Cargando…

The impacts of welfare conditionality : sanctions support and behaviour change /

Should a citizen's right to social welfare be contingent on their personal behaviour? Welfare conditionality, linking citizens' eligibility for social benefits and services to prescribed compulsory responsibilities or behaviours, has become a key component of welfare reform in many nations...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Dwyer, Peter (Peter James) (Autor), Scullion, Lisa (Autor), Jones, Katy (Research fellow) (Autor), McNeill, Jenny (Autor), Stewart, Alasdair B. R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Policy Press, 2023.
Colección:Welfare conditionality series
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1. Introduction :
  • Welfare states and conditionality: questions of principle and priority
  • Defining welfare conditionality
  • Welfare conditionality and the reconfiguration of social citizenship
  • Welfare conditionality: towards an active world of welfare?
  • Part 2. Conditionality in the UK welfare state :
  • The social security system
  • Social housing
  • The management of antisocial behaviour
  • Conditionality in context: UK welfare reform since 2010, austerity, retrenchment and devolution
  • Part 3. Welfare conditionality and behaviour change :
  • Theorising behaviour change
  • Understanding the agency and behaviour of social welfare recipients
  • The effectiveness of welfare conditionality?
  • Part 4. From welfare to work? The effectiveness of welfare conditionality in moving people into paid employment :
  • Diverse trajectories: stasis, recycling and pathways into and out of work
  • The impact of welfare conditionality on work/welfare trajectories: sanctions, support and discretion
  • Dealing with difference: conditionality as a panacea for labour market inactivity
  • Universal Credit and 'in-work' conditionality: promoting employment progression?
  • Part 5. Welfare conditionality and problematic or antisocial behaviour :
  • The efficacy of welfare conditionality in addressing antisocial behaviour among people with complex/multiple needs
  • Compound conditionality
  • Part 6. Unintended outcomes? The wider impacts of compulsion and benefit sanctions in social security :
  • The great UK sanctioning drive
  • Pernicious and punitive: the impacts of benefit sanctions
  • The compliant, the unable and the unwilling
  • Part 7. Ethical debates :
  • Advocates and adversaries: ethical aspects of welfare conditionality
  • Questions of principle
  • Conditionality in practice: appropriate for all?
  • Part 8. Conclusions.