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Citizenship, Social Citizenship and the Defence of Welfare Provision

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  • King, Desmond S.
  • Waldron, Jeremy

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This article analyses the normative status of claims to the social rights of citizenship in the light of New Right criticisms of the welfare state. The article assesses whether there is any normative justification for treating welfare provision and citizenship as intrinsically linked. After outlining T. H. Marshall's conception of citizenship the article reviews its status in relation to: traditional arguments about citizenship of the polity; relativist arguments about the embedded place of citizenship within current societies; and, drawing upon Rawlsian analysis, absolutist arguments about what being a member of a modern society implies. Each argument has some strengths and together they indicate the importance of retaining the idea of citizenship at the centre of modern political debates about social and economic arrangements.

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  • King, Desmond S. & Waldron, Jeremy, 1988. "Citizenship, Social Citizenship and the Defence of Welfare Provision," British Journal of Political Science, Cambridge University Press, vol. 18(4), pages 415-443, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:bjposi:v:18:y:1988:i:04:p:415-443_00
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    1. Juliet Pietsch, 2017. "Diverse Outcomes: Social Citizenship and the Inclusion of Skilled Migrants in Australia," Social Inclusion, Cogitatio Press, vol. 5(1), pages 32-44.

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