Beyond Entitlement: The Social Obligations of Citizenship

by Lawrence M. Mead

Book Overview

Mead's timely and closely reasoned analysis makes a strong intellectual and moral case for a more authoritative welfare policy. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Board book
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0029208904
• ISBN13: 9780029208908
• Release Date: December 1985
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

This Book Started a Revolution

Mead's Beyond Entitlement broke the old politics of welfare, where the left cried for more money for welfare while the right barked for less. Mead shifted the argument to the question of citizen obligation, as in, "what ought be expected of those who receive welfare?" Asking this question broke the political gridlock and opened the doors for welfare reform. His view can be called big government conservatism, which holds that the able-bodied must work but insists that government must provide support (like day care) to enable welfare recipients to hold work.