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Fairness, equality and legitimacy
— a qualitative comparative study of Germany and the UK | | Author(s) | Peter Taylor-Gooby, Rose Martin |
| Journal title | Social Policy & Administration, vol 44, no 1, February 2010 |
| Pages | pp 85-103 |
| Source | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28... DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9515.2009.00701.x |
| Keywords | Social welfare ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Rights [elderly] ; Qualitative Studies ; Comparison ; Germany ; United Kingdom. |
| Annotation | The pressures of globalisation and shifts towards post-industrialism are producing policies that increasingly emphasize the common themes of activation and of individual responsibility for outcomes. Such approaches suggest normative principles of equality of opportunity rather than of outcome, and of individual rather than collective responsibility for the outcomes achieved. Does this imply a shift towards a common normative framework for European welfare states, with implications for future policy developments? This article reports a recent qualitative study examining ideas about fairness and social provision in the very different regimes of Germany and the UK. The analysis shows that while respondents in both countries value equality of opportunity as a normative principle, those in Germany are much more likely to argue that an equal opportunity approach requires government to guarantee equal access to basic services. They are also more likely to express concerns about market freedoms which allow those who can afford it better access to health care and education. Real differences in welfare values remain, loosely following differences of regime type, despite the greater emphasis on activation and individual responsibility across European welfare states. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100909207 A |
| Classmark | TY: TOB: IKR: 3DP: 48: 767: 8 |
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