Helen Bolderson
Biographic Data
| ID | 244684 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Bolderson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen |
| FAMILY NAME | Bolderson |
| SIGNATURE | BOLDERSON H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brunel University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Non-Discrimination, Free Movement, and Social Citizenship in Europe: Contrasting Provisions for EU Nationals and Asylum-Seekers
This chapter describes coordination arrangements governing migrants’ access to social security. It shows that the insurance nature of many benefits has provided a relatively uncontentious basis for the coordination of social security provision for migrants. The chapter examines the situation of non-nationals who stay in, and endeavor to claim benefits from, the host state, rather than returning to their home state. It explores the situation of as…
The Ethics of Welfare Provision for Migrants: A Case for Equal Treatment and the Repositioning of Welfare
The paper examines the structure of selection that determines migrants' welfare rights. Using illustrations from the UK, it confirms that migrants' welfare rights are stratified by, and dependent on, immigration status. It describes the outcome of this structure and shows why welfare policies need to reclaim independence from immigration policies to which they have become tied. Using terms from Walzer (1983), an argument is made for 'autonomy' in…
Devolved Social Security Systems: Principal-agent versus multi-level governance
This paper presents an analytical framework for comparing patterns of devolution to subnational governments and autonomous social insurance institutions in social security systems. The framework has two components. One is an analysis of financial structures along the dimensions of financial autonomy (indicated by the extent to which the administering institution raises its own revenue or depends on central grants) and financial responsibility (in…
Cost containment in complex social security systems: The limitations of targeting
Two aspects of the structure of existing social security systems limit the scope for containing costs by increasing targeting: the insurance principle, and the use of category membership to establish eligibility for benefits. The first aspect is antithetical to targeting because the most needy people are also the most likely to fail to establish an adequate contributions record. Some countries appear committed to maintaining the insurance princip…
Mongrels or thoroughbreds: A cross‐national look at social security systems
This paper reviews the methodological issues raised by different commentators' attempts to categorise countries' social security systems into ‘regime types’ or ‘models’. It is argued that there are two major problems with these categorisations: (1) the difficulty of finding empirical counterparts to the theoretical concepts used; (2) the complexity of actual social security systems, arising in particular from the diversity of benefits within each…
The social security persons abroad regulations a case for policy analysis
The Persons Abroad Regulations form a minor and arcane part of British social security legislation but although little known or discussed they have major implications. Except in cases where Britain has reciprocal social security agreements with other countries, these Regulations govern whether people can continue to be paid their benefit when they go abroad with different restrictions applying to different benefits. The Regulations thus raise som…
The Right to Appeal and the Social Fund
against discretionary decisions on grants and loans made under the new Social Fund has been a contentious issue. This article attempts to set out the problems surrounding this issue. However, as the Social Fund is intended to deal with payments to meet the exceptional needs of people who have insufficient resources, the paper first outlines the background to such payments and the role of the Social Fund. It then examines in more detail the implic…
Comparing Social Policies: Some Problems of Method and the Case of Social Security Benefits in Australia, Britain and the USA
The cross-national works of development sociologists and of political scientists have sought to disentangle some of the determinants of welfare, whereas studies in comparative social policy have been mainly evaluative. These have laid themselves open to charges of being, variously, a-theoretical, unsystematic and narrowly focused on the state sector. However, a case is made here for the continuation of such studies with a clear focus on social po…
The State at one Remove: Examples of Agency Arrangements and Regulatory Powers in Social Policy
A major boundary change took place in social policy when Statutory Sick Pay replaced Sickness Benefit. When proposed in 1980, it met with much resistance from interest groups but since its introduction in 1983, relatively little attention has been paid to it. This paper argues that there are implications which need to be examined when a shift takes place from welfare state provision to welfare society provision in which the emphasis is on an inte…
Ambiguity and Obscurity in Policy-Making for Social Security
The article offers some explanations for the different responses to recent developments in British social security policy. Lack of opposition to reductions in national insurance benefits in 1980 is contrasted with resistance put up to the employers’ statutory sickness benefit scheme. Following Derthick’s analysis of American social security policy-making, it is suggested that major policy shifts in the 1980 benefit changes were not recognised bec…
