Edmiston, D orcid.org/0000-0001-8715-654X (2017) Welfare, Austerity and Social Citizenship in the UK. Social Policy and Society, 16 (2). pp. 261-270. ISSN 1474-7464
Abstract
Viewed within their historical context, recent cuts to public social spending and increasingly governmental welfare reforms reflect and beget a shift in the praxis of social citizenship in the UK. This review article demonstrates how greater conceptual attention to the constitutive features of social citizenship can help clarify some of the claims made about its relation to austerity and welfare reform within the existing literature. Through schematic consideration of the emerging evidence, this article suggests that welfare austerity is undermining the ‘effectiveness’, ‘inalienability’ and ‘universality’ of social citizenship in the UK.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016, Cambridge University Press. This is an author produced version of an article published in a revised form in Social Policy and Society https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746416000531. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. |
Keywords: | Welfare, austerity, social citizenship, sorites paradox, rights |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Sociology and Social Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 08 May 2017 13:35 |
Last Modified: | 22 Jul 2017 15:50 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/S1474746416000531 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:116037 |