The Fourth Attempt to Construct a Politics of Welfare Obligations

Since the 1980s there have been three main attempts to ground citizenship upon the principles of duty, obligation and responsibility: conservative, communitarian and Third Way. Each of these are reviewed below. The principal task of this article, though, is to examine the emergence of a fourth atte...

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Main Author: Fitzpatrick, Tony
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Published: Policy Press 2005
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description Since the 1980s there have been three main attempts to ground citizenship upon the principles of duty, obligation and responsibility: conservative, communitarian and Third Way. Each of these are reviewed below. The principal task of this article, though, is to examine the emergence of a fourth attempt which, by relating duty to equality through the principle of reciprocity, represents a synthesis of traditional social democracy with the new politics of obligation. Our focus will be upon The Civic Minimum by Stuart White since this is arguably the most cogent expression of duty-based egalitarianism to have emerged in recent years. Key words: citizenship, equality, reciprocity, Basic Income
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spelling nottingham-7092020-05-04T20:30:38Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/709/ The Fourth Attempt to Construct a Politics of Welfare Obligations Fitzpatrick, Tony Since the 1980s there have been three main attempts to ground citizenship upon the principles of duty, obligation and responsibility: conservative, communitarian and Third Way. Each of these are reviewed below. The principal task of this article, though, is to examine the emergence of a fourth attempt which, by relating duty to equality through the principle of reciprocity, represents a synthesis of traditional social democracy with the new politics of obligation. Our focus will be upon The Civic Minimum by Stuart White since this is arguably the most cogent expression of duty-based egalitarianism to have emerged in recent years. Key words: citizenship, equality, reciprocity, Basic Income Policy Press 2005-01 Article PeerReviewed Fitzpatrick, Tony (2005) The Fourth Attempt to Construct a Politics of Welfare Obligations. Policy & Politics, 33 (1). pp. 15-32. ISSN 0305 5736 politics welfare http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tpp/pap/2005/00000033/00000001/art00002
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welfare
Fitzpatrick, Tony
The Fourth Attempt to Construct a Politics of Welfare Obligations
title The Fourth Attempt to Construct a Politics of Welfare Obligations
title_full The Fourth Attempt to Construct a Politics of Welfare Obligations
title_fullStr The Fourth Attempt to Construct a Politics of Welfare Obligations
title_full_unstemmed The Fourth Attempt to Construct a Politics of Welfare Obligations
title_short The Fourth Attempt to Construct a Politics of Welfare Obligations
title_sort fourth attempt to construct a politics of welfare obligations
topic politics
welfare
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