Alan Deacon
Biographic Data
| ID | 259527 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Deacon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Deacon |
| SIGNATURE | DEACON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 167 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A new welfare settlement? The Coalition government and welfare-to-work
This chapter tries to address three questions: First, what are the central features of the welfare-to-work programmes that were developed by New Labour and will now be expanded and intensified by the Coalition government? Second, what explains the apparent consensus around these programmes? Third, what impacts are they likely to have upon different groups of claimants? There seems to be a marked reliance by the Coalition on efforts to reduce welf…
Civic Labour or Doulia? Care, Reciprocity and Welfare
This article discusses the grounds on which those who provide informal social care for dependent adults and children can be held to warrant public support, and what obligations they should accept in return. It outlines two interpretations of the rights and responsibilities of such care workers: Stuart White's notion of care as civic labour and Eva Feder Kittay's principle of doulia. It shows that these interpretations reflect different understand…
Social security: History and politics from the New Deal to the privatization debate
Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage by Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas and When Work is not Enough: State and Federal Policies to Support Needy Workers by Robert Stoker a…
Introduction: Themed Section on Care, Values and the Future of Welfare
The papers in the themed section emerge from the work of the ESRC Research Group on Care, Values and the Future of Welfare (CAVA), based at the University of Leeds. CAVA was funded from 1999 to undertake a five-year programme of research into changes in parenting and partnering in Britain and their implications for future social policies. At the heart of CAVA's research is an investigation into the values that people attach to their parenting and…
Different Interpretations of Agency within Welfare Debates
J. Le Grand (2003), Motivation, Agency, and Public Policy: Of Knights and Knaves, Pawns and Queens , Oxford University Press, Oxford. R. Lister (2004), Poverty , Polity Books, Cambridge. L. Mead (2004), Government Matters: Welfare Reform in Wisconsin , Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford
Justifying conditionality: The case of anti‐social tenants
The measures that New Labour have introduced to punish and prevent anti‐social behaviour need to be discussed in the context of the broader debate about conditionality in welfare. This paper outlines briefly three arguments that have been put forward to justify conditionality in welfare, the contractualist, the paternalist and the mutualist justifications. It then considers the force of these arguments in respect of New Labour's approach to anti‐…
Ending Consensus as We Began to Know It’: Welfare Reform and the Republicans after 2002
R. Blank and R. Haskins (eds) (2001), The New World of Welfare , Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC. K. Weaver (2001), Ending Welfare as We Know It , Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC
Perspectives on Welfare
Levelling the playing field, activating the players: New Labour and ‘the cycle of disadvantage
English New Labour’s ‘third way’ on welfare has been much debated. It is argued here that there is substance to the claim that third way thinking integrates elements of hitherto conflicting perspectives.This is illustrated by New Labour’s interpretation of new evidence on the extent of intergenerational continuities in disadvantage. New Labour’s understanding of the cycle of disadvantage draws on five conflicting explanations of such continuities…
Echoes of Sir Keith? New Labour and the cycle of disadvantage
There are striking commonalities between New Labour’s approach to the cycle of disadvantage and the analysis and prescriptions put forward by Sir Keith Joseph in 1972. This is not to suggest that New Labour ministers have been influenced directly by this or any other of Sir Keith’s speeches. It is the case, however, that New Labour has come to occupy similar ground to Sir Keith, albeit by a somewhat different route
Learning from the US? The influence of American ideas upon ‘new labour’ thinking on welfare reform
English This article assesses how far New Labour thinking about welfare reform has been influenced by ideas and developments in the United States. Having entered office declaring its determination to ‘think the unthinkable’, the Blair administration has subsequently been in earnest pursuit of the workable. It has looked to the US for ideas about wage supplementation and- especially- welfare to work programmes. More broadly, the language in which …
Agency, Modernity and Social Policy
The focus of this article is upon the recent revival of interest in human agency within both sociological and social policy debates. There is a striking resonance between the increasing attention paid to individual behaviour within normative debates about welfare and the concern of some sociologists with the moral and ethical dilemmas that confront the individual in contemporary society. These two sets of arguments are not compatible. Indeed the …
