Jay Wiggan
Biographic Data
| ID | 253076 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jay Wiggan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jay |
| FAMILY NAME | Wiggan |
| SIGNATURE | WIGGAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8773-2583 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 147 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Bolsonaro Government’s 2019 pension reform in Brazil: A policy discourse analysis
In 2019, the Brazilian Government secured support to pass radical reforms to the state pension system. Drawing on concepts from historical materialist policy analysis and critical discourse analysis, this paper contributes to understanding how the Bolsonaro Government utilized narratives of inter- and intra-class and generational (in)equity to problematize constitutional guarantees of social and economic rights and warrant fiscal austerity and cu…
The politics of job retention schemes in Britain: The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and the Temporary Short Time Working Compensation Scheme
The UK Government's introduction of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) in March 2020 was pitched as unprecedented. Yet, during the 1970s and 1980s, UK governments also operated wage subsidy job retention schemes. Indeed, despite their professed liberal market orientation, Thatcher's radical right Conservative governments presided over the expansive Temporary Short Time Working Compensation Scheme (TSTWCS) between 1979 and 1984. Drawing u…
The Journal of Social Policy Turns 50 - Time for Reflections and Looking to the Future
When we began discussing how to mark the th anniversary of the Journal of Social Policy, we reflected on how the journal has provided a platform to showcase top-quality research in Social Policy and been a resource to successive generations of academics, practitioners and policy makers. Naturally, Social Policy has changed over the past yearsand so has the journal. One of the reasons for a strong continued presence of Social Policy in the UK is i…
Marketization and Varieties of Accountability Relationships in Employment Services: Comparing Denmark, Germany, and Great Britain
In the past decade, European countries have contracted out public employment service functions to “activate” working-age benefit clients. There has been limited discussion of how contracting out shapes the accountability of employment services or is shaped by alternative democratic, administrative, or network forms of accountability. This article examines employment service accountability in Germany, Denmark, and Great Britain. We find that marke…
Policy Boostering the Social Impact Investment Market in the UK
Under the Conservative-Liberal Coalition Government and the Conservative Government that took office in 2015, policy measures were introduced to develop a Social Impact Investment Market that harnesses private finance to invest in services to achieve social and financial outcomes. This nascent market is of growing interest amongst social scientists (Bryan and Rafferty, 2014; Whitfield, 2015; McHugh et al., 2013; Dowling, 2017; Edmiston and Nichol…
The Time‐related Underemployment of Lone Parents during Welfare Reform, Recession and Austerity: A Challenge to In‐work Conditionality
Reforms to UK social security benefits introduced between 2008 and 2012 that increased lone parent obligations to enter employment coincided with economic crisis and government austerity. Increases in underemployment in the broader population during this period both in terms of unemployment and time‐related underemployment raise questions regarding the extent to which lone parents not only managed to enter paid work but obtain a sufficient number…
Contesting the austerity and “welfare reform” narrative of the UK Government: Forging a social democratic imaginary in Scotland
Purpose The “welfare reform” narrative of successive Conservative-led UK Government emphasises public spending reductions, individual responsibility and strengthening of benefit conditionality. The purpose of this paper is to cast light on how this narrative is challenged and disrupted by the Scottish Government through their articulation of a social democratic welfare state imaginary. Design/methodology/approach The study draws together a decent…
Reading active labour market policy politically: An autonomist analysis of Britain’s Work Programme and Mandatory Work Activity
Drawing on Autonomist Marxist theory this article situates the 2010–15 Conservative–Liberal Coalition government’s active labour market policy as the most recent phase in a state ‘strategy of underdevelopment’ (Cleaver, 1977) to erode the autonomy of labour power and facilitate a reconfiguration of labour and work to impose (competition for) undesirable jobs on the terms and conditions offered by capital (Peck, 2001: 349). The article contends th…
Varieties of marketisation in the UK: Examining divergence in activation markets between Great Britain and Northern Ireland 2008–2014
This article examines the sub-national diversity in activation quasi-markets in the United Kingdom (UK). Through comparison of four active labour market programmes in Great Britain and Northern Ireland between 2008 and 2014, the article clarifies and maps intra-UK diversity in employment service governance and unpacks the shifting configurations of market structures in each jurisdiction to reveal a temporally and spatially distinct patterning of …
Telling stories of 21st century welfare: The UK Coalition government and the neo-liberal discourse of worklessness and dependency
