Unconditional Social Welfare Program

An Unconditional Social Welfare Program is a Social Welfare Program that does not include behavior rules.

• Context:
  • It can range from being a Global Unconditional Social Welfare Program to being a Nationa Unconditional Social Welfare Program to being a Provincial-State Unconditional Social Welfare Program to being a Municipal Unconditional Social Welfare Program.
  • It can range from being an Unconditional Cash-based Social Welfare Program to being an Unconditional Service-based Social Welfare Program.
• Example(s):
  • Canadian Family Allowance Program (1945-1989)[1] for Young Family Households (regardless of household income).
  • a Universal Healthcare Program.
  • a Minimum Income Program.
  • a Unconditional Housing Program.
  • an Older Person-based Social Welfare Program (for Older Person).
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Conditional Social Welfare Program, such as cash for vaccinations.
  • an Unemployment Insurance Program.
  • an Family-based Social Welfare Program.
• See: Social Welfare, Civil Society, Household Income.

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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).

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