Relational legal consciousness in the punitive welfare state: How <scp>Dutch</scp> welfare officials shape clients' perceptions of law

".. The Law Is All Over": Power, Resistance and the Legal Consciousness of the Welfare Poor

The Children of Leviathan: Psychoanalytic Speculations Concerning Welfare Law and Punitive Sanctions

From Poor Law to welfare state; a history of social welfare in America

Punitive Sanctions and the Transition Rate from Welfare to Work

In The Netherlands, the average exit rate out of welfare is dramatically low. Most welfare recipients have to comply with guidelines on job search e ort that are imposed by the welfare agency. If they do not, then a sanction in the form of a temporarily bene t reduction can be imposed. This paper investigates the e ect of such sanctions on the transition from welfare to work using a unique set ...

The Welfare State

history of Great Britain from 1945 to the present day'. It covers not only the legislation which established what we have come to know as the Welfare State, but aspects such as population growth, geographical environment, and the development of the nationa-lised industries. The sections on health services are relatively small, but related to the wider context of national culture. Whilst the mai...