From social policy to economic policy: taxation incentives for retirement income savings in New Zealand (1910-2005)

2007 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Marriott ◽  
Carolyn Fowler
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Retirement Income

scholarly journals A Mana Wahine Critical Analysis of New Zealand Legislation Concerning Education: Implications for Addressing Māori Social Disadvantage

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Tagan Wetekia Paul
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Disadvantage ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Critical Policy Analysis ◽  
Significant Movement ◽  
The Social ◽  
Common Goals ◽  
Central Argument ◽  
Critical Policy

<p>Theory and practice are intertwined, woven inextricably together by the way that each informs and is informed by the other (Moss 2002, Pihama 2001, Simmonds 2009). This research confronts and analyses the legal bases of gendered and race-based inequalities by critically analysing New Zealand social policy legislation through a mana wahine perspective. Mana wahine and critical policy analysis share common goals to challenge dominant theoretical and methodological norms in order to recognise unequal power distributions, of which colonisation is implicit (Tomlins-Jahnke 1997).  This research has been guided by a reading of literature that suggests Māori social disadvantage has become ingrained and that policies designed to address this inequality and to include Māori people and Māori perspectives in mainstreamed systems are both confusing, and yet to be successful. This study has been designed to explore present policy legislation concerning social development. A case study of the education system has been used, which draws on historic and more contemporary Western political agendas as reflected in legislative shifts.  Key findings of this research include the exclusion of mana wahine through the ongoing processes of colonisation that do not give rise to Māori cultural understandings. To summarise, the social policy context at present is characterised by: Māori demands for greater self-determination; an absence of Treaty rights for Māori; liberal interpretations of Treaty principles, and scant processes to implement them; a devoid of aspects pertinent to mana wahine, and; the contradiction between Government's articulated position on rights and inclusion in social policy and the language used in and concepts enforced by legislation.  The findings are significant and reveal the ongoing complexities of Indigenous inequalities in the context of widespread policy ‘commitment’ to inclusion and equality. The central argument developed throughout this study is that there is an urgent need to shift policy thinking toward Māori if there is to be a significant movement toward justice for Māori women, which will involve Māori-centred decolonisation and the inclusion of aspects pertinent to mana wahine.</p>

scholarly journals Making Social Services Work for Everyone: a summary of the recent Productivity Commission inquiry

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dave Heatley
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Institutional Design ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Programme Evaluation ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Productivity Commission ◽  
The Subject

Social services are those dedicated to enhancing people’s economic and social well-being by helping them lead more stable, healthy, self-sufficient and fulfilling lives. New Zealand’s social services – specifically, those provided, funded or otherwise supported by government – were the subject of a recent New Zealand Productivity Commission inquiry (Box 1). The commission’s final report is wide-ranging, covering subjects from service commissioning to purchasing and contracting, programme evaluation, institutional design and system stewardship. The report’s recommendations on many of these topics reflect standard social policy principles and may hold few surprises for readers of Policy Quarterly.

Social Policy of B. Obama Administration

2010 ◽  
pp. 73-81
Author(s):  
V. Kulakova
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Obama Administration ◽  
Crisis Recovery ◽  
The Future ◽  
Current Stage ◽  
Barak Obama

The article is devoted to the socio-economic policy pursued by Barak Obama who had won elections and entered the presidential office in the midst of the strongest economic crisis. The author considers in depth each of the new administration's strategy directions in taking simultaneously both short-term measures necessary for the fastest crisis recovery and actions aimed at laying the foundation for the future long-term prosperity of the country. The feature of the current stage is the elevation of social policy to the rank of national priorities, and the crisis does not abolish it.

Republicans and Democrats as Social Types: Or, Notes toward an Ethnography of the Political Parties

1986 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Byron E. Shafer
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
The Political ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
Country Club

When you shake his hand, do you already know? Before you ask whether she has done anything political, can you guess in which party she would have done it? The political parties, even American political parties, are different. They offer different issue positions, on economic policy, on foreign policy, on social policy. They represent different interests as well, different classes, different regions, different ethnic and racial groups. Yet there is something else about these parties, something quite apart from issues and interests, which makes the direct observer believe that he can tell the Republicans from the Democrats, even when he is at the country club, or at the corner bar.

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