Policy documents are a useful source for understanding the privileging of particular ideological and policy preferences (Scrase and Ockwell, 2010) and how the language and imagery may help to construct society’s assumptions, values and beliefs. This article examines how the UK Coalition government’s 2010 Green Paper, 21 st Century Welfare, and the White Paper, Universal Credit: Welfare that Works, assist in constructing a discourse about social s…
A kingdom united? Devolution and welfare reform in Northern Ireland and Great Britain
Welfare to work has received less attention in devolution studies than other policy sectors. Drawing on Hall's (1993) ‘orders of change’ model as an analytical framework, this article addresses this deficit. The devolution settlement and constitutional question in Northern Ireland limit the likelihood of radical departure from ‘parity’ with Great Britain1 but differences are emerging
Choice and Welfare Reform: Lone Parents' Decision Making around Paid Work and Family Life
Welfare-to-work policy in the UK sees 'choice' regarding lone parents' employment decisions increasingly defined in terms of powers of selection between options within active labour market programmes, with constraints on the option of non-market activity progressively tightened. In this paper, we examine the wider choice agenda in public services in relation to lone-parent employment, focusing on the period following the 2007 Freud Review of welf…
Managing time: The integration of caring and paid work by low-income families and the role of the UK's tax credit system
Under the New Labour governments in the UK, successive reforms of the tax and benefit system sought to improve the financial benefits of paid work. Drawing on two waves of qualitative interviews with low-income working families this article examines the role of the UK tax credit system in shaping decisions about employment and unpaid care work. The article suggests that the financial support provided for lone-parent participants by the tax credit…
Mapping the Governance Reform of Welfare to Work in Britain Under New Labor
This article draws on Newman's (2001 Newman, J. 2001. Modernising governance — New Labour, policy and society, London: Sage Publications. [Google Scholar], 2007 Newman, J. 2007. The “double dynamics” of activation: Institutions, Citizens and the remaking of welfare governance. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 27(9/10): 364–375. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]) typology of the modernization of governance under New Labor, to exam…
Reforms of Welfare Administration and Policy—A Comparison of Complexity and Hybridization: An Introduction
Reforms of Welfare Administration and Policy—A Comparison of Complexity and Hybridization: An Introduction Tom Christensen a , Matthias Knuth b , Per Laegreid c & Jay Wiggan d a Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway b Institute for Work, Skills and Training, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany c Department of Administration and Organisation Theory, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway d School of Sociology,…
Reforming the United Kingdom's public employment and social security agencies
The creation, during Labour's second term, of the Department for Work and Pensions and the new delivery agency Jobcentre Plus, was a significant reorganization of the administration of employment and social security policy. Drawing on Regulation theory the article argues that reform was structurally driven by the need to ensure delivery mechanisms aligned with Labour's vision of an `employment first' welfare state. The organization and objectives…
Administering economic reform: New Labour and the governance of social security
English This article argues that the introduction of new governance and performance frameworks for social security administration stems from Labour's adoption of an endogenous growth economic model. The institutional structure for administering employment and social security that Labour inherited in 1997 was not suitable to support its socioeconomic objectives. The creation of Jobcentre Plus and the Department for Work and Pensions and the reorie…
The benefits of welfare rights advice
Welfare rights advice provides a range of information, support, advice and advocacy services to a wide demographic, covering people who have multiple and varied needs, attitudes, behaviour and eligibility for services and assistance (ASA, 2003; Bateman, 2006). The National Association of Welfare Rights Advisers recently commissioned a literature review of existing research into the benefits of welfare rights advice (see Wiggan and Talbot, 2006), …
Telling stories of 21st century welfare: The UK Coalition government and the neo-liberal discourse of worklessness and dependency
Policy documents are a useful source for understanding the privileging of particular ideological and policy preferences (Scrase and Ockwell, 2010) and how the language and imagery may help to construct society’s assumptions, values and beliefs. This article examines how the UK Coalition government’s 2010 Green Paper, 21 st Century Welfare, and the White Paper, Universal Credit: Welfare that Works, assist in constructing a discourse about social s…
Reading active labour market policy politically: An autonomist analysis of Britain’s Work Programme and Mandatory Work Activity
Drawing on Autonomist Marxist theory this article situates the 2010–15 Conservative–Liberal Coalition government’s active labour market policy as the most recent phase in a state ‘strategy of underdevelopment’ (Cleaver, 1977) to erode the autonomy of labour power and facilitate a reconfiguration of labour and work to impose (competition for) undesirable jobs on the terms and conditions offered by capital (Peck, 2001: 349). The article contends th…
