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Introducing Universal Credit.
Get PDFIn this chapter, author Paul Spicker interrogates the government's introduction of Universal Credit, a controversial scheme designed to unify various means-tested benefits for people of working age. The scheme brings together six existing benefits: income-related Jobseeker's Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance, Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit, Housing Benefit and Income Support. Spicker argues that analysts of Universal Credit must drill down to the detail of the scheme and the benefits that it covers. He sees defects in 'the concept and design' of the Universal Credit agenda, as there were in previous grand schemes in social policy history. He also sees potential for the benefit system to break down if it cannot prove to be practically viable. Governments, Spicker contends, cannot easily meet the multiple objectives that must be typically met in 'simple' and 'unified' benefit programmes
Spicker, Mattie Lizzie
No full textMax Spicker - son, M. Welsh - son-in-law. Julius T. Spicker - husband.https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-ch-memoranda-1930/1578/thumbnail.jp
Spicker, Julius T.
No full textMattie P. Spicker - wifehttps://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-ch-memoranda-1928/1416/thumbnail.jp
What's wrong with social security benefits?
Get PDFIn this thought-provoking book, Paul Spicker challenges readers to rethink social security benefits in Britain. Putting a case for reform of the system, Spicker argues that most of the criticisms made of social security benefits – that spending is out of control, that it has led to mushrooming dependency, that it fails to get people into work, and that the system is riddled with fraud – are misconceived. Addressing those misconceptions, Spicker assesses the real problems with the system, related to its size, its complexity, the expectation that benefits agencies should know everything, and the determination to ‘personalise’ benefits for millions of people. This stimulating short book is a valuable introduction to social security in Britain and the potential for its reform. This example chapter is a post-peer review, pre-copyedited version of text excerpted of chapter 3 - The real problems
Besprechung: J. Spicker, Über das Verhältnis der Naturwissenschaft zur Philosophie
No full textBESPRECHUNG: J. SPICKER, ÜBER DAS VERHÄLTNIS DER NATURWISSENSCHAFT ZUR PHILOSOPHIE
Besprechung: J. Spicker, Über das Verhältnis der Naturwissenschaft zur Philosophie (2) (-
Thinking collectively: social policy, collective action and the common good.
Get PDFIn this book, well-respected author Paul Spicker lends a complementary voice to his Reclaiming Individualism, reviewing collectivism as a dimension of political discourse. Breaking down his analysis to examine collectivism through substantive, moral and methodological lenses, he reviews a series of arguments for cooperative effort, solidarity and collective responsibility. Taking a dispassionate and methodical approach, the author explores what collectivism means in social policy and what value it offers to the field. This example excerpt is a post-peer review, pre-copyedited version from chapter 1 - Substantive collectivism: collectivism in practice
Mr. & Mrs. Spicker
No full textBlack and white studio image of a couple standing together. She wears a dark jacket with small buttons and a wide collar. Her hair is pulled back loosely from her face. He wears a dark suit and necktie and has a white mustache. His hair is parted to the side and combed back.[back] Mr. & Mrs. F. Spicker. Harness Maker, Hillsboro, Oregon, late 1890
Spicker, Maxwell Pryse, Jr., 1920-1985 (SC 2794)
Get PDFFinding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2794. Letters of Maxwell P. Spicker, Jr., to his parents in Louisville, Kentucky, written during his U.S. Army service in World War II. He writes of his training and leisure activities at Fort Riley, Kansas, Seattle, Washington and Gainesville, Texas, and confidentially to his father of his request for an overseas assignment. Includes photographs of Spicker and fellow soldiers
Principles of social welfare: an introduction to thinking about the welfare state.
Get PDFThis book is about social policy and administration, which is a field of study mainly concerned with 'social welfare' and the 'social services'. Social policy is not a self-contained academic discipline. The book attempts to draw material together and to offer insights into a set of problems from a variety of perspectives. The source material has been taken from politics, sociology, philosophy and economics, as well as from the literature on social policy in its own right; there are occasional references to work from history, psychology, anthropology or law. But it is not possible to deal with each topic in depth in a way that would satisfy the demands of each discipline, and usually it is not even desirable. In its original form, the material may have been only obliquely relevant to social policy; the point that is of interest is how it reflects on the issues in the study of social welfare. For that very reason, the book should be of some value to people who approach it from variousdisciplines. It will not give them a comprehensive statement of the debate in their own subject, but it should offer an insight into other areas of study which can be applied to their own particular interests, and a range of illustrations from the field of social welfare. This is an Arabic translation of the author's original book SPICKER, P. 2013. Principles of social welfare: an introcution to thinking about the welfare state. Aberdeen: Paul Spicker
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