The paternalist politics of punitive and enabling workfare: evidence from a new dataset on workfare reforms in 16 countries, 1980-2015

Does neoliberalism lie behind the increased use of social policy to control and incentivize labour market behaviour? We argue that this assumed connection is theoretically weak and empirically inaccurate, and we point to an alternative explanation centred on government paternalism. Using a new compa...

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Main Authors:	Alexander Horn, Anthony Kevins, Kees van Kersbergen
Format:	Default Article
Published:	2022
Subjects:	Other economics not elsewhere classified welfare state unemployment political economy ideology government social policy
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/2134/21293883.v1
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