Choice and Welfare Reform: Lone Parents' Decision Making around Paid Work and Family Life
Welfare-to-work policy in the UK sees 'choice' regarding lone parents' employment decisions increasingly defined in terms of powers of selection between options within active labour market programmes, with constraints on the option of non-market activity progressively tightened. In this paper, we examine the wider choice agenda in public services in relation to lone-parent employment, focusing on the period following the 2007 Freud Review of welf…
Marketization and Varieties of Accountability Relationships in Employment Services: Comparing Denmark, Germany, and Great Britain
In the past decade, European countries have contracted out public employment service functions to “activate” working-age benefit clients. There has been limited discussion of how contracting out shapes the accountability of employment services or is shaped by alternative democratic, administrative, or network forms of accountability. This article examines employment service accountability in Germany, Denmark, and Great Britain. We find that marke…
The Time‐related Underemployment of Lone Parents during Welfare Reform, Recession and Austerity: A Challenge to In‐work Conditionality
Reforms to UK social security benefits introduced between 2008 and 2012 that increased lone parent obligations to enter employment coincided with economic crisis and government austerity. Increases in underemployment in the broader population during this period both in terms of unemployment and time‐related underemployment raise questions regarding the extent to which lone parents not only managed to enter paid work but obtain a sufficient number…
Policy Boostering the Social Impact Investment Market in the UK
Under the Conservative-Liberal Coalition Government and the Conservative Government that took office in 2015, policy measures were introduced to develop a Social Impact Investment Market that harnesses private finance to invest in services to achieve social and financial outcomes. This nascent market is of growing interest amongst social scientists (Bryan and Rafferty, 2014; Whitfield, 2015; McHugh et al., 2013; Dowling, 2017; Edmiston and Nichol…
Contesting the austerity and “welfare reform” narrative of the UK Government: Forging a social democratic imaginary in Scotland
Purpose The “welfare reform” narrative of successive Conservative-led UK Government emphasises public spending reductions, individual responsibility and strengthening of benefit conditionality. The purpose of this paper is to cast light on how this narrative is challenged and disrupted by the Scottish Government through their articulation of a social democratic welfare state imaginary. Design/methodology/approach The study draws together a decent…
Varieties of marketisation in the UK: Examining divergence in activation markets between Great Britain and Northern Ireland 2008–2014
This article examines the sub-national diversity in activation quasi-markets in the United Kingdom (UK). Through comparison of four active labour market programmes in Great Britain and Northern Ireland between 2008 and 2014, the article clarifies and maps intra-UK diversity in employment service governance and unpacks the shifting configurations of market structures in each jurisdiction to reveal a temporally and spatially distinct patterning of …
A kingdom united? Devolution and welfare reform in Northern Ireland and Great Britain
Welfare to work has received less attention in devolution studies than other policy sectors. Drawing on Hall's (1993) ‘orders of change’ model as an analytical framework, this article addresses this deficit. The devolution settlement and constitutional question in Northern Ireland limit the likelihood of radical departure from ‘parity’ with Great Britain1 but differences are emerging
The politics of job retention schemes in Britain: The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and the Temporary Short Time Working Compensation Scheme
The UK Government's introduction of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) in March 2020 was pitched as unprecedented. Yet, during the 1970s and 1980s, UK governments also operated wage subsidy job retention schemes. Indeed, despite their professed liberal market orientation, Thatcher's radical right Conservative governments presided over the expansive Temporary Short Time Working Compensation Scheme (TSTWCS) between 1979 and 1984. Drawing u…
The Journal of Social Policy Turns 50 - Time for Reflections and Looking to the Future
When we began discussing how to mark the th anniversary of the Journal of Social Policy, we reflected on how the journal has provided a platform to showcase top-quality research in Social Policy and been a resource to successive generations of academics, practitioners and policy makers. Naturally, Social Policy has changed over the past yearsand so has the journal. One of the reasons for a strong continued presence of Social Policy in the UK is i…
Reforming the United Kingdom's public employment and social security agencies
The creation, during Labour's second term, of the Department for Work and Pensions and the new delivery agency Jobcentre Plus, was a significant reorganization of the administration of employment and social security policy. Drawing on Regulation theory the article argues that reform was structurally driven by the need to ensure delivery mechanisms aligned with Labour's vision of an `employment first' welfare state. The organization and objectives…
