scholarly journals Mutual Obligation? Regulating by Supervision and Surveillance in Australian Income Support P

2002 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Parker ◽  
Rodney Fopp
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
The Self ◽  
Income Support ◽  
Unemployed People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Policy Objectives ◽  
Mutual Obligation ◽  
Liberal Political Theory

Through an analysis of speeches by government ministers, documents and regulations, this article examines the Australian national government's surveillance of unemployed people through what is known as Activity Testing, and more specifically as Mutual Obligation. It seeks to merge the social policy analysis of Mutual Obligation with a surveillance perspective in order to delve deeper into the underlying nature of the policy and its implications for people who are unemployed. It does this by 1. outlining the neo-liberal political theory underlying these policies; 2. illustrating the nature and extent of surveillance of people in receipt of income support, and 3. employing Foucault's concepts of the technologies of domination and the self to highlight the controlling and coercive aspects of Mutual Obligation in achieving certain of the Government's political and policy objectives. In doing so, the analysis will make visible something of the power exerted over the disadvantaged while subject to such surveillance.

The evolution of social policy analysis in Ireland: from a theocentric to an econocentric paradigm?

2021 ◽  
pp. 33-46
Author(s):  
Fiona Dukelow
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Economic Valuation ◽  
Policy Context ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S

This chapter situates policy analysis within a social policy context and begins by stressing its early theocratic formation. It is an examination of the history of social policy analysis in Ireland since the 1950s, when the country began its journey towards modernity. The chapter reviews the actors and institutions involved and the knowledge deployed as the country moved towards a globalised society with its attendant social policy challenges. Dukelow charts the complexities of social policy analysis under what she characterises as the shift from the dominance of a theocentric paradigm to an econocentric paradigm. This saw the subordinating of the social to the economic valuation of social policy by the 1990s.

Measuring Opportunity: Toward a Contractarian Measure of Individual Interest

1998 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Sugden
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Good Reason ◽  
Central Problem ◽  
Individual Interest ◽  
Social Good ◽  
The Social ◽  
Liberal Political Theory ◽  
Freedom Of Action ◽  
As If

Liberals have often been attracted by contractarian modes of argument— and with good reason. Any system of social organization requires that some constraints be imposed on individuals' freedom of action; it is a central problem for any liberal political theory to show which constraints can be justified, and which cannot. A contractarian justification works by showing that the constraints in question can be understood as if they were the product of an agreement, voluntarily entered into by every member of society. Thus, no one is required to give up his freedom for someone else's benefit, or in the pursuit of someone else's conception of the social good.

Same/Other versus Friend/Enemy

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aryeh Botwinick
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
The Self ◽  
Liberal Theory ◽  
Key Terms ◽  
Liberal Political Theory

This chapter endeavors to show that the relevant contrasting term to friend in liberal political theory is not enemy but self. Given the skepticism that suffuses liberal theory, the self remains an endlessly problematic construct that gives us ongoing opportunities for reimagining and reconstructing what the behavior of both friends and enemies is truly like. The chapter examines key terms in the liberal epistemological vocabulary such as skepticism, empiricism, nominalism, and conventionalism to clarify their import for the liberal conceptions of personal identity, friend, and enemy. Throughout, the chapter shows how the Levinasian deployment of the same–other distinction with its devolution upon the concept of infinity offers us a revealing guide to liberal political thought and practice and thereby also constitutes an important implicit critique of Schmitt.

scholarly journals Personalisation and Partnership: Competing Objectives in English Adult Social Care? The Individual Budget Pilot Projects and the NHS

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Glendinning ◽  
Nicola Moran ◽  
David Challis ◽  
José-Luis Fernández ◽  
Sally Jacobs ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Older People ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Pilot Projects ◽  
Care Services ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Previous Decade ◽  
Policy Objectives ◽  
The Individual

As in other countries, improving collaboration between health and social care services is a long-established objective of English social policy. A more recent priority has been the personalisation of social care for adults and older people through the introduction of individualised funding arrangements. Individual budgets (IBs) were piloted in 13 English local authorities from 2005 to 2007, but they explicitly excluded NHS resources and services. This article draws on interviews with lead officers responsible for implementing IBs. It shows how the contexts of local collaboration created problems for the implementation of the personalisation pilots, jeopardised inter-sectoral relationships and threatened some of the collaborative arrangements that had developed over the previous decade. Personal budgets for some health services have subsequently also been piloted. These will need to build upon the experiences of the social care IB pilots, so that policy objectives of personalisation do not undermine previous collaborative achievements.

