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Privileged or exploited council tenants? The discursive change in Conservative housing policy from 1972 to 1980
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Jacobs, KA and Kemeny, J and Manzi, T, Privileged or exploited council tenants? The discursive change in Conservative housing policy from 1972 to 1980, Policy and Politics, 31, (3) pp. 307-320. ISSN 0305-5736 (2003) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2003, Policy Press. Definitive version available online at https://www.policypress.org.uk/journals/policy_politics/
DOI: doi:10.1332/030557303322034965
Abstract
The process of social construction in which competing and sometimes contradictory definitions contend with one another plays a decisive part in policy making. Justifications for policy intervention often require a narrative identifying villains or victims to delineate creatively a 'social problem' that needs to be addressed by appropriate measures. This article shows how contrasting political and media representations of council tenants in the 1960s and 1970s provided the emotive justifications for two distinct policies: 'Fair Rents' and the 'Right to Buy'. The article concludes that more attention should be paid to the way that the successful mobilisation of bias legitimises policy interventions.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Research Division: | Studies in Human Society |
| Research Group: | Policy and Administration |
| Research Field: | Social Policy |
| Objective Division: | Law, Politics and Community Services |
| Objective Group: | Community Service (excl. Work) |
| Objective Field: | Community Service (excl. Work) not elsewhere classified |
| Author: | Jacobs, KA (Professor Keith Jacobs) |
| ID Code: | 26655 |
| Year Published: | 2003 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 7 |
| Deposited By: | Sociology and Social Work |
| Deposited On: | 2003-08-01 |
| Last Modified: | 2010-05-14 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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