Tony Fitzpatrick
Biographic Data
| ID | 253289 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tony Fitzpatrick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tony |
| FAMILY NAME | Fitzpatrick |
| SIGNATURE | FITZPATRICK T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3197-8389 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 105 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Challenges for social policy
The Sixth Giant? Environmental Policy and the Labour Government, 1945-51
The connections between social and environmental policies have a longer and more fertile history than is often appreciated. Ignoring that history is not just unfortunate in its own terms but may mean that we deprive ourselves of resources that could be useful in the future. Unfortunately, social policy histories avoid discussion of the natural environment, just as environmental histories avoid discussion of welfare services. This article therefor…
Climate Change and Poverty
Climate Change and Poverty
Climate Change and Poverty offers a timely new perspective on the 'ecosocial' understanding of the causes, symptoms and solutions to poverty, and applies this to recent developments across a number of areas, including fuel poverty, food poverty, housing, transport and air pollution. This book is available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence
International Encyclopedia of Social Policy
Policy & Politics 40th anniversary
Challenges for social policy
Welfare Theory
"This fully updated new edition of a trusted text retains the accessibility and engaging style of its predecessor. With analysis of the key concepts and theories of welfare, this book examines the potential impact of globalization and the financial crisis, making it core reading for all those studying welfare and the welfare state"
Understanding the environment and social policy
Bringing together leading experts, this textbook explores the key social, political, economic and moral challenges that environmental problems pose for social policy in a global context. Combining theory and practice with an interdisciplinary approach, the book reviews the current strategies and policies and provides a critique of proposed future developments in the field. Understanding the environment and social policy guides the reader through …
Response 2
Paul Spicker's article has provided a thought-provoking contribution to which I am broadly sympathetic. I have two principal concerns, however. Firstly, it fails to contextualise itself vis-à-vis some key debates. Secondly, therefore, it neglects to ask some crucial philosophical and methodological questions. As such, researchers should pause before embracing a phronetic social policy. Below, I specify the nature of my concerns, paying particular…
Social paternalism and basic income
This article offers a philosophical discussion of paternalism. First, it establishes the relevance to basic income of the concept of ‘paternalism’. Second, it provides an overview and critique of the main philosophical schools of paternalism. Third, it argues in favour of a version of soft/weak paternalism, which is here termed ‘social paternalism’. Fourth, it reviews the main positions that advocates of various paternalisms might take towards ba…
Changing times
Basic Income, Post-Productivism and Liberalism
This article discusses Basic Income (BI) in the context of post-productivism. It defines post-productivism as an ethic of reproductive value and argues that BI is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for the realisation of such value. However, against those who would abandon or else severely dilute liberal justifications for BI, it defends a liberal framework, albeit one that is broadly consistent with recent republican contributions to the…
Deliberative Democracy, Critical Rationality and Social Memory
From Contracts to Capabilities and Back Again
The Assets Agenda
The Citizen's Stake
New Theories of Welfare
In this sequel to the acclaimed Welfare Theory (Palgrave, 2001), Tony Fitzpatrick examines the most recent, influential and cutting edge ideas influencing policy studies today. Clearly structured to enable students to make theoretical connections between apparently diverse areas, it provides an invaluable synthesis of the most important theoretical innovations in the discipline in recent years. Comprehensive, engaging and authoritative, New Theor…
The fourth attempt to construct a politics of welfare obligations
English Since the 1980s there have been three influential attempts to ground citizenship on the principles of duty, obligation and responsibility: conservative, communitarian and Third Way. Each of these is reviewed in the article. The principal task of this article, however, is to examine the emergence of a fourth attempt, which, by relating duty to equality through the principle of reciprocity, represents a synthesis of traditional social democ…
A Post-Productivist Future for Social Democracy
The purpose of this article is to contrast productivism with post-productivism and raise a question mark over the extent to which social democrats should support the former rather than the latter. It offers a definition of post-productivism, explaining this in terms of the ‘reproductive value’ of care and sustainability. The paper then sketches the limits to social democracy and indicates why post-productivist solutions might therefore be appropr…
Social Policy and Time
Time is crucial to the implementation, operation and effectiveness of social policies, yet the subject has often treated the meaning of time as theoretically unproblematic. It focuses more upon what policies do and less upon the contexts within which the practices and assumptions of social actors are embedded. The article offers a more sophisticated theoretical account of time upon which is based an exploration of the main temporal features of we…
Time, social justice and UK welfare reform
While analyses of time have never strayed too far away from those of social justice, and vice versa, this article's premise is that they have so far failed to converge as directly and coherently as they might. The aim of this article is to facilitate a greater degree of convergence by working within a framework of liberal equality and establishing similarities in the work of the two theorists who have gone furthest in bringing the various debates…
