The Impacts of Welfare Conditionality
Sanctions Support and Behaviour Change
Peter Dwyer author Lisa Scullion author Katy Jones author Jenny McNeill author Alasdair BR Stewart author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bristol University Press
Published:22nd Nov '22
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Should a citizen’s right to social welfare be contingent on their personal behaviour? Welfare conditionality, linking citizens’ eligibility for social benefits and services to prescribed compulsory responsibilities or behaviours, has become a key component of welfare reform in many nations. This book uses qualitative longitudinal data, from repeat interviews with people subject to compulsion and sanction in their everyday lives, to analyse the effectiveness and ethicality of welfare conditionality in promoting and sustaining behaviour change in the UK. Given the negative outcomes that welfare conditionality routinely triggers, this book calls for the abandonment of these sanctions and reiterates the importance of genuinely supportive policies that promote social security and wider equality.
ISBN: 9781447343738
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218 pages