Object Lesson; Part IV. Conclusions: Strengths and Limitations of Rational Actor Approaches; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-281-97874-4

9786611978747

0-19-156308-0

OCLC:

318821128