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Shih-jiunn Shi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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towards inclusive Social Citizenship rethinking china s Social security in the trend towards urban rural harmonisation
Journal of Social Policy, 2012Co-Authors: Shih-jiunn ShiAbstract:Urban–rural harmonisation has risen to prominence in recent Social security reform in China. This article offers an account of the changing welfare institutions and Social Citizenship configurations unfolded by this particular policy approach. As Social activism gained substantial weight as part of the regional developmental strategies of local governments, harmonisation efforts have led to a boundary shift of Social Citizenship largely defined by the within–without criterion rather than the urban–rural divide. In places where urban–rural harmonisation takes hold, the pivotal criterion for claiming Social benefits is the possession of local resident status, regardless of whether this status is urban or rural. The heterogeneity of regional Social security developments resulting from Social decentralisation also calls attention to the ‘variable geometry’ of institutional change, i.e. various Social policy domains manifest diverse degrees of institutional dynamics towards harmonisation. In this light, urban–rural harmonisation is likely to trigger competitive solidarity in terms of regional competition and emulation in economic development and Social provision, leading to regional disparities that will shape the future contours of Social policy and Social Citizenship in China.
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Towards Inclusive Social Citizenship? Rethinking China's Social Security in the Trend towards Urban–Rural Harmonisation
Journal of Social Policy, 2012Co-Authors: Shih-jiunn ShiAbstract:AbstractUrban–rural harmonisation has risen to prominence in recent Social security reform in China. This article offers an account of the changing welfare institutions and Social Citizenship configurations unfolded by this particular policy approach. As Social activism gained substantial weight as part of the regional developmental strategies of local governments, harmonisation efforts have led to a boundary shift of Social Citizenship largely defined by the within–without criterion rather than the urban–rural divide. In places where urban–rural harmonisation takes hold, the pivotal criterion for claiming Social benefits is the possession of local resident status, regardless of whether this status is urban or rural. The heterogeneity of regional Social security developments resulting from Social decentralisation also calls attention to the ‘variable geometry’ of institutional change, i.e. various Social policy domains manifest diverse degrees of institutional dynamics towards harmonisation. In this light, urban–rural harmonisation is likely to trigger competitive solidarity in terms of regional competition and emulation in economic development and Social provision, leading to regional disparities that will shape the future contours of Social policy and Social Citizenship in China.
Anika Seemann - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Danish ‘ghetto initiatives’ and the changing nature of Social Citizenship, 2004–2018:
Critical Social Policy, 2020Co-Authors: Anika SeemannAbstract:This article critically examines the Danish ‘ghetto initiatives’ of 2004, 2010, 2013 and 2018, with a particular focus on their implications for ‘Social Citizenship’. Its approach is twofold: first...
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the danish ghetto initiatives and the changing nature of Social Citizenship 2004 2018
Critical Social Policy, 2020Co-Authors: Anika SeemannAbstract:This article critically examines the Danish ‘ghetto initiatives’ of 2004, 2010, 2013 and 2018, with a particular focus on their implications for ‘Social Citizenship’. Its approach is twofold: first...
Daniel Edmiston - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Resistance or resignation to welfare reform? The activist politics for and against Social Citizenship
Policy & Politics, 2018Co-Authors: Daniel Edmiston, Louise HumpageAbstract:Since 2008, mature welfare states have, to varying degrees, pursued a strategy of welfare reform that has reconfigured the dominant praxis of Social Citizenship. Drawing on qualitative data from two studies, this paper explores what bearing this has had on the political subjectivity of welfare claimants in the New Zealand context. The findings suggest welfare claimants engage in diverse political struggles for and against Social Citizenship to resist, reconfigure and resign themselves to the prevailing socio-political settlement. In light of this, conclusions are drawn about the insurgent politics of low-income Social security claimants as political agents in the Citizenship-making process
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Welfare, Inequality and Social Citizenship
2018Co-Authors: Daniel EdmistonAbstract:Based on a study exploring lived experiences of poverty and prosperity, this book problematizes dominant policy thinking surrounding the functions and limits of welfare in austerity Britain. It does so by critically examining the distributional effects of welfare reform and fiscal recalibration to establish what bearing this has on the changing character and logic of Social Citizenship in Britain today. Drawing on testimonies of those experiencing relative deprivation and affluence, the book provides an account of the everyday language, ideals and practices that underpin Social Citizenship and structural inequality. Patterned divergence in the lived realities, political subjectivity and civic engagement of the ‘rich’ and ‘poor’ offers insight into the manifold ways in which welfare austerity secures and maintains institutional legitimacy amidst rising structural inequality. The book presents evidence to suggest that affluent citizens are able to engage with the prevailing terms of Social Citizenship from within, and in ways that meet their material and discursive ends. By contrast, those at the sharp end of welfare austerity lack the socio-material resources and means of collective identification to engage in sustained political struggle for their rights, identity and recognition. The book reflects on the implications of this for Social policy design and delivery as well as the broader health of public deliberation surrounding welfare and inequality in advanced capitalist economies.
