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Tim Boswell, MP, All Party Parliamentary Group for Social Science and Policy

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The Social Contract Revisited: The Modern Welfare State

This report summarizes the three-year programme investigating the social contract and the modern welfare state.

'Loyalty Benefits' and the Welfare State

‘Loyalty benefits’ are transfer payments designed to motivate or reward citizens for serving the state, either tangibly or symbolically.

Crisis and the Welfare State: The Need for a New Distributinal Agenda

Contemporary welfare states remain in need of powerful policies aimed at protecting against new social risks, inclusion through work, and more equality in education and the...

The Social Contract in Hard Times

This report and series of policy briefs emanate from a workshop held in Oxford in October 2009, in which political scientists and legal experts examine the impact of recent...

Towards a Global Social Contract: The Challenge of Hard Times

Global inequality has risen in recent years, even in circumstances where aggregate growth rates have risen.

Individual Responsibility and Welfare Contractualism

Jobseekers Agreements are just one type of behaviour management contract. Other contemporary examples include home-school agreements, youth offender contracts, and parenting...

How to Equalize Opportunities

A policymaker wishes to choose a policy, from a set of possible policies, that will equalize opportunities among a group of individuals for the acquisition of some desirable...

Against Personal Responsibility for Welfare

Sometimes people's misfortunes are the consequence of chance, bad luck pure and simple. Other times they are the natural consequence of choices those people have freely made....

Equality and Responsibility in Education Policy

The new social contract aims to establish a society in which individuals can live meaningful lives.

Equality and Personal Responsibility in the New Social Contract

In this report and series of policy briefs, leading political scientists and policymakers examine the role of personal responsibility in creating the conditions necessary to...

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