tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595404115121834255.post8668864378784621223..comments2024-03-28T03:24:05.678-04:00Comments on NAKED KEYNESIANISM: Esping-Anderson's Welfare-State Typology, Social Stratification, and Unintended ConsequencesMatias Vernengohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09521604894748538215noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595404115121834255.post-32673671010712742062013-03-13T19:26:32.305-04:002013-03-13T19:26:32.305-04:00As a follow up to the previous comment:
Who take...As a follow up to the previous comment:<br /><br /><br />Who takes the harshest anti-welfare line? Those on state benefits<br />"I talked to families directly affected by the cuts and many wanted benefits themselves – yet resented anyone else getting them".<br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/12/anti-welfare-rhetoric-families<br />Magpiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07528637318288802178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595404115121834255.post-12235899474267543432013-03-10T04:00:15.343-04:002013-03-10T04:00:15.343-04:00One of the effects of means-testing of social bene...One of the effects of means-testing of social benefits, in the liberal mode of welfare state, is the fragmentation of the population recipient of benefits into different and opposed groups, often competing for whatever social benefits are still provided.<br /><br />Whether this is an intended effect or an "unintended consequence" is debatable, but whatever the answer, politically to keep the population in constant mutual conflict it's gold for the maintenance of the system.<br /><br />Currently in Australia, the tendency is to delegitimize the older population's claims for social support:<br /><br />The coming inter-generational war (March 4, 2013)<br />http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2013/03/the-coming-inter-generational-war/<br /><br />Magpiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07528637318288802178noreply@blogger.com