After the New Social Democracy
Social democracy has made a political comeback in recent years, especially under the influence of the ‘Third Way’. Not everyone is convinced, however, that ‘Third Way’ social democracy is the best means of reviving the Left's project. This book considers this dissent and offers an alternative approach. Bringing together a range of social and political theories, it engages with some contemporary debates regarding the present direction and future o…
Introduction
Novi prioriteti za socijalnu politiku i kriminologiju
Socijalna politika i kriminologija dugo su se bavili kriminalizacijom i regulacijom siromasnih. Teza ovoga rada je da su se posljednjih godina pojavili novi oblici kriminalizacije i regulacije koje su razliciti autori iz obje discipline poceli teoretizirati. Ovim se radom želi doprinijeti rastucoj literaturi o tome približavanjem razlicitih tema koje zaslužuju da budu opsirno raspravljene zajedno. Te su teme; prvo, globalizacija; drugo, promjenlj…
Social Policy and Time
Time is crucial to the implementation, operation and effectiveness of social policies, yet the subject has often treated the meaning of time as theoretically unproblematic. It focuses more upon what policies do and less upon the contexts within which the practices and assumptions of social actors are embedded. The article offers a more sophisticated theoretical account of time upon which is based an exploration of the main temporal features of we…
Freedom and Security
WHOSE SECURITY? The Radical Right: Universal Means-Testing Welfare Collectivism: Beyond Selective Insurance Socialism and Social Dividend Feminism and Basic Income Ecologism and Basic Income Afterword Endnotes Bibliography Index
The fourth attempt to construct a politics of welfare obligations
English Since the 1980s there have been three influential attempts to ground citizenship on the principles of duty, obligation and responsibility: conservative, communitarian and Third Way. Each of these is reviewed in the article. The principal task of this article, however, is to examine the emergence of a fourth attempt, which, by relating duty to equality through the principle of reciprocity, represents a synthesis of traditional social democ…
A Post-Productivist Future for Social Democracy
The purpose of this article is to contrast productivism with post-productivism and raise a question mark over the extent to which social democrats should support the former rather than the latter. It offers a definition of post-productivism, explaining this in terms of the ‘reproductive value’ of care and sustainability. The paper then sketches the limits to social democracy and indicates why post-productivist solutions might therefore be appropr…
The implications of ecological thought for social welfare
Relatively little attention has been given by the discipline of social policy to ecological critiques. Yet if those critiques are even marginally accu rate, in terms of the explanations which they offer and the assessments which they make, then this is a neglect which cannot continue indefi nitely. The aim of this article is to help rectify such neglect. The article begins by reviewing the principal approaches which ecological thought takes to so…
Postmodernism, Welfare and Radical Politics
This article argues that postmodernist theory is something which students of social policy should neither accept uncritically nor dismiss out of hand. Firstly, the article takes issue with the responses made to postmodernist theory by Ramesh Mishra and Peter Taylor-Gooby. Secondly, it argues that the ideas loosely known as 'reflexive modernisation' constitute a more measured and critical response, though such ideas are likely to be of little use …
Critical cyberpolicy
This article suggests that those interested in both welfare theory and welfare policy cannot afford to overlook the emerging interactions between online and offline environments. It explores the main parameters of the debate relating to cyberspace, in particular, and Information and Communication Technologies more generally. It argues that the pervasiveness of free market capitalism means that the negative consequences of the Internet for society…
Time, social justice and UK welfare reform
While analyses of time have never strayed too far away from those of social justice, and vice versa, this article's premise is that they have so far failed to converge as directly and coherently as they might. The aim of this article is to facilitate a greater degree of convergence by working within a framework of liberal equality and establishing similarities in the work of the two theorists who have gone furthest in bringing the various debates…
Introduction
The two paradoxes of welfare democracy
This article has three objectives. First, to apply the debate concerning deliberative or discursive democracy to the subject of social policy in order to renew and update the long‐standing attempt to go beyond the paradigm of welfare‐state capitalism. The ‘crisis of universalism’ is outlined and this is then explained in terms of the traditional welfare state’s ‘democratic deficit’. Second, to suggest that applying these debates reveals two parad…
New Agendas for Social Policy and Criminology
The subjects of social policy and criminology have long been concerned with the criminalization and regulation of the poor. The premise of this paper is that in recent years new forms of criminalization and regulation have emerged that various authors, from both disciplines, have begun to theorize. The paper aims to contribute to this growing literature by bringing together diverse themes that deserve to be extensively discussed in conjunction wi…
Before the Cradle
The new genetics is of undoubted importance to the future of welfare reform, but if this influence is not to be dominated by Right-wing values and prescriptions then some alternative conceptions need to be in place. This article begins by criticising the recent intervention by Charles Murray, insisting that Murray opens the door to a laissez faire eugenics. It then proceeds to outline a theory of regulated eugenics, justifying use of the concept …
