Buchbeitrag

External Capabilities and the Limits to Social Policy

This chapter discusses the nature of external capabilities and how they bear upon social policy. Alternative definitions of external capabilities are compared and a simplified version suggested. It is argued that the issues surrounding external capabilities can be resolved only if the capability approach loses its individualistic slant by according higher status to social context. A layered, non reductionist social theory would be helpful here, and a layered scheme for the capability approach is suggested. Such a scheme can show up the narrowness of traditional social policy and its muted impact on external capabilities. Despite endeavouring to fight poverty, social policy cannot guarantee the benign external conditions under which a person’s lifetime opportunities will flourish.

Sprache
Englisch

Klassifikation
Politik
General Welfare; Well-Being
Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
Cultural Economics: Public Policy
Thema
capabilities
capability approach
welfare
social policy

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Jackson, William A.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Verlag Barbara Budrich
ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
(wo)
Opladen
(wann)
2014

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
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Objekttyp

  • Buchbeitrag

Beteiligte

  • Jackson, William A.
  • Verlag Barbara Budrich
  • ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics

Entstanden

  • 2014

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