Orton, Michael, Summers, Kate ORCID: 0000-0001-9964-0259 and Morris, Rosa
(2022)
Guiding principles for social security policy: outcomes from a bottom-up approach.
Social Policy and Administration, 56 (3).
485 - 501.
ISSN 0144-5596
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Abstract
Covid-19 has highlighted the inadequacy of UK social security but also the lack of consensus among progressive actors about what would be a better system. One way forward is to focus on the principles that should underpin social security. We present outcomes from a project in which principles were considered by a panel of Expert by Experience benefit claimants. We argue that while scholars often engage in descriptively identifying social security principles in existing policy, the bottom-up approach presented here offers a way of generating normative principles to guide an improved future system. We identify key contributions of this bottom-up approach relating to: the critical importance of principles as a guide to the fundamental purpose of social security, and policy making; the relationship between the treatment of claimants and benefit levels as co-dependent; and how a bottom-up process can produce results that engage with and contribute holistically to the debate.
Item Type: | Article |
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Official URL: | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14679515 |
Additional Information: | © 2021 John Wiley & Sons Ltd |
Divisions: | Methodology |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform |
Date Deposited: | 04 Feb 2022 12:30 |
Last Modified: | 10 Aug 2024 00:36 |
URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/113617 |
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