Since the 1980s, Neo-Liberalism Has Dominated Policy Making in Nz. What Are the Core Values Appealed to Under the Neo-Liberal Ideology?
Since the 1980s, neo-liberalism has dominated policy making in NZ.
What are the core values appealed to under the neo-liberal ideology?
Since the 1980s, neo-liberalism has dominated policy making in NZ.
What are the core values appealed to under the neo-liberal ideology?
New Zealand has been known to the world as one of the most socially innovative countries. Up until the 1960s, New Zealand recorded high levels of GDP per capita in the world. It was ranked 6th among OECD in 1950 (Duncan and Worrall 2000, 283). Such economical prosperity as the base, the country 's social services were greatly expanded that by 1942 they already brought about the most comprehensive protection of any country in the free world against the impact of illness, unemployment, invalidity, old age, death and other hazards (McHenry 1951, 48). But from 1970 to 1990 GDP per capita declined steadily due to slow economic growth and by the early 1990s New Zealand was approximately 20% below the OECD average (NZ AHEAD). That was when the New Zealand government started to consider market oriented alternative to state control. The last decade has seen an abrupt shift from Keynesian welfarism to neoliberalism as the basis for state polices. This essay will identify the core beliefs of neoliberals and their general views on welfare state. Then it will discuss how those views affected both various social policies and social work within New Zealand since the 1980s.
The concept of neoliberalism has, during the past twenty years or so, become quite wide spread in some political and academic debates. Several scholars have even stressed that we live in an age of neoliberalism and that it is the dominant ideology shaping the world today (Saad-Filho and Johnston 2005, 1). The concept, neoliberalism, suggests its own definition: It is a revival of liberalism, and the recovery of a lost tradition of liberal, political thought. Liberalism has undoubtedly been the most powerful ideology in
What are the core values appealed to under the neo-liberal ideology?
Since the 1980s, neo-liberalism has dominated policy making in NZ.
What are the core values appealed to under the neo-liberal ideology?
New Zealand has been known to the world as one of the most socially innovative countries. Up until the 1960s, New Zealand recorded high levels of GDP per capita in the world. It was ranked 6th among OECD in 1950 (Duncan and Worrall 2000, 283). Such economical prosperity as the base, the country 's social services were greatly expanded that by 1942 they already brought about the most comprehensive protection of any country in the free world against the impact of illness, unemployment, invalidity, old age, death and other hazards (McHenry 1951, 48). But from 1970 to 1990 GDP per capita declined steadily due to slow economic growth and by the early 1990s New Zealand was approximately 20% below the OECD average (NZ AHEAD). That was when the New Zealand government started to consider market oriented alternative to state control. The last decade has seen an abrupt shift from Keynesian welfarism to neoliberalism as the basis for state polices. This essay will identify the core beliefs of neoliberals and their general views on welfare state. Then it will discuss how those views affected both various social policies and social work within New Zealand since the 1980s.
The concept of neoliberalism has, during the past twenty years or so, become quite wide spread in some political and academic debates. Several scholars have even stressed that we live in an age of neoliberalism and that it is the dominant ideology shaping the world today (Saad-Filho and Johnston 2005, 1). The concept, neoliberalism, suggests its own definition: It is a revival of liberalism, and the recovery of a lost tradition of liberal, political thought. Liberalism has undoubtedly been the most powerful ideology in
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