The Green Paper on Welfare Reform: A Case for Enlightened Self‐Interest
Whose choice, hostels or homes? Policies for single homeless people
A marked increase in the prevalence of homelessness among single people has coincided with a renewed debate concerning the nature of the problem and the most appropriate policy response. The paper provides a brief discussion of these developments before presenting the key findings of a study of the closure of Alvaston Resettlement Unit, near Derby. These findings relate primarily to white men, but the paper considers what they indicate about the …
Richard Titmuss: 20 Years On
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An End to the Means Test? Social Security and the Attlee Government
The post-war Labour Government has often been criticized for its failure to remove the means test from social security. Labour ministers, however, had no reason to anticipate the problems which were later to arise in the administration of means tested social assistance. The experience of the supplementary pension scheme during the war had indicated that there would be few problems of take-up or stigma if old people were required to claim assistan…
The Scrounging Controversy: Public Attitudes Towards the Unemployed in Contemporary Britain
Local Democracy and Central Policy: The Issue of Pauper Votes in the 1920s
It was axiomatic throughout the greater part of the nineteenth century that anyone who received public assistance should suffer a reciprocal loss of civil rights. The fundamental principle of the New Poor Law that the condition of the pauper should remain ‘less eligible’ than that of the poorest independent labourer obviously involved exclusion from the franchise. Indeed, it had long been the common law of Parliament that any person dependent for…
The Creation of the Unemployment Assistance Board
The creation of the Unemployment Assistance Board in 1934 was an event of constitutional as well as political significance. The transfer of responsibility for the administration of unemployment assistance to a Board whose members were neither drawn from, nor directly answerable to Parliament raised important issues of ministerial responsibility and Parliamentary control. Consequently much of the literature upon the early operation of the Board ha…
Agency, Modernity and Social Policy
The focus of this article is upon the recent revival of interest in human agency within both sociological and social policy debates. There is a striking resonance between the increasing attention paid to individual behaviour within normative debates about welfare and the concern of some sociologists with the moral and ethical dilemmas that confront the individual in contemporary society. These two sets of arguments are not compatible. Indeed the …
Learning from the US? The influence of American ideas upon ‘new labour’ thinking on welfare reform
English This article assesses how far New Labour thinking about welfare reform has been influenced by ideas and developments in the United States. Having entered office declaring its determination to ‘think the unthinkable’, the Blair administration has subsequently been in earnest pursuit of the workable. It has looked to the US for ideas about wage supplementation and- especially- welfare to work programmes. More broadly, the language in which …
Justifying conditionality: The case of anti‐social tenants
The measures that New Labour have introduced to punish and prevent anti‐social behaviour need to be discussed in the context of the broader debate about conditionality in welfare. This paper outlines briefly three arguments that have been put forward to justify conditionality in welfare, the contractualist, the paternalist and the mutualist justifications. It then considers the force of these arguments in respect of New Labour's approach to anti‐…
Levelling the playing field, activating the players: New Labour and ‘the cycle of disadvantage
English New Labour’s ‘third way’ on welfare has been much debated. It is argued here that there is substance to the claim that third way thinking integrates elements of hitherto conflicting perspectives.This is illustrated by New Labour’s interpretation of new evidence on the extent of intergenerational continuities in disadvantage. New Labour’s understanding of the cycle of disadvantage draws on five conflicting explanations of such continuities…
Perspectives on Welfare
Different Interpretations of Agency within Welfare Debates
J. Le Grand (2003), Motivation, Agency, and Public Policy: Of Knights and Knaves, Pawns and Queens , Oxford University Press, Oxford. R. Lister (2004), Poverty , Polity Books, Cambridge. L. Mead (2004), Government Matters: Welfare Reform in Wisconsin , Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford
Richard Titmuss: 20 Years On
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Creation of the Unemployment Assistance Board
The creation of the Unemployment Assistance Board in 1934 was an event of constitutional as well as political significance. The transfer of responsibility for the administration of unemployment assistance to a Board whose members were neither drawn from, nor directly answerable to Parliament raised important issues of ministerial responsibility and Parliamentary control. Consequently much of the literature upon the early operation of the Board ha…