Administering economic reform: New Labour and the governance of social security
English This article argues that the introduction of new governance and performance frameworks for social security administration stems from Labour's adoption of an endogenous growth economic model. The institutional structure for administering employment and social security that Labour inherited in 1997 was not suitable to support its socioeconomic objectives. The creation of Jobcentre Plus and the Department for Work and Pensions and the reorie…
The benefits of welfare rights advice
Welfare rights advice provides a range of information, support, advice and advocacy services to a wide demographic, covering people who have multiple and varied needs, attitudes, behaviour and eligibility for services and assistance (ASA, 2003; Bateman, 2006). The National Association of Welfare Rights Advisers recently commissioned a literature review of existing research into the benefits of welfare rights advice (see Wiggan and Talbot, 2006), …
The benefits of welfare rights advice
Welfare rights advice provides a range of information, support, advice and advocacy services to a wide demographic, covering people who have multiple and varied needs, attitudes, behaviour and eligibility for services and assistance (ASA, 2003; Bateman, 2006). The National Association of Welfare Rights Advisers recently commissioned a literature review of existing research into the benefits of welfare rights advice (see Wiggan and Talbot, 2006), …
Reforming the United Kingdom's public employment and social security agencies
The creation, during Labour's second term, of the Department for Work and Pensions and the new delivery agency Jobcentre Plus, was a significant reorganization of the administration of employment and social security policy. Drawing on Regulation theory the article argues that reform was structurally driven by the need to ensure delivery mechanisms aligned with Labour's vision of an `employment first' welfare state. The organization and objectives…
Administering economic reform: New Labour and the governance of social security
English This article argues that the introduction of new governance and performance frameworks for social security administration stems from Labour's adoption of an endogenous growth economic model. The institutional structure for administering employment and social security that Labour inherited in 1997 was not suitable to support its socioeconomic objectives. The creation of Jobcentre Plus and the Department for Work and Pensions and the reorie…
Mapping the Governance Reform of Welfare to Work in Britain Under New Labor
This article draws on Newman's (2001 Newman, J. 2001. Modernising governance — New Labour, policy and society, London: Sage Publications. [Google Scholar], 2007 Newman, J. 2007. The “double dynamics” of activation: Institutions, Citizens and the remaking of welfare governance. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 27(9/10): 364–375. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]) typology of the modernization of governance under New Labor, to exam…
Reforms of Welfare Administration and Policy—A Comparison of Complexity and Hybridization: An Introduction
Reforms of Welfare Administration and Policy—A Comparison of Complexity and Hybridization: An Introduction Tom Christensen a , Matthias Knuth b , Per Laegreid c & Jay Wiggan d a Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway b Institute for Work, Skills and Training, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany c Department of Administration and Organisation Theory, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway d School of Sociology,…
Managing time: The integration of caring and paid work by low-income families and the role of the UK's tax credit system
Under the New Labour governments in the UK, successive reforms of the tax and benefit system sought to improve the financial benefits of paid work. Drawing on two waves of qualitative interviews with low-income working families this article examines the role of the UK tax credit system in shaping decisions about employment and unpaid care work. The article suggests that the financial support provided for lone-parent participants by the tax credit…
Choice and Welfare Reform: Lone Parents' Decision Making around Paid Work and Family Life
Welfare-to-work policy in the UK sees 'choice' regarding lone parents' employment decisions increasingly defined in terms of powers of selection between options within active labour market programmes, with constraints on the option of non-market activity progressively tightened. In this paper, we examine the wider choice agenda in public services in relation to lone-parent employment, focusing on the period following the 2007 Freud Review of welf…
Telling stories of 21st century welfare: The UK Coalition government and the neo-liberal discourse of worklessness and dependency
Policy documents are a useful source for understanding the privileging of particular ideological and policy preferences (Scrase and Ockwell, 2010) and how the language and imagery may help to construct society’s assumptions, values and beliefs. This article examines how the UK Coalition government’s 2010 Green Paper, 21 st Century Welfare, and the White Paper, Universal Credit: Welfare that Works, assist in constructing a discourse about social s…
A kingdom united? Devolution and welfare reform in Northern Ireland and Great Britain
