The Fourth Attempt to Construct a Politics of Welfare Obligations

Fitzpatrick, Tony

Abstract

Since the 1980s there have been three main attempts to ground citizenship upon the principles of duty, obligation and responsibility: conservative, communitarian and Third Way. Each of these are reviewed below. The principal task of this article, though, 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. Our focus will be upon The Civic Minimum by Stuart White since this is arguably the most cogent expression of duty-based egalitarianism to have emerged in recent years.

Key words: citizenship, equality, reciprocity, Basic Income

Citation

Fitzpatrick, T. (2005). The Fourth Attempt to Construct a Politics of Welfare Obligations

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2005
• Deposit Date: Dec 6, 2007
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 6, 2007
• Journal: Policy & Politics
• Electronic ISSN: 0305 5736
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 33
• Issue: 1
• Keywords: politics, welfare
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1020044
• Publisher URL: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tpp/pap/2005/00000033/00000001/art00002
• Additional Information: This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edited version of an article published in Policy & Politics. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Fitzpatrick, Tony (2005) The Fourth Attempt to Construct a Politics of Welfare Obligations. Policy & Politics, 33 (1). pp. 15-32. is available online at: [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tpp/pap/2005/00000033/00000001/art00002].; Readers must only cite published version.