A Problem Shared? The Role of the Public in the Legitimation of Policy: A Case Study of Gendered Welfare Change in the United Kingdom

IF 1.7 3区社会学 Q2 SOCIAL ISSUES

Social Politics Pub Date : 2021-03-30 DOI:10.1093/SP/JXAB003

Laura Richards-Gray

引用次数: 0

Abstract

Abstract:This article argues that shared problematizations—shared political and public ways of thinking—legitimize policies and their outcomes. To support this argument, it examines the legitimation of gendered welfare reform in the recent U.K. context. Drawing on focus groups with the public, it provides evidence that the public’s problematization of welfare, specifically that reform was necessary to “make work pay” and “restore fairness”, aligned with that of politicians. It argues that the assumptions and silences underpinning this shared problematization, especially silences relating to the value and necessity of care, have allowed for welfare policies that have disadvantaged women.

查看原文本刊更多论文

共享问题？公众在政策合法化中的作用——以英国性别福利变化为例

摘要：本文认为，共同的问题化——共同的政治和公共思维方式——使政策及其结果合法化。为了支持这一论点，它研究了最近英国背景下性别福利改革的合法性。根据公众的焦点小组，它提供了证据，证明公众对福利的问题化，特别是改革对于“让工作有报酬”和“恢复公平”是必要的，这与政治家的观点一致。它认为，支撑这种共同问题化的假设和沉默，特别是与护理的价值和必要性有关的沉默，使得福利政策对妇女不利。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Social Politics Multiple-

CiteScore

4.70

自引率

10.50%

发文量

期刊介绍： Social Politics is the journal for incisive analyses of gender, politics and policy across the globe. It takes on the critical emerging issues of our age: globalization, transnationality and citizenship, migration, diversity and its intersections, the restructuring of capitalisms and states. We engage with feminist theoretical issues and with theories of welfare regimes, "varieties of capitalism," the ideational and cultural turns in social science, governmentality and postcolonialism. We are looking for articles that engage in this exciting mix of debates that will be of interest to our multidisciplinary and international audience.