Where Next for the UK Welfare State?
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23211525 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Taylor-Gooby (0000-0002-4825-1250), Benjamin Leruth (0000-0002-1999-918X), Heejung Chung (0000-0002-6422-6119) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Publication date | 2017-08-24 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | After Austerity (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780198790266.003.0003 |
| OpenAlex | W2747476770 |
| ISBN | 9780198790266 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The liberal-leaning UK welfare state is contracting due to a sharp austerity programme. It is failing to address the challenges of population ageing and globalized competition. Increasingly provision is divided between maintained benefits for pensioners (rising in real terms) and those for working age people (harshly cut back). This gap has been exploited by the Conservative Party for political advantage, leading to a deepening of social divisions. At the same time concerns about immigration are leading to popular demands for a protectionist stance by government. In the 2016 referendum, these culminated in a vote to leave the EU. Brexit is currently being implemented, with damaging consequences for the UK economy, possibly triggering further EU fragmentation.
Austerity · Brexit · Coalition government · Competition (biology) · Economic policy · Economics · European union · Government (linguistics) · Immigration · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Population ageing · Protectionism · Referendum · Sociology · State (computer science) · Welfare · Welfare state · Working population · Employment and Welfare Studies · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |