Basic income in the United States: Redefining citizenship in the liberal state

Almaz Zelleke

Review of Social Economy, 2005, vol. 63, issue 4, 633-648

Abstract: This paper examines citizenship-based arguments for work-conditioned welfare and basic income. I argue that the most common citizenship-based justifications for work requirements—the paternalistic and civic republican arguments—are flawed because of their selectivity, and that the only defensible citizenship-based justification for work requirements is the socialist model, which enforces work requirements universally on all. I offer as a liberal alternative a radically pluralist notion of citizenship, with a kind of universal economic suffrage at its core, to justify an unconditional basic income in the US.

Keywords: basic income; guaranteed minimum income; workfare; citizenship; welfare; work (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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