Self-Reliance Versus the Welfare State
- 20 January 1985
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Social Policy
- Vol. 14 (1) , 25-47
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047279400014240
Abstract
Arguments for replacing the welfare state with more ‘self-reliance’ are morally questionable. Relying upon state assistance is importantly different from merely receiving it. Furthermore, ‘self-reliance’ as it is currently advocated amounts to reliance upon families. They must necessarily have discretionary control over needed resources in a way that state administrators of ‘welfare rights’ need not; and that makes those vulnerabilities morally more objectionable than equally heavy reliance upon state services.This publication has 39 references indexed in Scilit:
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