Conditional citizens? welfare rights and responsibilities in the late 1990s

In Britain the relationship between welfare rights and responsibilities has undergone change. A new welfare 'consensus' that emphasizes a citizen ship centred on notions of duty rather than rights has been built. This has allowed the state to reduce its role as a provider of welfare and also defend a position in which the welfare rights of some citizens are increas ingly conditional on those individuals meeting compulsory responsibili ties or duties. This concentration on individual responsibility/duty has undermined the welfare rights of some of the poorest members of society. Three levels of debate are considered within the article: academic, pol itical and 'grassroots'. The latter is included in an attempt to allow some 'bottom up' views into what is largely a debate dominated by social sci entists and politicians

One year on The 'new politics' and Labour

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A new era for the non-rulers too : West European communist parties, Perestroika and the revolution in Eastern Europe

The revolutions in central and eastern Europe have naturally focused attention on the collapse of the ruling parties of these regimes and the regimes themselves. This has tended to overlook the impact of this collapse on the non-ruling communist parties of western Europe. This article attempts to fill this gap by providing an analysis of what has happened to west European communism and the family of west European communist parties (WECPs) as a consequence of the collapse of the ruling communist regimes in central and eastern Europe