The Green Paper on Welfare Reform: A Case for Enlightened Self‐Interest
An End to the Means Test? Social Security and the Attlee Government
The post-war Labour Government has often been criticized for its failure to remove the means test from social security. Labour ministers, however, had no reason to anticipate the problems which were later to arise in the administration of means tested social assistance. The experience of the supplementary pension scheme during the war had indicated that there would be few problems of take-up or stigma if old people were required to claim assistan…
The Scrounging Controversy: Public Attitudes Towards the Unemployed in Contemporary Britain
Introduction: Themed Section on Care, Values and the Future of Welfare
The papers in the themed section emerge from the work of the ESRC Research Group on Care, Values and the Future of Welfare (CAVA), based at the University of Leeds. CAVA was funded from 1999 to undertake a five-year programme of research into changes in parenting and partnering in Britain and their implications for future social policies. At the heart of CAVA's research is an investigation into the values that people attach to their parenting and…
Whose choice, hostels or homes? Policies for single homeless people
A marked increase in the prevalence of homelessness among single people has coincided with a renewed debate concerning the nature of the problem and the most appropriate policy response. The paper provides a brief discussion of these developments before presenting the key findings of a study of the closure of Alvaston Resettlement Unit, near Derby. These findings relate primarily to white men, but the paper considers what they indicate about the …
Local Democracy and Central Policy: The Issue of Pauper Votes in the 1920s
It was axiomatic throughout the greater part of the nineteenth century that anyone who received public assistance should suffer a reciprocal loss of civil rights. The fundamental principle of the New Poor Law that the condition of the pauper should remain ‘less eligible’ than that of the poorest independent labourer obviously involved exclusion from the franchise. Indeed, it had long been the common law of Parliament that any person dependent for…
Civic Labour or Doulia? Care, Reciprocity and Welfare
This article discusses the grounds on which those who provide informal social care for dependent adults and children can be held to warrant public support, and what obligations they should accept in return. It outlines two interpretations of the rights and responsibilities of such care workers: Stuart White's notion of care as civic labour and Eva Feder Kittay's principle of doulia. It shows that these interpretations reflect different understand…
Social security: History and politics from the New Deal to the privatization debate
Ending Consensus as We Began to Know It’: Welfare Reform and the Republicans after 2002
R. Blank and R. Haskins (eds) (2001), The New World of Welfare , Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC. K. Weaver (2001), Ending Welfare as We Know It , Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC
The Creation of the Unemployment Assistance Board
The creation of the Unemployment Assistance Board in 1934 was an event of constitutional as well as political significance. The transfer of responsibility for the administration of unemployment assistance to a Board whose members were neither drawn from, nor directly answerable to Parliament raised important issues of ministerial responsibility and Parliamentary control. Consequently much of the literature upon the early operation of the Board ha…
Local Democracy and Central Policy: The Issue of Pauper Votes in the 1920s
It was axiomatic throughout the greater part of the nineteenth century that anyone who received public assistance should suffer a reciprocal loss of civil rights. The fundamental principle of the New Poor Law that the condition of the pauper should remain ‘less eligible’ than that of the poorest independent labourer obviously involved exclusion from the franchise. Indeed, it had long been the common law of Parliament that any person dependent for…
The Scrounging Controversy: Public Attitudes Towards the Unemployed in Contemporary Britain
An End to the Means Test? Social Security and the Attlee Government
The post-war Labour Government has often been criticized for its failure to remove the means test from social security. Labour ministers, however, had no reason to anticipate the problems which were later to arise in the administration of means tested social assistance. The experience of the supplementary pension scheme during the war had indicated that there would be few problems of take-up or stigma if old people were required to claim assistan…
Richard Titmuss: 20 Years On
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Whose choice, hostels or homes? Policies for single homeless people
A marked increase in the prevalence of homelessness among single people has coincided with a renewed debate concerning the nature of the problem and the most appropriate policy response. The paper provides a brief discussion of these developments before presenting the key findings of a study of the closure of Alvaston Resettlement Unit, near Derby. These findings relate primarily to white men, but the paper considers what they indicate about the …
