John Veit–Wilson

Biographic Data

ID6357334
NAMEJohn Veit–Wilson
GIVEN NAMESJohn
FAMILY NAMEVeit–Wilson
SIGNATUREWILSON J V
AFFILIATIONSNewcastle University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS66
WORKS AS AUTHOR12
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1986
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
H-INDEX5

  • Who Sets the Conditions? Conditionality, Reciprocity, Human Rights and Inclusion in Society

    Open AccessJohn Veit-Wilson, John Veit–WilsonARTICLEGlobal Social Policy2009Cited by: 5

  • The idea of poverty

    John Veit–WilsonARTICLEJournal of Poverty and Social…2008

  • No Rights without Remedies

    Open AccessJohn Veit-Wilson, John Veit–WilsonARTICLEEuropean Journal of Social Security2006References: 1

    If EU governments' National Action Plans for Social Inclusion aim to abolish child poverty, they must clarify which of the many types of poverty is targeted and how families are to achieve the right to incomes adequate for human dignity and social participation asserted by the international conventions. The paper argues that necessary conditions for child poverty abolition and social inclusion must include the juridification and justiciability of…

  • Measuring child poverty

    John Veit–WilsonARTICLEJournal of Poverty and Social…2003

  • States of Welfare

    Open AccessJohn Veit–WilsonARTICLESocial Policy and Administration2002Cited by: 3

    This response deals with Atherton’s objections in so far as they are relevant and restates the importance of clarity about the content of the term “welfare state”. It suggests that the term be restricted to states which offer a minimum real level of living to all their citizens, and shows that it is possible in both principle and practice to compress income inequalities to a point where poverty is effectively abolished. The article discusses some…

  • Time and Poverty in Western Welfare States

    Neil Fligstein, Lutz Leisering et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2001

  • States of Welfare

    Open AccessJohn Veit‐Wilson, John Veit–WilsonARTICLESocial Policy and Administration2000Cited by: 8

  • The Tax Threshold

    John Veit–Wilson, J VEIT-WILSONARTICLETwentieth Century British History1999Cited by: 1

    In the absence of an independent poverty standard, postwar British governments have tended to use current, politically determined social security scales (from Unemployment Assistance in the 1930s to Income Support today) as their definition of minimally adequate income levels, commonly known as an ‘official poverty line’. A basic principle of taxation since the days of Adam Smith, however, has been that incomes below the minimum income required f…

  • Muddle or Mendacity? The Beveridge Committee and the Poverty Line

    Open AccessJohn H Veit-Wilson, John Veit–WilsonARTICLEJournal of Social Policy1992Cited by: 7References: 9

    The Beveridge Committee of 1942 is often assumed to have based its proposals for social security scales on a poverty line at the 'human needs' or social participation level. This is because of its 'principle of adequacy of benefit in amount and time'. Using the Committee's working papers, this paper describes the discussions of the committee about the ideas of need and measures of poverty to be used. The evidence shows that the Committee knew ver…

  • Consensual Approaches to Poverty Lines and Social Security

    Open AccessJ H Veit-Wilson, John Veit–WilsonARTICLEJournal of Social Policy1987Cited by: 22References: 15

    The principal problematic issue in all poverty measures is the source and status of the standards of needs and deprivation. Rejection of minimum subsistence or quasi-absolute approaches to defining poverty, and acceptance of the social relativism of poverty, logically demand that the indicators of deprivation equally be derived from the society in question and not be prescribed for it by 'experts'. The paper reviews the policy implications of the…

  • Paradigms of Poverty

    Open AccessJohn Veit-Wilson, John Veit–WilsonARTICLEJournal of Social Policy1986

    To answer first the comment by Hugh McLachlan, I confess that my attempt to condense his densely argued paper into one sentence

  • Paradigms of Poverty

    Open AccessJ H Veit-Wilson, John Veit–WilsonARTICLEJournal of Social Policy1986Cited by: 20References: 9

    Rowntree is widely regarded as having originated in 1901 the ‘scientific’ definition of poverty as the minimum income level required for physical subsistence. He is quoted as defining ‘secondary poverty’ above this income level as mismanagement. Critics of this approach confuse Rowntree's use of concepts with his discussion of causes, and they overlook Rowntree's own explanation that his concept of poverty was relativistic life-style, and that hi…