The Welfare State Alan Colquhoun Analysis

The article addresses the myth surrounding welfare. Americans common belief government's aid enhances corruption among poor people has its roots in the past —even Franklin Delano Roosevelt considered welfare “a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit.” However, recent statistics highlights the beneficial’ effects of cash assistance for the poor. The welfare positively impacts the life of children, improving the quality of their nutrition and education. Moreover, in a moment of great economic recession the welfare is the only net that can support people in need.

The bridge to prosperity: The Canadian welfare state. Through the years, Canada’s security and prosperity it’s one of the most important topics between its citizens. Introduced in the Second World War, the “welfare state” aims to give an equality service, a minimum income, protection for the elders, unemployment and disabilities as in sickness. For some, the decisions made were debatable given the tough times: pogey, the Medicare program and the Canadian Pension Plan (CCP) represents an ideal standard of living an economically healthy life moreover its one of the most important values the Canadian society is built on.

During the late 1980’s Ronald Reagan wanted to advocate self-independence and advancement. He believed too that he needed to sign into the law of welfare bill. Regan stated “reform that will lead to lasting emancipation from welfare dependency” (Davies, 1). Unfortunately, the welfare reform didn’t get its message through which was to promote self-responsibility and self-support. During the 1960 and 1970 the ideals of liberalism were not spoken about.

The main purpose of social rented dwellings is to provide the opportunity of decent housing for the low-income. Therefore the target group is mainly the immigrants. Since the public housing is kept under control by the government, they might decide to allocate dwellings in a certain neighborhood exclusively to non- immigrants. Housing associations can subtly refuse to register immigrant families by saying that no large dwellings are currently vacant or by asking high registration fees. (van Kempen, Schutjens, van Weesep, 2002).

Introduction For almost a half of the 20th century, Europe had been divided into two distinctive blocks. They were distinctive in ideology, political regime, economy, and other characteristics. While the ‘West’ was known for its democratic values, the ‘East’ was known for its totalitarian regime. Sweden was in the former, Czechoslovakia in the latter block of states.

1AC Ever since President Franklin D. Roosevelt started welfare in 1935, the US has been funding lazy people so they don’t have to get a job. Money, being stolen from the wealthy and hardworking, only to be given to the poor and lazy. Welfare has created a generation of people who don’t want to work and expect things given to them. People should have to work for their own income, not have others work for them. That is why my partner and I stand firmly…..

Social Welfare Policy and Child Protection – Strength and Limitations Since last two decades Canada being experienced softer and harder forms of neo-liberal economic impetus (McKeen, 2006). Many of these reforms targeted social benefits and divided marginalized people into deserved and undeserved category (McKeen, 2006). At a large level, social policies are shaped by the exploration of dominant ideas about a social issue. Existing political views and the interest of the dominant policy community are predominantly influencing policy making (McKeen, 2006). The mainstream discourses for solutions of social problems and policy outcomes are increasingly underrepresented and narrow down the focus of social welfare in Canada (McKeen, 2006).

He encourages the reader to free oneself from official or commercial architecture which are influenced by the prejudice towards the late phases in architecture which are only concerned with a few selected cultures and turn a blind eye to underdeveloped countries and their alien architecture. He praises primitive architecture for its timelessness and its ability to serve its purpose to perfection with no room for improvement and regrets that the origin of these indigenous building forms and construction methods is lost in the past. Rudofsky then introduces Communal Architecture, ‘ art not produced by a few intellectuals or specialists but by the spontaneous and continuing activity of a whole people with a common heritage, acting under a community experience.’ The beauty of primitive architecture is often dismissed as accidental, but today we should recognize it as an art that developed from human intellect that was applied to handling practical issues and our problems are rooted in our tendency to accredit specialists who may have exceptional insight but are largely concerned with business and prestige. He challenges his readers on a fundamental level and exposes alternate and endangered forms of urban development, lifestyle, social spaces and practicality which we have not learnt from.

Title Argument: Brutalism social housing built during the post-war period in 1970s have become obsolete in present time. It has been evaluated to be devalued and revalued from a cultural and economic perspective. Should these architecture buildings be conserve or demolish to make way for new development? 1 INTRODUCTION Conservation of Brutalism social housing have been debate among politician, developers, community, architects and the people.

Introduction To discuss about welfare dependency, I would like to use social disorganization perspective for my argument. Welfare dependency means that many poor mainland immigrants or the people who are poor but they have basic ability for work or maintain their daily life, however they only depend on the welfare provision from government such as Comprehensive Social Security Assistance(CSSA). As welfare dependency seems a problem affect to Hong Kong’s economy, I may explain the problem through social disorganization perspective and to find out the welfare dependency’s major problem. On the other hand, I am going to explain how the social disorganization perspective help us to explain not “only lazy people would live on CSSA” (Leung, 1998)and

New designs have been adopted since the onset of architecture, and thus, with the concentration of a history of architecture, new phenomenon and innovations are realized that would help in further explanation and address of other necessities in the same sector. A concentration in the History of architecture and landscape architecture as a course incorporates more than one element of

The British Welfare state has become an important part of the British state politics since its establishment and development. Factors contributing to the establishment of the Welfare State includes population increase, unemployment, poverty and limited of resources (Clark,2007). The rapid and demographic changes after the World War II have seriously affected the Social policy system of Britain. Over the years, there has been reduction of costs and spending in response to economic difficulty causing the government to restructure the welfare state system particularly after the conservative welfare state reforms of the 1980.

The first classification is the Social-Democratic welfare state model where such regimes are highly decommodified - welfare services are subdivided by the state and universal for all citizens. Such countries include: Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. The second type, is the Conservative Corporatist Model where welfare services may be highly decommofied but aren’t necessarily universal. The amount of benefits to which a citizen is entitled to depends on their position in society. This regime may not be aimed at eliminating inequalities but at maintaining social stability, strong families and loyalty to the state and an example of such countries include Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Spain and Italy.

There are several theories underlying this dissertation such as the activation theory, path dependency, variety of capitalism, and the theory of welfare chauvinism. In this regard, institutions cover three major facets of institutionalization processes and the administrative machineries experience path dependencies (Thoenig, 2011). They are organizations that handle public affairs (Brunsson and Olsen, 1997: 20), serve as political devices and action-oriented systems (Thoenig, 2011) depending on the dissimilar models of national capitalism. Furthermore, institutions intervene in public affairs (Thoenig, 2011) through regulative activation policies to steer young third country immigrant transition to work.

I. Introduction The main aim of this paper is to introduce the gender differences that occur because of certain welfare state policies. The focus will be on three types of regimes: liberal, social-democratic, and conservative-corporatist; and how these three regimes incorporate the gender differences in their social policies. Welfare state policies, or social provisions began during the 1880s making this period known as the “formative period of the welfare state”.