The Green Paper on Welfare Reform: A Case for Enlightened Self‐Interest
Agency, Modernity and Social Policy
The focus of this article is upon the recent revival of interest in human agency within both sociological and social policy debates. There is a striking resonance between the increasing attention paid to individual behaviour within normative debates about welfare and the concern of some sociologists with the moral and ethical dilemmas that confront the individual in contemporary society. These two sets of arguments are not compatible. Indeed the …
Learning from the US? The influence of American ideas upon ‘new labour’ thinking on welfare reform
English This article assesses how far New Labour thinking about welfare reform has been influenced by ideas and developments in the United States. Having entered office declaring its determination to ‘think the unthinkable’, the Blair administration has subsequently been in earnest pursuit of the workable. It has looked to the US for ideas about wage supplementation and- especially- welfare to work programmes. More broadly, the language in which …
Echoes of Sir Keith? New Labour and the cycle of disadvantage
There are striking commonalities between New Labour’s approach to the cycle of disadvantage and the analysis and prescriptions put forward by Sir Keith Joseph in 1972. This is not to suggest that New Labour ministers have been influenced directly by this or any other of Sir Keith’s speeches. It is the case, however, that New Labour has come to occupy similar ground to Sir Keith, albeit by a somewhat different route
Ending Consensus as We Began to Know It’: Welfare Reform and the Republicans after 2002
R. Blank and R. Haskins (eds) (2001), The New World of Welfare , Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC. K. Weaver (2001), Ending Welfare as We Know It , Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC
Perspectives on Welfare
Levelling the playing field, activating the players: New Labour and ‘the cycle of disadvantage
English New Labour’s ‘third way’ on welfare has been much debated. It is argued here that there is substance to the claim that third way thinking integrates elements of hitherto conflicting perspectives.This is illustrated by New Labour’s interpretation of new evidence on the extent of intergenerational continuities in disadvantage. New Labour’s understanding of the cycle of disadvantage draws on five conflicting explanations of such continuities…
Introduction: Themed Section on Care, Values and the Future of Welfare
The papers in the themed section emerge from the work of the ESRC Research Group on Care, Values and the Future of Welfare (CAVA), based at the University of Leeds. CAVA was funded from 1999 to undertake a five-year programme of research into changes in parenting and partnering in Britain and their implications for future social policies. At the heart of CAVA's research is an investigation into the values that people attach to their parenting and…
Different Interpretations of Agency within Welfare Debates
J. Le Grand (2003), Motivation, Agency, and Public Policy: Of Knights and Knaves, Pawns and Queens , Oxford University Press, Oxford. R. Lister (2004), Poverty , Polity Books, Cambridge. L. Mead (2004), Government Matters: Welfare Reform in Wisconsin , Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford
Justifying conditionality: The case of anti‐social tenants
The measures that New Labour have introduced to punish and prevent anti‐social behaviour need to be discussed in the context of the broader debate about conditionality in welfare. This paper outlines briefly three arguments that have been put forward to justify conditionality in welfare, the contractualist, the paternalist and the mutualist justifications. It then considers the force of these arguments in respect of New Labour's approach to anti‐…
Social security: History and politics from the New Deal to the privatization debate
Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage by Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas and When Work is not Enough: State and Federal Policies to Support Needy Workers by Robert Stoker a…
Civic Labour or Doulia? Care, Reciprocity and Welfare
This article discusses the grounds on which those who provide informal social care for dependent adults and children can be held to warrant public support, and what obligations they should accept in return. It outlines two interpretations of the rights and responsibilities of such care workers: Stuart White's notion of care as civic labour and Eva Feder Kittay's principle of doulia. It shows that these interpretations reflect different understand…
A new welfare settlement? The Coalition government and welfare-to-work
This chapter tries to address three questions: First, what are the central features of the welfare-to-work programmes that were developed by New Labour and will now be expanded and intensified by the Coalition government? Second, what explains the apparent consensus around these programmes? Third, what impacts are they likely to have upon different groups of claimants? There seems to be a marked reliance by the Coalition on efforts to reduce welf…
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