1 Tables, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
Publishing Details
Publisher
Policy Press
Imprint
Policy Press
Publication Date
27 February 2019
Publication Country
United Kingdom
Description
This book offers a unique account of how conditional welfare policies are implemented and experienced by a diverse range of welfare service users subject to conditional welfare interventions and services. Each chapter presents a new empirical analysis of data generated in a series of original and distinct qualitative research projects that are exploring the implementation and effects of welfare conditionality. The data presented and analysed in these studies is generated in fieldwork conducted with both practitioners (i.e. those charged with interpreting and delivering policy), and also welfare service users who are at the sharp end of welfare services shaped by behavioural conditionality.
Author Biography
Peter Dwyer is Professor of Social Policy at the University of York, UK. His research and teaching focuses on social citizenship. He led the large ESRC fundedWelfare Conditionality:Sanctions Support and Behaviour Change (2013-2018) project.
Reviews
"This compelling and often affecting account of the attempts of various arms of the welfare state to enforce `good' behaviour by service users will interest readers across the social sciences." Mark Simpson, Ulster University
