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Book SynopsisCan anything ever be truly unconditional? Can public services such as healthcare or education be unconditional? And can an income ever be unconditional? This incisive book responds to these questions with a qualified âyes,â and considers whether a social policy regime based on unconditionality might ever replace neoliberalism.
Trade Review‘This is an important and timely book. Malcolm Torry rightly argues that the time has come to shift social policy away from the punitive, exclusionary failures commonplace to neoliberalism and towards a more effective, compassionate, and generative unconditionality fit for the complexities of the 21st Century. Combining empirical rigour and theoretical complexity, the book makes a strong case that it is time for “an unconditionality paradigm” to emerge and argues that this could be anchored in Universal Basic Income (UBI). This is an important text for anyone wishing to re-think contemporary social policy.’ -- Neil Howard, University of Bath, UK
Table of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction to Unconditional 1 The meaning of unconditionality 2 Social policy regimes 3 Is unconditional giving possible? 4 Arguments for unconditionality 5 Arguments for unconditionality in healthcare and education 6 Some of the arguments for unconditionality in income maintenance 7 More of the arguments for unconditionality in income maintenance 8 Arguments against unconditionality 9 A trajectory: snapshots in history 10 Quite simply, unconditionality works 11 The ethics of unconditionality 12 Prospects for unconditionality Bibliography Index
