Deserving individuals and groups: justifying the shape of South Africa's welfare state
| dc.contributor.author | Seekings, Jeremy | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-04-29T08:04:14Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-04-29T08:04:14Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2007 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-04-29T08:03:20Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | The constitution charges the government with the progressive realisation of the right of impoverished citizens to income security.? In practice, this means that the government must have a reasonable defence of the current size and shape of its social welfare programmes.? Legal challenges have pushed the state into offering such a defence.? In summary, the state justifies the current size and shape of the welfare state primarily on the grounds that the state is targeting its scarce resources on the most 'disadvantaged' groups, where disadvantage is defined in terms of past opportunity not of current need.? In this view, the public welfare system should help those groups of people who had fewest opportunities to provide for themselves.? This argument entails a new version of the distinction between 'deserving' and 'undeserving' poor.? The state's application of this argument in recent court papers is flawed empirically, but in making the argument the state has provided a basis for constructive debate on the shape of the welfare state. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Seekings, J. (2007). <i>Deserving individuals and groups: justifying the shape of South Africa's welfare state</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19314 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Seekings, Jeremy <i>Deserving individuals and groups: justifying the shape of South Africa's welfare state.</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR), 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19314 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Seeking, J. (2007). Deserving individuals and groups: justifying the shape of South Africa’s Welfare State. Centre for Social Science Research: University of Cape Town. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Working Paper AU - Seekings, Jeremy AB - The constitution charges the government with the progressive realisation of the right of impoverished citizens to income security.? In practice, this means that the government must have a reasonable defence of the current size and shape of its social welfare programmes.? Legal challenges have pushed the state into offering such a defence.? In summary, the state justifies the current size and shape of the welfare state primarily on the grounds that the state is targeting its scarce resources on the most 'disadvantaged' groups, where disadvantage is defined in terms of past opportunity not of current need.? In this view, the public welfare system should help those groups of people who had fewest opportunities to provide for themselves.? This argument entails a new version of the distinction between 'deserving' and 'undeserving' poor.? The state's application of this argument in recent court papers is flawed empirically, but in making the argument the state has provided a basis for constructive debate on the shape of the welfare state. DA - 2007 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2007 T1 - Deserving individuals and groups: justifying the shape of South Africa's welfare state TI - Deserving individuals and groups: justifying the shape of South Africa's welfare state UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19314 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19314 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Seekings J. Deserving individuals and groups: justifying the shape of South Africa's welfare state. 2007 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19314 | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR) | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
| dc.title | Deserving individuals and groups: justifying the shape of South Africa's welfare state | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
| uct.type.filetype | Image | |
| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Research paper | en_ZA |