Privatisation and Welfare Services
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11228956 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter O’connor (0000-0003-4245-3473, corresponding author), Peter O'Connor |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 27-39 |
| Publication date | 1990-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Journal of Social Issues (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0157-6321 • E-ISSN: 1839-4655 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1990.tb00874.x |
| OpenAlex | W2274826036 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
This paper traces some of the persistent criticisms which have attended welfare provision in Australia and many other western industrialised nations over the past twenty years. Clearly, the most concerted attacks on the welfare system have come from the radical Right, who are becoming more adept at manipulating and hijacking the language and sentiments of supporters of welfare. The paper argues that the welfare crisis debate, of which privatisation has become an important component, has deceptively seized upon a particular, and simplistic, interpretation of economics and the economy of welfare, as a means of unfurling a broader ideological position on social and economic policy. The rhetoric of the ‘rational’ Right can have no legitimate place in the restructuring and improvement of welfare provision in Australia. It is essential to the continued development of the welfare system, that the ‘backlash’ proposals of the Right be comprehensively rejected, and exposed for their destructive capacity. Efforts to reverse the ideological shift created by the ‘New Right’, need to consciously reclaim and reinstate concepts of social justice and equity on the social policy agenda
Economic Justice · Economics · Equity (law · Ideology · Interpretation (philosophy · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Position (finance · Restructuring · Rhetoric · Social Welfare · Welfare · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Finance
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |