| Description |
202 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
Government, policy and politics |
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Government, policy and politics series
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| Contents |
1. When too much social justice is never enough (Gary Johns) 2. Dimensions of the welfare state (Julie Novak) 3. Are equal ocieties better societies? (Peter Saunders) 4. When to stop government programs (Cassandra Wilkinson) 5. Aboriginal programs: closing the gap is not socially just (Wesley Aird). 6. Child protection: dysfunctional parents damage their children (Jeremy Sammut) 7. Community development: churches and charities (Ruth Limkin) 8. Fair dismissal (Grace Collier) 9. Foreign aid: road to hell filled with good intentions (Peter Urban) 10. Preventable disease: whose responsibility? (Terry Barnes) 11. Mutual obligation (Asher Judah) 12. Helping the real refugees (Mirko Bagaric) 13. Tax and transfer: shrewd politics (Sinclair Davidson) |
| Summary |
For decades, Social Justice has been trumpeted as the means of assisting the "downtrodden". Rarely have any of its proponents proved that it is other than an egalitarian ideology, without an analytical base. Assisting the "poor" may be a "good thing" but only if programs to aid them are effective and only if others are not made poor in the process. Too often, either the policy prescription or the analyses of the social problem, or indeed both, are blinded by the ideology of social justice. The purpose of the book is to assist those wedded to the principles of social justice, of whom there are many, to understand that helping the poor is not straightforward. There are many counterintuitive schemes to help the poor; they have little to do with the right to income transfers. Indeed, most people have a non-egalitarian conception of fairness, based on merit and effort, with equality running a poor third. In these cases, social justice is seen as a form of insurance, not a right. Social justice often overplays its hand; this book is a chance to find better ways to help the poor |
| Analysis |
Australian |
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Policy making |
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Social groups |
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Social issues & services |
| Notes |
Edited by, and includes chapter by, Gary Johns, Parliamentary Author |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Audience |
Tertiary/Undergraduate, General |
| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Government policy.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations.
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Closing the Gap (Government program)
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Poor -- Government policy -- Australia.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions.
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Social justice -- Australia.
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Social policy -- Australia.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Social policy.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100478
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| Author |
Johns, Gary.
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Australian Catholic University. Public Policy Institute
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| LC no. |
2012452621 |
| ISBN |
9781921421624 |
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