Social Policy for Cyborgs
Although the body has become of increasing importance throughout the social sciences, it has been neglected by the discipline of social policy. The aim of this article is to rectify that neglect. It argues that the connections which some have begun to make between social welfare and the body can be strengthened by reference to the figure of the cyborg. The article develops a model that can be used to explain the cyborgization of social identity. …
In Search of a Welfare Democracy
This article contributes to the growing literature concerning the necessity and desirability of democratising the UK welfare state. It takes a theoretical approach by exploring some of the key influences on contemporary debates: risk society, governmentality, the new social democracy and associational welfare. The article suggests that none of these supplies the theoretical foundations of a welfare democracy and that another approach must be foun…
Social paternalism and basic income
This article offers a philosophical discussion of paternalism. First, it establishes the relevance to basic income of the concept of ‘paternalism’. Second, it provides an overview and critique of the main philosophical schools of paternalism. Third, it argues in favour of a version of soft/weak paternalism, which is here termed ‘social paternalism’. Fourth, it reviews the main positions that advocates of various paternalisms might take towards ba…
Changing times
Making Welfare for Future Generations
This article attempts to construct a new temporal framework for social policy. It draws upon a theory of intergenerational justice that has been elaborated by the author elsewhere and uses that theory to elaborate upon the principles of “sustainable justice”. The article addresses some of the diffcult philosophical dilemmas that those principles generate and argues that reconciling the interests of present and future generations of the least well…
From Contracts to Capabilities and Back Again
Towards a Theory of Ecosocial Welfare
Ecosocial welfare is defined as the green equivalent of social democratic or welfare capitalism: an alternative to market capitalism that takes us part of the way towards ecosocialism and which therefore embraces a diversity of ecological positions on the Left. One element of ecosocial welfare is radical reformism, a perspective on social reorganisation which encompasses the pragmatism of the short term and the utopianisms of the long. Local Exch…
Postmodernism, Welfare and Radical Politics
This article argues that postmodernist theory is something which students of social policy should neither accept uncritically nor dismiss out of hand. Firstly, the article takes issue with the responses made to postmodernist theory by Ramesh Mishra and Peter Taylor-Gooby. Secondly, it argues that the ideas loosely known as 'reflexive modernisation' constitute a more measured and critical response, though such ideas are likely to be of little use …
The implications of ecological thought for social welfare
Relatively little attention has been given by the discipline of social policy to ecological critiques. Yet if those critiques are even marginally accu rate, in terms of the explanations which they offer and the assessments which they make, then this is a neglect which cannot continue indefi nitely. The aim of this article is to help rectify such neglect. The article begins by reviewing the principal approaches which ecological thought takes to so…
Social Policy for Cyborgs
Although the body has become of increasing importance throughout the social sciences, it has been neglected by the discipline of social policy. The aim of this article is to rectify that neglect. It argues that the connections which some have begun to make between social welfare and the body can be strengthened by reference to the figure of the cyborg. The article develops a model that can be used to explain the cyborgization of social identity. …
Critical cyberpolicy
This article suggests that those interested in both welfare theory and welfare policy cannot afford to overlook the emerging interactions between online and offline environments. It explores the main parameters of the debate relating to cyberspace, in particular, and Information and Communication Technologies more generally. It argues that the pervasiveness of free market capitalism means that the negative consequences of the Internet for society…
Welfare Theory
Introduction Welfare Equality Liberty Citizenship Key Political Concepts Key Sociological Concepts Welfare Ideologists 'New' Social Divisions Recent Economic Developments Recent Theoretical Developments Concluding Remarks
New Agendas for Social Policy and Criminology
The subjects of social policy and criminology have long been concerned with the criminalization and regulation of the poor. The premise of this paper is that in recent years new forms of criminalization and regulation have emerged that various authors, from both disciplines, have begun to theorize. The paper aims to contribute to this growing literature by bringing together diverse themes that deserve to be extensively discussed in conjunction wi…
Making Welfare for Future Generations
This article attempts to construct a new temporal framework for social policy. It draws upon a theory of intergenerational justice that has been elaborated by the author elsewhere and uses that theory to elaborate upon the principles of “sustainable justice”. The article addresses some of the diffcult philosophical dilemmas that those principles generate and argues that reconciling the interests of present and future generations of the least well…
Towards a Theory of Ecosocial Welfare
Ecosocial welfare is defined as the green equivalent of social democratic or welfare capitalism: an alternative to market capitalism that takes us part of the way towards ecosocialism and which therefore embraces a diversity of ecological positions on the Left. One element of ecosocial welfare is radical reformism, a perspective on social reorganisation which encompasses the pragmatism of the short term and the utopianisms of the long. Local Exch…
