When the cap really doesn’t fit: populist policymaking and the benefit cap

Patrick, Ruth, Warnock, Rosalie, Reeves, Aaron ORCID: 0000-0001-9114-965X, Stewart, Kitty ORCID: 0000-0001-7744-8741, Andersen, Kate and Reader, Mary ORCID: 0000-0002-2154-1813 (2021) When the cap really doesn’t fit: populist policymaking and the benefit cap. British Politics and Policy at LSE (18 Nov 2021). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

Ruth Patrick, Rosalie Warnock, Aaron Reeves, Kitty Stewart, Kate Andersen and Mary Reader discuss why the benefit cap was introduced in the first place, its symbolic status within anti-welfare thinking, and the very real harm the policy is causing.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/
Additional Information:	© 2021 The Authors
Divisions:	LSE Social Policy Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion
Subjects:	J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance
Date Deposited:	17 Jan 2022 16:24
Last Modified:	11 Sep 2025 13:34
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/113146

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