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CASEpaper

Benefit `myths'? The accuracy and inaccuracy of public beliefs about the benefits system

Ben Baumberg Geiger

There is a widespread assumption that increasingly negative public attitudes to the benefits system are due to ‘myths’ held by the British public. However, there is little prior research on whether the public believe the...Read more...

17 October 2016

CASEpaper

Developing and agreeing a capability list in the British context: What can be learnt from social survey data on 'rights'?

Polly Vizard

The paper examines what can be learnt about the ‘valuation’ of freedoms and opportunities (or capabilities) using a general population social survey data source on values. On the assumption that rights can be understood ...Read more...

November 2010

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Perceptions of Redistribution: Report on exploratory qualitative research

Alan Hedges

This paper represents the results of a small-scale qualitative study, exploring public perceptions of the redistributive effects of taxation and public spending in the UK. Redistribution is not at the top of people’s min...Read more...

March 2005

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Taxation for the Enabling State

John Hills

This paper takes as its starting point Henry Neuburger's injunction that taxation must be seen as a contribution to the maintenance of the welfare state, not as a dead-weight burden. It sets recent developments in the UK...Read more...

August 2000