21st Century Welfare: Seventy Years since the Beveridge Report
This review takes a different tack, reporting instead what the population thinks about these problems, their importance and what, if anything, should be done about them. It has recently been suggested that supporters of the welfare state should find the negative findings of surveys of what the British people think about these things ‘truly frightening’. This report, with its wealth of evidence and careful interpretation, offers good grounds to doubt such pessimism.
When reading this report it should be borne in mind that it poses two different types of question. One type asks people about themselves, for example, about the compromises that you would be willing to make to find a job. Even answering a question like this requires mental effort and is not be under-estimated. But it is obviously far simpler to answer than the other type of question which is about public policy. The leading example here of such a question is whether the government should spend more on welfare benefits for the poor even if its leads to higher taxes
Published : 31st December 2012
Author : Suzanne Hall [ More From This Author ]
Publisher : Ipsos Mori [ More From This Publisher ]
Rights : Ipsos Mori
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