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Working for Benefits: Rational Choice and the Rise of Work-Welfare Programmes.
- Source :
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Political Studies . Sep92, Vol. 40 Issue 3, p479-495. 17p. 3 Diagrams. - Publication Year :
- 1992
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Abstract
- This paper develops a rational-choice explanation for the adoption of deterrent work-welfare programmes by recent governments in Britain and the US. Such programmes require the recipients of welfare or unemployment benefits to participate in a training programme or work activity in exchange for receiving their benefits and reflect a New Right (in contrast to a social democratic) conception of social citizenship. Governments design such policies to generate a partial separating equilibrium under which some claimants identified by the state as undeserving are discouraged from seeking benefits. These programmes are intended lo overcome problems of free-riding and false claiming viewed, by the New Right, as inherent in state-administered benefit systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *RATIONAL choice theory
*INDUSTRIAL welfare
*GOVERNMENT policy
*EMPLOYEE benefits
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00323217
- Volume :
- 40
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Political Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 21483071
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9248.1992.tb00704.x