Working for Benefits
Rational Choice and the Rise of Work—Welfare Programmes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6345975 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Desmond S King (0000-0002-3296-0407, St John's College, Oxford), Desmond King (0000-0002-8763-2179, St. John's College), Hugh Ward (University of Essex) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 479-495 |
| Publication date | 1992-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3217 • E-ISSN: 1467-9248 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9248.1992.tb00704.x |
| OpenAlex | W1972561285 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 4 |
This paper develops a rational-choice explanation for the adoption of deterrent work–welfare programmes by recent governments in Britain and the US. Such programmes require the recipients of welfare or unemployment benefits to participate in a training programme or work activity in exchange for receiving their benefits and reflect a New Right (in contrast to a social democratic) conception of social citizenship. Governments design such policies to generate a partial separating equilibrium under which some claimants identified by the state as undeserving are discouraged from seeking benefits. These programmes are intended to overcome problems of free-riding and false claiming viewed, by the New Right, as inherent in state-administered benefit systems
Citizenship · Democracy · Economic growth · Economics · Labour economics · Market economy · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Social Welfare · State (computer science · Unemployment · Welfare · Welfare state · Work (physics · Engineering · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Welfare conditionality in OECD countries and in Latin America
The politics of sanctioning the poor through welfare conditionality
Rediscovering Citizenship
Government Legitimacy and the Labour Market
The paternalist politics of punitive and enabling workfare
Monitoring Unemployment Benefits in Comparative Perspective
The political determinants of benefit work conditionality
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2026 (33) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |