This book discusses and illustrates how deservingness can be approached as a discursively and rhetorically accomplished phenomenon having varied empirical conse
This important book builds a bridge between the literature on popular welfare deservingness and social welfare policies. It examines the relationship between th
This book addresses new perspectives on the perceived popular deservingness of target groups of social services and benefits, offering new insights and analysis
Who deserves to get what and what should they have to do in order to get it? These are questions that societies have grappled with since antiquity, and they con
Public policy in the United States is marked by a contradiction between the American ideal of equality and the reality of an underclass of marginalized and disa