Classic Welfare State

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Fill in the blanks: Marshall's definition of social citizenship: 'the right to a modicum of x welfare and security... the right to share in the full x heritage and to life the life of a x being according to the standards prevailing in that society'.
economic, social, civilized
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Who says that middle class participation is actually essential to the maintenance of a generous and 'solidaristic' welfare state?
Esping-Andersen
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Who says that the welfare state is an analytical concept (how we understand social problems and responses to them)?
Pierson
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In what year was the Beveridge Report published?
1942
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Who says that expenditure on welfare tells you nothing about whether a policy is progressive or regressive?
Titmuss
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What was the name given to signify post-war consensus between governments?
Butskellism
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What does Titmuss call a welfare state with high use of Social Assistance?
Residual
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In what year were the Poor Laws reviewed?
1905
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In what year was education made free and compulsory for those under 15?
1944
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In what year was the NHS founded?
1948
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In what year were National Insurance Benefits made available for all in need?
1946
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In what year did the Fabian Society conduct research revealing widespread and serious poverty?
1884
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In what year was the Right to Buy introduced?
1980
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In what year and in what report did researches assess Blair's welfare state as 'a nanny'state which overtaxed the middle classes and sustained an 'underclass''?
2007 Freud Report
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In what year was the Education Reform Act, which brought in a national curriculum and national testing at 7, 11 and 14?
1986
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Who says that social citizenship is about securing material welfare?
Daly
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Who says that power to gain from the welfare state is neither random nor meritocratic?
Sinfield
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Is occupational welfare regressive or progressive
regressive
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What percentage of tax-free pension saving in the UK went to taxpayers in the top band? (Hansard)
60%
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Who said 'Such is the tyranny of stereotypes today that this idea of a welfare society... may paradoxically widen rather than narrow class relationships'?
Titmuss
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Who argues that the middle classes 'have often been more adept in accessing some public welfare services than the poorest'?
Mann
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Who finds that in the UK, the ability to buy a home close to the 'better' local authority/publicly funded school is facilitated by a higher income thereby giving the middle-class parents more choice?
Reay and Lucey
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By what percentage did the number of Direct benefit pension schemes fall in the UK between 2000 and 2005?
65%
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By what percentage did the number of Direct contribution pension schemes rise between 2000 and 2005?
13%
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Who has illustrated the obsession that powerful elites have had with lone mothers over the past 15 years, viewing them as literally demoralised by the experience?
Neubeck
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Who argues that 'while the rich zip by on the escalator of growth, the poorest must try to clamber up the precarious rope 'ladder of opportunity''?
Mann
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Who finds that earnings of those born in 1970 are more closely related to the income of their parents as compared with those born in 1958?
Daly
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What percentage of the vote did Labour win in 1945 on their manifesto pledge to create a socialist society which would be 'free, democratic, efficient, progressive and public spirited'?
48%
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In what year was a public spending White Paper published, declaring that excessive public expenditure and state ownership were the main reason for the UK's poor economic performance?
1979
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Who says that 'as man becomes more individual and more specialised he becomes more socially dependent'?
Durkeim
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In the 1980s, which organisation became the single largest employer in Western Europe
NHS
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Who says that expenditure on welfare tells you nothing about whether a policy is progressive or regressive?

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