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Author Plant, Raymond

Title Political Philosophy and Social Welfare : Essays on the Normative Basis of Welfare Provisions
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (208 pages)
Series Routledge Revivals
Routledge revivals.
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Political philosophy and social welfare; Part One: Needs, welfare and social policy; 2 Needs, rights and welfare; 3 Human needs, objectivity and morality; 4 The moral basis of welfare provision; Part Two: Needs, welfare and political processes; 5 Needs, interests and power; 6 Objectivity, social justice and social policy; 7 True and false needs; 8 Markets, needs and welfare; Part Three: Community, welfare and social policy; 9 Community and the legitimation of social policy; 10 Markets, community and welfare; Bibliography
Name indexSubject index
Summary This re-issued work, first published in 1980, represents a work of normative political philosophy which argues positively for the centrality of the obligation to meet the various demands of social need in our society, and will be of particular interest to students of politics, philosophy, social politics and administration. Bringing the insights of analytical Political Philosophy to bear on the issues of social welfare and welfare provision, the authors discuss such issues as the basis of the sense of stigma involved in the receipt of welfare benefits, the right of welfare and the concepts of
Notes Print version record
Form Electronic book
Author Taylor-Gooby, Peter
Lessor, Harry
ISBN 9780203092262
0203092260