Normative Problems in the Conditional Model of Social Protection

Gottfried Schweiger is Senior Scientist at the Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research of the University of Salzburg. He published widely in political philosophy.Facundo García Valverde is a researcher in philosophy at the National Research Center of Argentina (CONICET) and is Professor of the University of Buenos Aires. He has published widely in political philosophy and, specifically, in the normative foundations of social protection.

• Introduction.- Part I The relational costs of the Conditional Paradigm.- When Is Distrust Problematic in Conditional Cash Transfers?.- The Symbolic Dimension of Governing the Poor: Practices, Discourses, and Ethics Around the “Undeserving” Recipient in Italy.- Part II Normative justifications of conidtionalities.- A Republican Justification for Social Programs to Fight Poverty.- Justifying the Conditionality of Social Protection Programs: The Case of the Philippines’ Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps).- A Conditional Evaluation of Brazil’s Bolsa Família Conditionalities.- The “theoretical substance of welfare-states”: social protection, cash transfers, and conditionality.- Family poverty and dignity. The question of conditional social benefits.- Conditional Welfare, Active Labor-Market Policy, and Contributive Justice.- Redistribution with(out) stigmatisation. Conditional Cash Transfers vs Universal Basic Income.- Does UBI Diminish Unfreedom and Poverty? Some Difficulties in Making a Case for It.- Conditionality, Reciprocity, and Capabilities.