A resource‐based perspective on the regulatory welfare state: Social security in the United Kingdom

David P. Horton and Gary Lynch‐Wood

Regulation & Governance, 2024, vol. 18, issue 3, 953-969

Abstract: The article provides a resource‐based perspective on the polymorphic regulatory welfare state. It shows regulatory and fiscal tools applied in the UK social security sector place demands on claimants' resources (i.e., possessions, labor and data) and simultaneously alter behavior in relation to these resources. The analysis exposes an operation that generates new and increasing resource pressures for claimants, providing a deeper conceptualization of a regulatory welfare state. It offers a new perspective on why regulatory and fiscal arrangements perpetuate existing inequalities and suggests an increase in welfare problems as the regulatory welfare state intensifies resource pressures.

Date: 2024
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