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A post-productivist future for social democracy?
- Author:
- FITZPATRICK Tony
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Society, 3(3), July 2004, pp.213-222.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The purpose of this article is to contrast productivism with post-productivism and raise a question mark over the extent to which social democrats should support the former rather than the latter. It offers a definition of post-productivism, explaining this in terms of the ‘reproductive value’ of care and sustainability. The paper then sketches the limits to social democracy and indicates why post-productivist solutions might therefore be appropriate. It concludes by speculating on some implications for social policy.
Making welfare for future generations
- Author:
- FITZPATRICK Tony
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 35(5), December 2001, pp.506-520.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article attempts to construct a new temporal framework for social policy. It draws upon a theory of intergenerational justice that has been elaborated by the author elsewhere and uses that theory to elaborate upon the principles of "substainable justice". The article addresses some of the difficult philosophical dilemmas that those principles generate and argues that reconciling the interests of present and future generations of the least well-off requires the design of new property regime. An ecosocial regime is defined and discussed, especially in terms of substitutable goods. The article concludes by debating implications of the above for social policy and future welfare reform.
Postmodernism, welfare and radical politics
- Author:
- FITZPATRICK Tony
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Policy, 25(3), July 1996, pp.303-320.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
Argues that postmodernist theory is something which students of social policy should neither accept uncritically nor dismiss out of hand. Firstly, the article takes issue with the responses made to postmodernist theory by Ramesh Mishra and Peter Taylor-Gooby. Secondly, it argues that the ideas loosely known as 'reflective-modernisation' constitute a more measured and critical response, though such ideas are likely to be of little use to social policy research in the absence of any reference to a left-right spectrum. Thirdly, it argues that by combining reflective modernisation with a left-right spectrum, a decentred conception of welfare emerges which could be of value to a radical left politics. Finally, it argues for a Citizen's Income as a reform proposal which has the potential to establish such a system of a system of decentred welfare.
International encyclopedia of social policy
- Editors:
- FITZPATRICK Tony, et al, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 1688p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The extensive work includes 734 A-Z entries written by 284 leading specialists covering all aspects of the discipline and practice of social policy. It has a strong coverage of differing geographical and cultural traditions so that the variety of social policy is reflected. Entries attempt to introduce a core or common ground of understanding before moving on to a wider discussion of debates regarding different conceptual and geographical approaches. Biographical entries on major policy makers and shapers are included and cross-referencing is provided.
The two paradoxes of welfare democracy
- Author:
- FITZPATRICK Tony
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Social Welfare, 11(2), April 2002, pp.159-169.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article has three objectives. First, to apply the debate concerning deliberative or discursive democracy to the subject of social policy in order to renew and update the long-standing attempt to go beyond the paradigm of welfare-state capitalism. The ‘crisis of universalism’ is outlined and this is then explained in terms of the traditional welfare state’s ‘democratic deficit’. Second, to suggest that applying these debates reveals two paradoxes that bear implications not only for social policy but also for the entire project of discursive democracy. The first paradox refers to the need to combine proceduralist and pluralist theories of deliberative democracy, despite the ultimate irreconcilability of these philosophies. The second refers to the problem of social transition and the fact that democratisation and social equalisation require one other. The third objective is therefore to suggest that welfare traditionalists have nothing to fear from what are here called ‘post-universalist’ critiques.
Applied ethics and social problems: moral questions of birth, society and death
- Author:
- FITZPATRICK Tony
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 270p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Designed to address practical questions, applied ethics is one of the most exciting areas in contemporary philosophy. Yet the relevance of ethical theories to social policy has been under-explored. In Applied ethics and social problems Tony Fitzpatrick presents introductions to the three most influential moral philosophies: Consequentialism, Kantianism and Virtue Ethics. He then relates these to some of the most urgent questions in contemporary public debates about the future of welfare services.
Critical cyberpolicy: network technologies, massless citizens, virtual rights
- Author:
- FITZPATRICK Tony
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 20(3), August 2000, pp.375-407.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article suggests that those interested in both welfare theory and welfare policy cannot afford to overlook the emerging interactions between on-line and off-line environments. It explores the main parameters to the debate relating to cyberspace, in particular, and Information and Communication Technologies more generally. It argues that the pervasiveness of free market capitalism means that the negative consequences of the Internet for society and social welfare reform are those most likely to prevail at present. The task of the social policy community, then, is to contribute to a 'cybercriticalism'. The article outlines a concept of 'virtual rights', the purpose of which is to reinvigorate the traditional categories of rights in an information society to which they often appear unsuited.
The implications of ecological thought for social welfare
- Author:
- FITZPATRICK Tony
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 18(1), February 1998, pp.5-26.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Relatively little attention has been given by the discipline of social policy to ecological critiques. This article begins by reviewing the principal approaches which ecological thought takes to social welfare, noting various similarities and dissimilarities to other ideologies. It then contrasts a productivist with a non-productivist, or ecological, model which the author believes could assist in the redesign, and Greening, of social welfare.
The fourth attempt to construct a politics of welfare obligations
- Author:
- FITZPATRICK Tony
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 33(1), January 2005, pp.15-32.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
Since the 1980s there have been three influential attempts to ground citizenship on the principles of duty, obligation and responsibility: conservative, communitarian and Third Way. Each of these is reviewed in the article. The principal task of this article, however, is to examine the emergence of a fourth attempt, which, by relating duty to equality through the principle of reciprocity, represents a synthesis of traditional social democracy with the new politics of obligation. The focus is on 'The civic minimum' by Stuart White, since this is arguably the most cogent expression of dutybased egalitarianism to have emerged in recent years.
In search of a welfare democracy
- Author:
- FITZPATRICK Tony
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Society, 1(1), January 2002, pp.11-20.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
This article contributes to the growing literature concerning the necessity and desirability of democratising the UK welfare state. It takes a theoretical approach by exploring some of the key influences on contemporary debates: risk society, governmentality, the new social democracy and associational welfare. The article suggests that none of these supplies the theoretical foundations of a welfare democracy and that another approach must be found. It concludes that only by engaging with the debate concerning deliberative democracy can social policy find a way forward. The key is to emancipate social time through an alternative ethic to that of paid employment.