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Welfare, Austerity and Social Citizenship in the UK
Social Policy and Society, 2016Co-Authors: Daniel EdmistonAbstract:Viewed within their historical context, recent cuts to public Social spending and increasingly governmental welfare reforms reflect and beget a shift in the praxis of Social Citizenship in the UK. This review article demonstrates how greater conceptual attention to the constitutive features of Social Citizenship can help clarify some of the claims made about its relation to austerity and welfare reform within the existing literature. Through schematic consideration of the emerging evidence, this article suggests that welfare austerity is undermining the ‘effectiveness’, ‘inalienability’ and ‘universality’ of Social Citizenship in the UK.
Ka-ying Wong - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Expectations and Practice in Social Citizenship: Some Insights from an Attitude Survey in a Chinese Society
Social Policy and Administration, 2005Co-Authors: Chack-kie Wong, Ka-ying WongAbstract:This paper draws on empirical evidence from an attitude survey in a Chinese society to show that the universal ideals of Social Citizenship have strong appeal among the Chinese in Hong Kong, even though the latter are conventionally seen as having low expectations in the area of Social rights. It is also shown that high expectations of Social responsibilities do not imply low expectations of Social Citizenship. However, this does not mean that cultural context or tradition does not matter. Findings of strong support for the responsibility of parents to care for children, but in a westernized and modern context, suggest that cultural variations in beliefs about Social Citizenship and practice continue, but framed by an understanding of, and moral commitment to, more universal values of Social Citizenship.
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Universal ideals and particular constraints of Social Citizenship: the Chinese experience of unifying rights and responsibilities
International Journal of Social Welfare, 2004Co-Authors: Chack-kie Wong, Ka-ying WongAbstract:This study looks at the perceptions of citizens in a modern Chinese society and explores whether Social rights and responsibilities are unified at both ideal and practice levels. It finds that the conception that the Chinese have a weak image of Social rights is no longer true. The Chinese are generally ‘right-deficit’ at the practice level. It is also found that there are wide gaps between ideal rights and practice rights, and between ideal responsibilities and practice responsibilities, except in components affected by cultural, contextual and institutional factors. The findings suggest that, for a full understanding of Social Citizenship, it is necessary to look at both ideal and practice levels of Social Citizenship. Cultural, contextual and institutional factors are identified as moderating people's behaviour and preferences in regard to Social Citizenship.
Marja Hirvi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Water Privatization and Social Citizenship: The Case of Urban Water Sector in Ghana
Journal of Civil Society, 2012Co-Authors: Marja HirviAbstract:The impact of globalization on Citizenship has recently gathered considerable academic attention. In the literature it is assumed that globalization will alter Citizenship, either by constraining or enabling it. The article explores this question through the relationship between water privatization and Social Citizenship. It asks to what extent privatization, as an aspect of globalization, alters people's Social right to water. Drawing from interviews and documents collected in 2008 and 2009, and a review of secondary literature, the article argues that in Ghana's capital Accra, water privatization left people's Social Citizenship relatively unchanged. The study shows how Social Citizenship is rooted in its historical context of unequal access to water in a post-colonial society, and how the privatization policy was mediated by this context, bringing relatively little change. Instead, many flexible, self-enforced Social Citizenships are in place which challenge the universal notions of Western political t...
