Abstract
The chapter analyses the different ways in which conditions can be attached to the receipt of benefits and the changing nature of citizenship in the welfare state. It concludes with a discussion of the new social welfare contract that sought to alter the balance between rights and responsibilities. New rights, which included the right of claimants to expect the government to guarantee that good quality job-search advice and job training were offered in return for the acceptance by claimants of new responsibilities that involved an obligation to take advantage of these opportunities. However, the new contract for welfare that was proposed in 1998 did not mention the penalties that would be imposed, in the form of benefit sanctions, on those who failed to meet their responsibilities.
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See Watts et al. (2014).
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Langenbucher (2015).
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Knotz and Nelson (2013).
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Clasen and Clegg (2007).
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Marshall (1963: Chapter 4).
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Mann (1987).
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See, most famously, Esping-Andersen (1990). It is significant that this work focuses on social security.
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Gallie (1955–1956).
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Etzioni (1995).
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Department of Social Security (1998).
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It has become the slogan of the street newspaper The Big Issue, founded in 1991.
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Adler, M. (2018). Conditionality and the Changing Relationship between the Citizen and the State. In: Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment?. Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90356-9_5
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