All Our Welfare: Towards Participatory Social Policy
All Our Welfare: Towards Participatory Social Policy
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我们所有的福利：迈向参与性社会政策
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2017
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Rikki Dean
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Rikki Dean
迈克尔·戈夫在脱欧公投活动中臭名昭著地说，我认为这个国家的人民已经受够了专家。戈夫的话将成为总结彼得·贝雷斯福德新书主旨的恰当警句。鉴于戈夫和贝雷斯福德几乎肯定会在其他所有问题上意见不一，这种类比突显出，战后将热衷于公共利益的专家官僚机构作为社会管理解决方案的解决方案已在多大程度上声名狼藉。它的失败是左翼和右翼唯一达成一致的事情。我们所有的福利都包含了贝雷斯福德对这一失败的解决方案的建议。这是一本内容广泛的书，分为两部分，借鉴了他40多年来研究社会政策的经验。第一部分是《过去的遗产》，这是一部主要关注英国的社会政策历史，描绘了我们是如何达到现在的状况的。它带领读者了解贫困法律、福利国家的创建及其最近的新自由主义改革。第二部分，《通向未来的道路》是贝雷斯福德的宣言，他提出了一种更具参与性的社会政策，借鉴了他对服务用户运动的参与性研究和经验。这篇评论依次对每一部分内容进行了总结和批判。
‘I think the people in this country have had enough of experts’, Michael Gove infamously said during the EU referendum campaign. Gove’s words would make a fitting epigram to summarise the thrust of Peter Beresford’s new book. The parallel, given that Gove and Beresford would almost certainly disagree on everything else, highlights the extent to which the post-war settlement on public-spirited, expert bureaucracy as the answer to social administration has fallen into disrepute. Its failure is the only thing the left and right agree upon. All Our Welfare contains Beresford’s proposals for a solution to this failure. It is a wide-ranging book, divided into two parts, which draw on his more than 40 years of researching social policy. The first part, ‘The legacy of the past’, is a mostly UK-focused history of social policy charting how we have reached the present situation. It takes the reader through the Poor Laws, the creation of the welfare state and its more recent neoliberal reform. The second part, ‘The way to the future’, is Beresford’s manifesto for a more participatory social policy, drawing on his participatory approach to research and experience in service user movements. This review takes each part in turn, first summarising then critiquing the contents.