New Approaches to Welfare Theory

By: Glenn Drover (Editor), Patrick Kerans (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 January 1993

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New Approaches to Welfare Theory draws on recent work from the sociology of social action, feminist literature and critical social theory, to counter the current impasse in social policy. Interdisciplinary in scope and including work by economists, psychologists, philosophers and social workers, it offers insights into the meaning and dynamics of claimsmaking in modern society.
The introduction examines the claims which groups - especially groups of marginalized people - make against institutions, the problems they have in articulating their aspirations and needs, and the structured institutional responses to their claims. This is followed by a series of papers on the problem of establishing the moral justifiability of claims, including contributions from both the contractarian and utilitarian approaches. Later sections concentrate on the constraining and enabling effects of social structures on claimsmaking - including the various excluding and filtering institutional responses - and the interactions both of claimsmakers with political institutions and of social groups with institutional patterns. The volume concludes with an afterword by the editors discussing the relationship between the universalist and particularist approaches, the two perspectives on the moral dimensions of welfare which feature most prominently in the book.
The essays and papers in this book draw upon a broad background of research, teaching and practical experience by a distinguished group of scholars. New Approaches to Welfare Theory will be welcomed by students and researchers, as well as by social workers and policy an enlightening and instructive discussion of the problems and implications of an approach to welfare from the perspective of social action.

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List of Contributors
Introduction
New Approaches to Welfare Theory: Foundations	p. 3
Free Lunches Don't Nourish: Reflections on Entitlements and Citizenship	p. 33
Realizing Equal Life Prospects: The Case for a Perfectionist Theory of Fair Shares	p. 49
The Thick and Thin of Human Needing	p. 69
Economic Institutions and Human Well-Being	p. 85
Exchange-Speak, Social Welfare Claims and Economic Policy Discourse	p. 101
Citizenship - A Feminist Analysis	p. 113
De-constructing Dualities: Making Rights Claims in Political Institutions	p. 127
Private Pains in Public Places: The Uses of Criminal Justice	p. 143
Social Movements and Social Welfare: The Political Problem of Needs	p. 161
New Patterns of Collective Action in a 'Post-Welfare' Society: The Italian Case	p. 177
Welfare Work: Discursive Conflicts and Narrative Possibilities	p. 190
Framing Claims and the Weapons of the Weak	p. 205
The Theory and Politics of Helping in Feminist Social Service Collectives	p. 220
Interdependence, Difference and Limited State Capacity	p. 235
What Welfare Theory Hides	p. 242
Afterword: Sorting Claims	p. 249
Comments: On Drover and Kerans	p. 267
Comments: On Soper	p. 270
Comments: On Gough	p. 274
Comments: On Hum	p. 277
Comments: On Lustiger-Thaler and Shragge	p. 281
Comments: On Jordan	p. 284
Comments: On Ristock	p. 288
Bibliography	p. 291
Index	p. 311
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