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Promoting Welfare?
Penny M. Leonard
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Description for Promoting Welfare?
paperback. As citizens we need information to exercise our social rights and responsibilities. However, information provision about welfare services is patchy and the 'information poor' are often disadvantaged in access to those services. This book explores how government information policies directly influence which service users claim their entitlements. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: JKS; JPQB; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 273.
This book explores the role of government in encouraging or deterring the claiming of welfare entitlements. It: compares the rhetoric of claimants' rights with the realities of information provision; uses the example of the increasingly complex social security system to consider the citizenship status of claimants; focuses on government policies rather than on psychological, attitudinal or deprivational explanations for levels of take-up; uses historical and contemporary evidence, including interviews with policy makers, to explore information policy. Promoting welfare? is aimed at all those who are concerned about poverty, social justice and citizenship including students and ... Read more
This book explores the role of government in encouraging or deterring the claiming of welfare entitlements. It: compares the rhetoric of claimants' rights with the realities of information provision; uses the example of the increasingly complex social security system to consider the citizenship status of claimants; focuses on government policies rather than on psychological, attitudinal or deprivational explanations for levels of take-up; uses historical and contemporary evidence, including interviews with policy makers, to explore information policy. Promoting welfare? is aimed at all those who are concerned about poverty, social justice and citizenship including students and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861344878
SKU
V9781861344878
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99-1
About Penny M. Leonard
Dr Penny Leonard is a independent social researcher. She was formerly employed as the manager of a citizens' advice bureau and as a social worker.
Reviews for Promoting Welfare?
"... Leonard presents compelling evidence that governments self-consciously use information as a tool in the service of political objectives ... a convincing narrative of government's failure to live up to its information obligations." Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory "An important book. Leonard has produced a volume that will benefit all those, students and service users alike, concerned with ... Read more