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CONTROVERSIES AND PARADOXES OF SOCIAL POLICY: THEORETICAL APPROACH
CONTROVERSIES AND PARADOXES OF SOCIAL POLICY: THEORETICAL APPROACH

Author(s): Łukasz Jurek
Subject(s): Welfare systems, Welfare services
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu
Keywords: paradoxes; controversies; welfare programs; unintended outcomes;

Summary/Abstract: Welfare reforms are carried out by government to solve problems of citizens and to improve their quality of life. However, social interventions also generate various consequences, that are unintended and unanticipated. The aim of the article is to investigate and to systemize such controversial and paradoxical outcomes. Basing on the historical facts, they were divided into three groups: (1) expanding the problem that was to be solved (2) expanding the opposite problem to the solved one, (3) expanding other problem. These outcomes are arguments against welfare programs, that were formulated already by classical researchers (T.R. Malthus, G. Bentham, D. Ricardo, H. Spencer), and currently are being maintained and developed by modern scholars. They focus mainly on: moral hazard, freeriding, incentive traps, and crowding-out individual engagement.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 510
  • Page Range: 90-101
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English
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