Social Democratic
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- Created on: 28-01-17 17:46
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- Social Democratic Perspective
- They have contrasting views from the New Right
- The Labour Party has been influenced by the work of Beveridge
- They believe that poverty is a result of the inequalities created by the labour market in capitlist societies
- They say there is a free maret economy
- There are low wages and high unemployment and as a result there is a need for a welfare state
- Unlike Marxists, they don't think that revolution is the answer. They think that the state should intervene
- A profit driven market doesn't care for the elderly, poor and disabled
- Wealth isn't distributed evenly
- Titmuss believed that the welfare state could bring people together and give them a shared sense of citizenship
- Titmuss believed that the universal benefits should not be means tested as it is humiliating, bureaucratic, and off putting, which may discourage people from claiming benefit to which they are entitled
- Testing benefits could produce a poverty trap
- The Social Democratic approach had some influence on the Labour government of 1964-70 and 1974-9
- In 1999 Britain's first national minimum wage was introduced
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