Not just nuisance: spatialising social statistics

2019 ◽  
pp. 149-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Harris
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Statistical Analyses ◽  
Units Of Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Statistical Assumptions ◽  
Social Statistics ◽  
Dominant Treatment

Outside of the specialist community of quantitative spatial researchers’ statistical analyses in the social sciences see geography merely as simple units of analysis or else as nuisance risks to the satisfaction of underlying statistical assumptions, if indeed it sees geography at all. In step-by-step discussion and visualisations this chapter upends that dominant treatment by illustrating the range of rich and frequently untapped spatial insights that a clearer understanding and grasp of specialist but (relatively) straightforward spatial methodologies can bring substantively to social policy analysis and practice.

The Social Division of Welfare Surveillance

2008 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
PAUL HENMAN ◽  
GREG MARSTON
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Electronic Surveillance ◽  
Social Division ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Social Divisions ◽  
The Social ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Critical Social

AbstractElectronic surveillance has grown rapidly in recent years. Despite this, surveillance practices and their social products are yet to receive serious attention in the academic field of social policy. Extending Titmuss’ classical articulation of the social division of welfare, this article develops the notion of the social division of welfare surveillance to point to the way in which surveillance, compliance burdens and risk management unevenly operate within society. The implications for reinforcing social divisions and critical social policy analysis are discussed.

Social Policy Digest

1995 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 423-441
Author(s):  
Jo Campling
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Research Unit ◽  
Steady Increase ◽  
Income Support ◽  
Government Failure ◽  
Secretary Of State ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government

In November, the Secretary of State for Social Security announced that benefits would be uprated in line with inflation in April 1995. However, since 1979, there has been a widening gap between the incomes of poor and wealthier households (94—24/2—1.1). A report from the Social Policy Research Unit (SPRU) highlights government failure to uprate benefits in line with earnings as contributing to this growing inequality. Figures produced by the Government Statistical Service on the estimated take-up of incomerelated benefits for 1992 claim that more than four out of five of those eligible claim some £9 out of £10 of the available cash. The figures for family credit show a steady increase in take-up from 57 per cent of the caseload in 1988–9 to 66 per cent in 1991–2. Income support figures suggest that the take-up is now between 77 and 87 per cent.

Social Policy Digest

1996 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-270
Author(s):  
Fran Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Advisory Committee ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
Income Support ◽  
Welfare Dependency ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government

A new chief executive of the Benefits Agency, and a new chairperson of the Social Security Advisory Committee, have been appointed. In its response to the Social Security Committee's recent report on social security expenditure, the government revealed that by 1992/3, 30 per cent of individuals were living in households receiving at least one means-tested benefit. In November 1994, there were 5.7 million income support claimants, with just under 1 million partners and 3.2 million other dependants; almost 1.7 million claimants had one or more deductions from their weekly income support (25:1/97, 1.7; 24:3/95, 1.3). In May 1994, more than 3 million people had been claiming income support for more than two years (24:2/94, 1.1). An Institute of Economic Affairs (EEA) report claimed that recent governments' tax and benefit policies have played a central role in increasing welfare dependency.

Providing Freshmen with a Good “Starting-Block”

2019 ◽  
Vol 78 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 69-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikaël De Clercq ◽  
Charlotte Michel ◽  
Sophie Remy ◽  
Benoît Galand
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Student Adjustment ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Pivotal Phase ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Study Task ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Belonging ◽  
Intention To Persist

Abstract. Grounded in social-psychological literature, this experimental study assessed the effects of two so-called “wise” interventions implemented in a student study program. The interventions took place during the very first week at university, a presumed pivotal phase of transition. A group of 375 freshmen in psychology were randomly assigned to three conditions: control, social belonging, and self-affirmation. Following the intervention, students in the social-belonging condition expressed less social apprehension, a higher social integration, and a stronger intention to persist one month later than the other participants. They also relied more on peers as a source of support when confronted with a study task. Students in the self-affirmation condition felt more self-affirmed at the end of the intervention but didn’t benefit from other lasting effects. The results suggest that some well-timed and well-targeted “wise” interventions could provide lasting positive consequences for student adjustment. The respective merits of social-belonging and self-affirmation interventions are also discussed.

Summary

1999 ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Editorial board Of the Journal
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
The Self ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
World Outlook ◽  
The Social

In the 10th issue of the Bulletin “Ukrainian Religious Studies” in the rubric “Scientific Reports and Announcements” there are in particular the following papers: “Religious Studies and Theology” by A.Kolodny, “Activity of the Orthodox Mission in Ukraine on the Turning Point of the XIX-XXth Centuries” by G.Nadtoka, “Religion in the Spiritual Heritage of V.Lypinsky” by L.Kondratyk, “Church as a Factor of the Self-identification of the Nation in the Cultural and Civilization Environment” by O.Nedavnya, “The Problems of Development of The Social Teaching of the Catholicism” by V.Sergyiko, “The God-Thunder Perun in the Pagan World-outlook of the Ancient Rus’” by N.Fatyushyna and other papers

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