The Origins of the Disabled Persons Employment Quota and its Symbolic Significance
This article explores why some of the arrangements for the employment of disabled people are so resistant to change despite their evident shortcomings. From historical data it is argued that the negotiations which shaped the Disabled Persons Employment Act 1944 were motivated by sectional concerns which were detrimental to the interests of disabled people but that the legislation subsequently became symbolic of deeply felt and widely shared value…
Compensation for Disability: The Social and Economic Objectives of Disability Benefits
Difficulties encountered in the transfer of money to a minority group in society are explored. Should benefits for disabled people seek to mitigate earnings loss, functional incapacity or damage? Should they take the form of contingency benefits, merited payment, or compensatory and reparatory 'gifts'? What are the reasons for the different approaches adopted in the War Pensions, Industrial Injuries, and Invalidity Benefit schemes?An historical a…
Mongrels or thoroughbreds: A cross‐national look at social security systems
This paper reviews the methodological issues raised by different commentators' attempts to categorise countries' social security systems into ‘regime types’ or ‘models’. It is argued that there are two major problems with these categorisations: (1) the difficulty of finding empirical counterparts to the theoretical concepts used; (2) the complexity of actual social security systems, arising in particular from the diversity of benefits within each…
The Ethics of Welfare Provision for Migrants: A Case for Equal Treatment and the Repositioning of Welfare
The paper examines the structure of selection that determines migrants' welfare rights. Using illustrations from the UK, it confirms that migrants' welfare rights are stratified by, and dependent on, immigration status. It describes the outcome of this structure and shows why welfare policies need to reclaim independence from immigration policies to which they have become tied. Using terms from Walzer (1983), an argument is made for 'autonomy' in…
Devolved Social Security Systems: Principal-agent versus multi-level governance
This paper presents an analytical framework for comparing patterns of devolution to subnational governments and autonomous social insurance institutions in social security systems. The framework has two components. One is an analysis of financial structures along the dimensions of financial autonomy (indicated by the extent to which the administering institution raises its own revenue or depends on central grants) and financial responsibility (in…
Cost containment in complex social security systems: The limitations of targeting
Two aspects of the structure of existing social security systems limit the scope for containing costs by increasing targeting: the insurance principle, and the use of category membership to establish eligibility for benefits. The first aspect is antithetical to targeting because the most needy people are also the most likely to fail to establish an adequate contributions record. Some countries appear committed to maintaining the insurance princip…
The State at one Remove: Examples of Agency Arrangements and Regulatory Powers in Social Policy
A major boundary change took place in social policy when Statutory Sick Pay replaced Sickness Benefit. When proposed in 1980, it met with much resistance from interest groups but since its introduction in 1983, relatively little attention has been paid to it. This paper argues that there are implications which need to be examined when a shift takes place from welfare state provision to welfare society provision in which the emphasis is on an inte…
Ambiguity and Obscurity in Policy-Making for Social Security
The article offers some explanations for the different responses to recent developments in British social security policy. Lack of opposition to reductions in national insurance benefits in 1980 is contrasted with resistance put up to the employers’ statutory sickness benefit scheme. Following Derthick’s analysis of American social security policy-making, it is suggested that major policy shifts in the 1980 benefit changes were not recognised bec…
The Origins of the Disabled Persons Employment Quota and its Symbolic Significance
This article explores why some of the arrangements for the employment of disabled people are so resistant to change despite their evident shortcomings. From historical data it is argued that the negotiations which shaped the Disabled Persons Employment Act 1944 were motivated by sectional concerns which were detrimental to the interests of disabled people but that the legislation subsequently became symbolic of deeply felt and widely shared value…
Compensation for Disability: The Social and Economic Objectives of Disability Benefits
Difficulties encountered in the transfer of money to a minority group in society are explored. Should benefits for disabled people seek to mitigate earnings loss, functional incapacity or damage? Should they take the form of contingency benefits, merited payment, or compensatory and reparatory 'gifts'? What are the reasons for the different approaches adopted in the War Pensions, Industrial Injuries, and Invalidity Benefit schemes?An historical a…
The Origins of the Disabled Persons Employment Quota and its Symbolic Significance
