Social policy and risk
Auteur :
Culpitt, Ian R
Éditeur :
SAGE Publications Inc
ISBN :
9780761958857
Date de publication :
22 avr. 1999
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 cm
Poids :
450 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
This text applies ideas of risk - as expressed by theorists such as Beck and Foucault - to changes in welfare. The author demonstrates how neo-liberals have used aspects of risk to attack welfare dependency and shows how rhetorics of risk have been used to reshape contemporary politics.