Creating Target Publics for Welfare Policies A Comparative and Multi-Level Approach /: A Comparative and Multi-Level Approach. (c2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Lorenzo Barrault-Stella, Pierre-Edouard Weill, editors.
• Other Names: Barrault-Stella, Lorenzo; Weill, Pierre Edouard
• Contents: Intro; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: The Making of Target Publics for Welfare Policies. From Targeting Practices to Resistances of Governed People; 1.1 From Universalism to Individualization?; 1.1.1 Targeting Versus Universalism: The Dialectic of Welfare Reform; 1.1.2 Individualization as a Smokescreen for Categorization?; 1.2 A Research Program: Comparative and Multilevel Approach; 1.2.1 Linking Case Studies Together to Build an International Comparison; 1.2.2 Multi-level Analysis: Targeting in Practice; 1.3 Outline of the Book: Different but Congruent Cases 1.3.1 Legitimizing Categories in Public Debates1.3.2 Sketching the Outlines of Target Groups; 1.3.3 Adjusting the Targets Through Daily Practices; References; Part I: Legitimizing Categories in Public Debates; Chapter 2: "Organize and Defend Yourself". The Invention of the Middle Class Before Fascism: Actors, Discourse and Institutions; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Discourse on the Middle Classes at the Outset of the Twentieth Century; 2.3 Vincenzo Magaldi and the International Institute for the Study of the Middle Classes: The Role of the Actors and the Institutions 2.4 Total War and the Middle Classes: From Discourse to Reform2.5 "Declassing" and Political Mobilization; 2.6 Creating Target Publics; References; Chapter 3: How Central Is the Middle? Middle Class Discourses and Social Policy Design in Germany; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Middle Class (Discourse) and Welfare State; 3.3 The Middle Class As Discursive Category in Current German Media Debates; 3.4 Middle Class Discourses and Social Policy Design; 3.4.1 Conceptualising the Interrelationship Between Target Groups and Policy Design; 3.4.2 Tracing Middle Class Discourses in Welfare Policies in Germany 3.5 ConclusionsReferences; Part II: Sketching the Outlines of Target Groups; Chapter 4: Frame, Funnel, Deter: The Mechanisms of Behavioral Targeting; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Framing the Legitimate; 4.3 Funneling the Eligible; 4.4 Deterring the Non-compliant; 4.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 5: Targeting by Numbers. The Uses of Statistics for Monitoring French Welfare Benefit Recipients; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 A New Statistical Tool for Monitoring; 5.2.1 A Risk Management Tool; 5.2.2 The Institutional Appropriation of Data Mining; 5.3 A Control Mechanism Realigned Around Data Mining 5.3.1 A New Cornerstone of Monitoring5.3.2 More Centralized Supervision in Localized Targeting; 5.4 Towards Increased Monitoring of the Most Vulnerable Populations; 5.4.1 Risk-Prediction Models that Correspond to Welfare Beneficiary Characteristics; 5.4.2 The Most Vulnerable Are Overexposed to Monitoring; 5.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 6: The Paradoxical Place of Psychiatry in the Administration of Disability: Dealing with the Reframing of Autism from a Psychiatric to an Educative Issue in the Concrete Making of a Target Public; 6.1 Introduction
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (212 p.)
• Subjects: 361.6; Philosophy; Public welfare; Public welfare administration; Public administration; Statistics; Social policy; Public policy; Logic; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services; Public administration; Public welfare; Public welfare administration; Social Science -- Statistics; Political Science -- Public Policy -- Social Policy; Political Science -- Public Policy -- General; Philosophy -- Logic; Social research & statistics; Political economy; Public administration; Philosophy: logic; Philosophy -- Social; Social & political philosophy; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319895963; 3319895966
• Related ISBNs: 3319895958; 9783319895956
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.
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