This article explores why some of the arrangements for the employment of disabled people are so resistant to change despite their evident shortcomings. From historical data it is argued that the negotiations which shaped the Disabled Persons Employment Act 1944 were motivated by sectional concerns which were detrimental to the interests of disabled people but that the legislation subsequently became symbolic of deeply felt and widely shared value…
Ambiguity and Obscurity in Policy-Making for Social Security
The article offers some explanations for the different responses to recent developments in British social security policy. Lack of opposition to reductions in national insurance benefits in 1980 is contrasted with resistance put up to the employers’ statutory sickness benefit scheme. Following Derthick’s analysis of American social security policy-making, it is suggested that major policy shifts in the 1980 benefit changes were not recognised bec…
The State at one Remove: Examples of Agency Arrangements and Regulatory Powers in Social Policy
A major boundary change took place in social policy when Statutory Sick Pay replaced Sickness Benefit. When proposed in 1980, it met with much resistance from interest groups but since its introduction in 1983, relatively little attention has been paid to it. This paper argues that there are implications which need to be examined when a shift takes place from welfare state provision to welfare society provision in which the emphasis is on an inte…
The Right to Appeal and the Social Fund
against discretionary decisions on grants and loans made under the new Social Fund has been a contentious issue. This article attempts to set out the problems surrounding this issue. However, as the Social Fund is intended to deal with payments to meet the exceptional needs of people who have insufficient resources, the paper first outlines the background to such payments and the role of the Social Fund. It then examines in more detail the implic…
Comparing Social Policies: Some Problems of Method and the Case of Social Security Benefits in Australia, Britain and the USA
The cross-national works of development sociologists and of political scientists have sought to disentangle some of the determinants of welfare, whereas studies in comparative social policy have been mainly evaluative. These have laid themselves open to charges of being, variously, a-theoretical, unsystematic and narrowly focused on the state sector. However, a case is made here for the continuation of such studies with a clear focus on social po…
The social security persons abroad regulations a case for policy analysis
The Persons Abroad Regulations form a minor and arcane part of British social security legislation but although little known or discussed they have major implications. Except in cases where Britain has reciprocal social security agreements with other countries, these Regulations govern whether people can continue to be paid their benefit when they go abroad with different restrictions applying to different benefits. The Regulations thus raise som…
Mongrels or thoroughbreds: A cross‐national look at social security systems
This paper reviews the methodological issues raised by different commentators' attempts to categorise countries' social security systems into ‘regime types’ or ‘models’. It is argued that there are two major problems with these categorisations: (1) the difficulty of finding empirical counterparts to the theoretical concepts used; (2) the complexity of actual social security systems, arising in particular from the diversity of benefits within each…
Cost containment in complex social security systems: The limitations of targeting
Two aspects of the structure of existing social security systems limit the scope for containing costs by increasing targeting: the insurance principle, and the use of category membership to establish eligibility for benefits. The first aspect is antithetical to targeting because the most needy people are also the most likely to fail to establish an adequate contributions record. Some countries appear committed to maintaining the insurance princip…
Devolved Social Security Systems: Principal-agent versus multi-level governance
This paper presents an analytical framework for comparing patterns of devolution to subnational governments and autonomous social insurance institutions in social security systems. The framework has two components. One is an analysis of financial structures along the dimensions of financial autonomy (indicated by the extent to which the administering institution raises its own revenue or depends on central grants) and financial responsibility (in…
The Ethics of Welfare Provision for Migrants: A Case for Equal Treatment and the Repositioning of Welfare
The paper examines the structure of selection that determines migrants' welfare rights. Using illustrations from the UK, it confirms that migrants' welfare rights are stratified by, and dependent on, immigration status. It describes the outcome of this structure and shows why welfare policies need to reclaim independence from immigration policies to which they have become tied. Using terms from Walzer (1983), an argument is made for 'autonomy' in…
Non-Discrimination, Free Movement, and Social Citizenship in Europe: Contrasting Provisions for EU Nationals and Asylum-Seekers
This chapter describes coordination arrangements governing migrants’ access to social security. It shows that the insurance nature of many benefits has provided a relatively uncontentious basis for the coordination of social security provision for migrants. The chapter examines the situation of non-nationals who stay in, and endeavor to claim benefits from, the host state, rather than returning to their home state. It explores the situation of as…
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