A resource-based perspective on the regulatory welfare state: Social security in the United Kingdom

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Horton, David P.; Lynch-Wood, Gary
• 署名单位: University of Liverpool; University of Manchester; University of Liverpool
• 刊物名称: REGULATION & GOVERNANCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1748-5983
• DOI: 10.1111/rego.12559
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 953-969
• 关键词: universal credit; lived experiences; benefit cap; CONDITIONALITY; SANCTIONS; working; british; rise

摘要

The article provides a resource-based perspective on the polymorphic regulatory welfare state. It shows regulatory and fiscal tools applied in the UK social security sector place demands on claimants' resources (i.e., possessions, labor and data) and simultaneously alter behavior in relation to these resources. The analysis exposes an operation that generates new and increasing resource pressures for claimants, providing a deeper conceptualization of a regulatory welfare state. It offers a new perspective on why regulatory and fiscal arrangements perpetuate existing inequalities and suggests an increase in welfare problems as the regulatory welfare state intensifies resource pressures.