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Welfare budget lessons from Pre-Industrial England: why the ‘big society’ idea may not work

Boberg-Fazlic, Nina and Sharp, Paul (2016) Welfare budget lessons from Pre-Industrial England: why the ‘big society’ idea may not work. British Politics and Policy at LSE (10 Oct 2016). Website.

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Abstract

Cutting welfare spending is unlikely to lead to an increase in private voluntary work and charitable giving, explain Nina Boberg-Fazlic and Paul Sharp. Using historical data from late eighteenth and early nineteenth century England, they illustrate how parts of the country that saw increased levels of spending under the Poor Laws also enjoyed higher levels of charitable income.

Item Type: Online resource (Website)
Official URL: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy
Additional Information: © 2016 The Author(s) CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Divisions: LSE
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance
J Political Science > JA Political science (General)
J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain
Date Deposited: 31 Mar 2017 10:09
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2023 20:32
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/71868

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