Conditional Social Welfare Program

An Conditional Social Welfare Program is a Social Welfare Program that includes behavior rules/welfare program conditions.

• Context:
  • It can range from being a Global Conditional Welfare Program to being a National Conditional Welfare Program to being a Provincial-State Conditional Welfare Program to being a Municipal Conditional Welfare Program.
  • It can range from being an Conditional Cash-Transfer-based Social Welfare Program to being an Conditional Service-based Social Welfare Program.
  • It can be a Means-Tested Welfare Program.
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• Example(s):
  • a Conditional Cash Transfer-based Social Welfare Program, such as cash for vaccinations.
  • an Unemployment Insurance Program, for those looking for work.
  • an Family-based Social Welfare Program.
  • a Workfare Program.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • an Unconditional Social Welfare Program, such as a Universal Healthcare Program.
• See: Social Welfare, Civil Society, Means Test.

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References

2006

• (Schubert & Slater, 2006) ⇒ Bernd Schubert and Rachel Slater. (2006). “Social Cash Transfers in Low‐Income African Countries: Conditional or Unconditional?." Development Policy Review, 24(5).

2005

• (Bénabou & Tirole, 2005) ⇒ Roland Bénabou, and Jean Tirole. Incentives and prosocial behavior. No. w11535. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2005.

2004

• (Dwyer, 2004) =. Peter Dwyer. (2004). “Creeping Conditionality in the UK: From welfare rights to conditional entitlements?." The Canadian Journal of Sociology, 29(2).

1998

• (Dwyer, 1998) ⇒ Peter Dwyer. (1998). “Conditional Citizens? Welfare rights and responsibilities in the late 1990s." Critical Social Policy, 18(57).

1991

• (van Parijs, 1991) ⇒ Philippe van Parijs. (1991). “Why Surfers Should be Fed: the liberal case for an unconditional basic income." Philosophy & Public Affairs.
  • QUOTE: In 1971, Hawaii established a one-year residency requirement for welfare entitlement. This measure was directed against so called, welfare hippies, who had been arriving in considerable numbers …

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