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In Search of a Welfare Democracy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2002

Tony Fitzpatrick
Affiliation:
School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham. E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

This article contributes to the growing literature concerning the necessity and desirability of democratising the UK welfare state. It takes a theoretical approach by exploring some of the key influences on contemporary debates: risk society, governmentality, the new social democracy and associational welfare. The article suggests that none of these supplies the theoretical foundations of a welfare democracy and that another approach must be found. It concludes that only by engaging with the debate concerning deliberative democracy can social policy find a way forward. The key is to emancipate social time through an alternative ethic to that of paid employment.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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