Framing welfare recipients in political discourse : political farming through material need assistance / / Lenka Kissová

• Autore: Kissová Lenka
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021]; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (217 pages)
• Disciplina: 320.60947
• Soggetto topico: Public welfare - Europe, Central
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: My Intellectual Journey -- References -- Chapter 2: Workfare in Welfare -- Workfare Policies and Central Europe -- Material Need Assistance Reforms in Slovakia -- The 2004 'New Social Policy' Reform -- The 2014 Material Need Assistance Upgrade -- Critiques of Workfare -- References -- Chapter 3: Methodology and Method -- Discursive Framework -- Discourse and Power -- Analysis of Political Discourse -- Data Collection and Data Analysis -- Questions, Data, Processes -- Methodological Difficulties -- References -- Chapter 4: The Poor, the Offenders, and the 'Unadaptable': Categories Policy-makers Use When Talking About Material Need Recipients -- Poor, Disadvantaged, and Criminal -- The Poverty-Crime Link -- The Ethnicity-Crime Link -- Accepted Shared Representations of the 'Unadaptable' and the Marginalised -- The Story of a Cancer -- References -- Chapter 5: Topics Addressed in Parliamentary Debates -- Evaluating the Social Assistance System -- 'There Are No Cakes Without Work' -- 'Heads Must Roll' -- References -- Chapter 6: Justification of Workfare: The Arguments Policy-makers Use -- 'A Crooked System Leads to Crooked Behaviour' -- Workfare Is Just a Just Measure -- Workfare in Theory and in Practice -- Justifying Illustrations -- References -- Chapter 7: Welfare as a Security Issue -- The Social Construction of Security -- From Non-politicised to Securitised -- Security in the Sociological Perspective -- Security in Parliamentary Debates -- Implications for Securitisation Theory -- References -- Chapter 8: Population Control Through Security Discourses -- Behaviour Control and Regulation -- Regulating Behaviour Through Material Need Assistance -- Material Need Recipients' Rationality as a Form of Governmental Rationality. ; References -- Chapter 9: Ethnicity Plays Its Part -- Boundary-making in Social Assistance Discourse -- Securitisation and Boundary Work -- Picture(s) We Receive About Roma -- A Closer Look Behind the Roma-Criminal Picture -- Roma in the Discursive Hide-and-Seek -- References -- Chapter 10: Lessons Learnt and the Analysis of Political Farming in Welfare -- Epilogue -- References -- Appendix: Speakers Present at Debates -- SMER-SD -- KDH -- Most-Híd -- OĽANO -- SaS -- SDKÚ-DS -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Framing Welfare Recipients in Political Discourse
• ISBN: 3-030-63579-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910491027903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II