Public Expenditure and Social Policy
Author : Alan Walker
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 14,15 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Alan Walker
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 14,15 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Rudolf Klein
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 47,51 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Economic policy
ISBN : 9780950331720
Author : Christopher G. Faricy
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 10,96 MB
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0871544407
Despite high levels of inequality and wage stagnation over several decades, the United States has done relatively little to address these problems—at least in part due to public opinion, which remains highly influential in determining the size and scope of social welfare programs that provide direct benefits to retirees, unemployed workers or poor families. On the other hand, social tax expenditures—or tax subsidies that help citizens pay for expenses such as health insurance or the cost of college and invest in retirement plans—have been widely and successfully implemented, and they now comprise nearly 40 percent of the spending of the American social welfare state. In The Other Side of the Coin, political scientists Christopher Ellis and Christopher Faricy examine public opinion towards social tax expenditures—the other side of the American social welfare state—and their potential to expand support for such social investment. Tax expenditures seek to accomplish many of the goals of direct government expenditures, but they distribute money indirectly, through tax refunds or reductions in taxable income, rather than direct payments on goods and services or benefits. They tend to privilege market-based solutions to social problems such as employer-based tax subsidies for purchasing health insurance versus government-provided health insurance. Drawing on nationally representative surveys and survey experiments, Ellis and Faricy show that social welfare policies designed as tax expenditures, as opposed to direct spending on social welfare programs, are widely popular with the general public. Contrary to previous research suggesting that recipients of these subsidies are often unaware of indirect government aid—sometimes called “the hidden welfare state”—Ellis and Faricy find that citizens are well aware of them and act in their economic self-interest in supporting tax breaks for social welfare purposes. The authors find that many people view the beneficiaries of social tax expenditures to be more deserving of government aid than recipients of direct public social programs, indicating that how government benefits are delivered affects people’s views of recipients’ worthiness. Importantly, tax expenditures are more likely to appeal to citizens with anti-government attitudes, low levels of trust in government, or racial prejudices. As a result, social spending conducted through the tax code is likely to be far more popular than direct government spending on public programs that have the same goals. The first empirical examination of the broad popularity of tax expenditures, The Other Side of the Coin provides compelling insights into constructing a politically feasible—and potentially bipartisan—way to expand the scope of the American welfare state.
Author : Ludger Schuknecht
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,43 MB
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108496237
Up-to-date, holistic and comprehensive discussion of public expenditure, its history, value for money, risks and remedies.
Author : Nancy Birdsall
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 41,62 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Desarrollo social
ISBN :
In most countries it is easy to identify reallocations of public spending for social programs that would improve efficiency and simultaneously improve the distribution of income and better serve the poor. The authors suggest why these reallocations are difficult but not impossible to bring about.
Author : James Midgley
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 32,55 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780761915614
Comprises 33 papers grouped under five themes: The Nature of social policy; The History of social policy; Social policy and the social services; The Political economy of social policy; and International and future perspectives on social policy.
Author : Finola Kennedy
Publisher :
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 30,93 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Pamphlet presenting a statistical analysis of public expenditure resource allocation in respect of education (educational expenditure), health, housing, and social security and welfare in Ireland - includes references and statistical tables.
Author : Dominique Van de Walle
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 14,83 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
The book offers a critical assessment of the state of current knowledge on the distributional impacts of public spending for developing and transition countries. It focuses on the distribution of benefits from spending categories that have traditionally been seen as pro-poor, including education and health expenditures, food subsidies, cash transfers, and public employment schemes.
Author : Mr.David Coady
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 19,9 MB
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1451982135
This paper shows that increasing government social expenditures can make a substantive contribution to increasing household consumption in China. The paper first undertakes an empirical study of the relationship between the savings rate and social expenditures for a panel of OECD countries and provides illustrative estimates of their implications for China. It then applies a generational accounting framework to Chinese household income survey data. This analysis suggests that a sustained 1 percent of GDP increase in public expenditures, distributed equally across education, health, and pensions, would result in a permanent increase the household consumption ratio of 11⁄4 percentage points of GDP.
Author : Victor George
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 28,87 MB
Release : 2023-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000876446
First published in 1984, The Impact of Social Policy analyses and evaluates the effects of social policy on British society in the post-war period. The focus is on the consequences of social policy and the authors differentiate clearly between the objectives of social policy and what it actually achieves. What governments and individuals claim that social policy does, and what happens in practice, are not always one and the same thing. George and Wilding examine the impact of social policy in a coherent and logical way, looking at the social, the economic and the political aspects. They conclude that social services are conducive to economic growth, and that they are an important instrument for enhancing social well-being although they do not reduce socio-economic inequalities to any substantial degree. They also point out that although social services buttress political stability, they have not prevented a political crisis in the welfare state. This book will be of interest to students of sociology, public policy, political science, and economics.