CHARACTERIZING NEW LABOUR: THE CASE OF THE CHILD TRUST FUND
CHARACTERIZING NEW LABOUR: THE CASE OF THE CHILD TRUST FUND
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新劳工的特征：儿童信托基金的案例
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2008
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Alan Finlayson
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Alan Finlayson
2005 年 1 月生效的英国儿童信托基金 (CTF) 似乎是“基于资产的福利”的典范，是财富再分配而不仅仅是收入的再分配。然而，本文表明，在其发展过程中以及最终实施过程中，周大福政策变得更加注重营造“储蓄文化”和提高金融知识。在解释这一结果时，有人认为，这可能是新工党的特征，进一步认为，福利政策应寻求将个人愿望和观点推向某些方向。本文采用解释性方法来研究政策和政治，认为我们应该仔细审视政策“对象”被指定的论证和选择过程。这可以帮助我们描述不同政府的做法及其“治理性”。
The UK Child Trust Fund (CTF), which came into effect in January 2005, appears to be an exemplary instance of ‘asset-based welfare’, of the redistribution of wealth rather than simply income. However, this article shows that over the course of its development, and in its final implementation, CTF policy became ever more focused on generating a ‘savings culture’ and enhancing financial literacy. In explaining this outcome, it is argued that it may be characteristic of New Labour for which, it is further argued, welfare policy should seek to push individual aspirations and outlooks in certain directions. The article takes an interpretive approach to the study of policy and politics, arguing that we should look carefully at the processes of argument and selection by which ‘objects’ of policy are specified. This can help us characterize the approach of varying administrations, their ‘governmentality’.