Freedom and Security
WHOSE SECURITY? The Radical Right: Universal Means-Testing Welfare Collectivism: Beyond Selective Insurance Socialism and Social Dividend Feminism and Basic Income Ecologism and Basic Income Afterword Endnotes Bibliography Index
Before the Cradle
The new genetics is of undoubted importance to the future of welfare reform, but if this influence is not to be dominated by Right-wing values and prescriptions then some alternative conceptions need to be in place. This article begins by criticising the recent intervention by Charles Murray, insisting that Murray opens the door to a laissez faire eugenics. It then proceeds to outline a theory of regulated eugenics, justifying use of the concept …
Critical Theory, Information Society and Surveillance Technologies
This article offers an account of information and communication technologies (ICTs) that draws upon the tradition of critical theory, arguing that an application of the latter to the former can be categorized as a theory of 'cyber criticalism'. Its aim is not to provide an exhaustive theoretical analysis or any kind of literature review, but to suggest that such a theorization is possible because cyber criticalism (1) offers an account of social …
In Search of a Welfare Democracy
This article contributes to the growing literature concerning the necessity and desirability of democratising the UK welfare state. It takes a theoretical approach by exploring some of the key influences on contemporary debates: risk society, governmentality, the new social democracy and associational welfare. The article suggests that none of these supplies the theoretical foundations of a welfare democracy and that another approach must be foun…
The two paradoxes of welfare democracy
This article has three objectives. First, to apply the debate concerning deliberative or discursive democracy to the subject of social policy in order to renew and update the long‐standing attempt to go beyond the paradigm of welfare‐state capitalism. The ‘crisis of universalism’ is outlined and this is then explained in terms of the traditional welfare state’s ‘democratic deficit’. Second, to suggest that applying these debates reveals two parad…
After the New Social Democracy
Social democracy has made a political comeback in recent years, especially under the influence of the ‘Third Way’. Not everyone is convinced, however, that ‘Third Way’ social democracy is the best means of reviving the Left's project. This book considers this dissent and offers an alternative approach. Bringing together a range of social and political theories, it engages with some contemporary debates regarding the present direction and future o…
Introduction
Novi prioriteti za socijalnu politiku i kriminologiju
Socijalna politika i kriminologija dugo su se bavili kriminalizacijom i regulacijom siromasnih. Teza ovoga rada je da su se posljednjih godina pojavili novi oblici kriminalizacije i regulacije koje su razliciti autori iz obje discipline poceli teoretizirati. Ovim se radom želi doprinijeti rastucoj literaturi o tome približavanjem razlicitih tema koje zaslužuju da budu opsirno raspravljene zajedno. Te su teme; prvo, globalizacija; drugo, promjenlj…
A Post-Productivist Future for Social Democracy
The purpose of this article is to contrast productivism with post-productivism and raise a question mark over the extent to which social democrats should support the former rather than the latter. It offers a definition of post-productivism, explaining this in terms of the ‘reproductive value’ of care and sustainability. The paper then sketches the limits to social democracy and indicates why post-productivist solutions might therefore be appropr…
Social Policy and Time
Time is crucial to the implementation, operation and effectiveness of social policies, yet the subject has often treated the meaning of time as theoretically unproblematic. It focuses more upon what policies do and less upon the contexts within which the practices and assumptions of social actors are embedded. The article offers a more sophisticated theoretical account of time upon which is based an exploration of the main temporal features of we…
Time, social justice and UK welfare reform
While analyses of time have never strayed too far away from those of social justice, and vice versa, this article's premise is that they have so far failed to converge as directly and coherently as they might. The aim of this article is to facilitate a greater degree of convergence by working within a framework of liberal equality and establishing similarities in the work of the two theorists who have gone furthest in bringing the various debates…
New Theories of Welfare
In this sequel to the acclaimed Welfare Theory (Palgrave, 2001), Tony Fitzpatrick examines the most recent, influential and cutting edge ideas influencing policy studies today. Clearly structured to enable students to make theoretical connections between apparently diverse areas, it provides an invaluable synthesis of the most important theoretical innovations in the discipline in recent years. Comprehensive, engaging and authoritative, New Theor…
The fourth attempt to construct a politics of welfare obligations
English Since the 1980s there have been three influential attempts to ground citizenship on the principles of duty, obligation and responsibility: conservative, communitarian and Third Way. Each of these is reviewed in the article. The principal task of this article, however, is to examine the emergence of a fourth attempt, which, by relating duty to equality through the principle of reciprocity, represents a synthesis of traditional social democ…
The Citizen's Stake
From Contracts to Capabilities and Back Again
The Assets Agenda
Deliberative Democracy, Critical Rationality and Social Memory
Political science (36 works) · Law (28 works) · Sociology (28 works) · Economics (20 works) · Politics (18 works) · Law (17 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (16 works) · Positive economics (13 works) · Law and economics (12 works) · Welfare (12 works)