New Contractualism in European Welfare State Policies

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rune Ervik
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
State Policies ◽  
European Welfare State ◽  
Welfare State Policies

WELFARE STATE POLICIES AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF CARE ARRANGEMENTS

2005 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 321-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Birgit Pfau-Effinger
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
State Policies ◽  
Welfare State Policies

Manufacturing Responsibility: The Governmentality of Behavioural Power in Social Policies

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rik Peeters
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
State Policies ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
Moral Imperative ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Psychological Mechanisms ◽  
Conceptual Clarity ◽  
Welfare State Policies

Responsibilisation is commonly associated with a neoliberal transfer of responsibilities from state to social actors. However, it also covers the construction of responsibility where it does not exist yet – where citizens need socialisation to manufacture responsibility so they become economically and socially active, healthy, and productive subjects. This article aims to bring more conceptual clarity in these practices. Based on an analysis of literature on contemporary welfare state policies, three different techniques are discerned: reciprocal governance in welfare state services; training and treatment of vulnerable citizens through support and structure; and choice engineering by working upon the unconscious and psychological triggers underlying decision making. These techniques of behavioural power seek responsibilisation by working upon people's understanding of responsibility as a moral imperative and upon the rational or psychological mechanisms that constitute the choices they make and the attitudes they have.

Linking population heterogeneity with poverty

2014 ◽  
Vol 34 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 47-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Udaya R. Wagle
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Latent Variable ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
State Policies ◽  
Population Heterogeneity ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Operational Strategy ◽  
Data Limitations ◽  
Welfare State Policies

Purpose – This paper aims to examine how population heterogeneity contributes to poverty in 17 high-income Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries during 1980-2005. Design/methodology/approach – The operational strategy involves linking poverty with heterogeneity directly as well as indirectly through welfare state policies as a latent variable in a structural equation framework. Findings – Findings support the widely held poverty-reducing roles of welfare state policies. Ethno-racial and religious diversities are found to positively contribute to welfare state policies and, through them, lower poverty, whereas immigration assumes opposite roles. Research limitations/implications – Data limitations on population and especially ethno-racial and religious heterogeneity caution against definitiveness. Originality/value – The findings are useful in understanding the heterogeneity connection of welfare state policies and poverty.

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