Welfare to work has received less attention in devolution studies than other policy sectors. Drawing on Hall's (1993) ‘orders of change’ model as an analytical framework, this article addresses this deficit. The devolution settlement and constitutional question in Northern Ireland limit the likelihood of radical departure from ‘parity’ with Great Britain1 but differences are emerging
Reading active labour market policy politically: An autonomist analysis of Britain’s Work Programme and Mandatory Work Activity
Drawing on Autonomist Marxist theory this article situates the 2010–15 Conservative–Liberal Coalition government’s active labour market policy as the most recent phase in a state ‘strategy of underdevelopment’ (Cleaver, 1977) to erode the autonomy of labour power and facilitate a reconfiguration of labour and work to impose (competition for) undesirable jobs on the terms and conditions offered by capital (Peck, 2001: 349). The article contends th…
Varieties of marketisation in the UK: Examining divergence in activation markets between Great Britain and Northern Ireland 2008–2014
This article examines the sub-national diversity in activation quasi-markets in the United Kingdom (UK). Through comparison of four active labour market programmes in Great Britain and Northern Ireland between 2008 and 2014, the article clarifies and maps intra-UK diversity in employment service governance and unpacks the shifting configurations of market structures in each jurisdiction to reveal a temporally and spatially distinct patterning of …
The Time‐related Underemployment of Lone Parents during Welfare Reform, Recession and Austerity: A Challenge to In‐work Conditionality
Reforms to UK social security benefits introduced between 2008 and 2012 that increased lone parent obligations to enter employment coincided with economic crisis and government austerity. Increases in underemployment in the broader population during this period both in terms of unemployment and time‐related underemployment raise questions regarding the extent to which lone parents not only managed to enter paid work but obtain a sufficient number…
Contesting the austerity and “welfare reform” narrative of the UK Government: Forging a social democratic imaginary in Scotland
Purpose The “welfare reform” narrative of successive Conservative-led UK Government emphasises public spending reductions, individual responsibility and strengthening of benefit conditionality. The purpose of this paper is to cast light on how this narrative is challenged and disrupted by the Scottish Government through their articulation of a social democratic welfare state imaginary. Design/methodology/approach The study draws together a decent…
Marketization and Varieties of Accountability Relationships in Employment Services: Comparing Denmark, Germany, and Great Britain
In the past decade, European countries have contracted out public employment service functions to “activate” working-age benefit clients. There has been limited discussion of how contracting out shapes the accountability of employment services or is shaped by alternative democratic, administrative, or network forms of accountability. This article examines employment service accountability in Germany, Denmark, and Great Britain. We find that marke…
Policy Boostering the Social Impact Investment Market in the UK
Under the Conservative-Liberal Coalition Government and the Conservative Government that took office in 2015, policy measures were introduced to develop a Social Impact Investment Market that harnesses private finance to invest in services to achieve social and financial outcomes. This nascent market is of growing interest amongst social scientists (Bryan and Rafferty, 2014; Whitfield, 2015; McHugh et al., 2013; Dowling, 2017; Edmiston and Nichol…
The politics of job retention schemes in Britain: The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and the Temporary Short Time Working Compensation Scheme
The UK Government's introduction of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) in March 2020 was pitched as unprecedented. Yet, during the 1970s and 1980s, UK governments also operated wage subsidy job retention schemes. Indeed, despite their professed liberal market orientation, Thatcher's radical right Conservative governments presided over the expansive Temporary Short Time Working Compensation Scheme (TSTWCS) between 1979 and 1984. Drawing u…
The Journal of Social Policy Turns 50 - Time for Reflections and Looking to the Future
When we began discussing how to mark the th anniversary of the Journal of Social Policy, we reflected on how the journal has provided a platform to showcase top-quality research in Social Policy and been a resource to successive generations of academics, practitioners and policy makers. Naturally, Social Policy has changed over the past yearsand so has the journal. One of the reasons for a strong continued presence of Social Policy in the UK is i…
The Bolsonaro Government’s 2019 pension reform in Brazil: A policy discourse analysis
In 2019, the Brazilian Government secured support to pass radical reforms to the state pension system. Drawing on concepts from historical materialist policy analysis and critical discourse analysis, this paper contributes to understanding how the Bolsonaro Government utilized narratives of inter- and intra-class and generational (in)equity to problematize constitutional guarantees of social and economic rights and warrant fiscal austerity and cu…
Political science (17 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (16 works) · Economics (15 works) · Law (15 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Public Administration (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (9 works) · Welfare (9 works)