TY  - JOUR
AB  - Deals with the relationship between economic recession and moral
change. Taking the case of The Netherlands, argues that the recession
resulted in an increase of the expenditure for social security and at
the same time diminished tax income. In the attempt to reduce the budget
deficit, relations of social solidarity, which constitute the moral
order, had to be restructured as well. This operation has not been
performed by power conflict between government and claimants or workers
as happened, for example, in Britain during the Thatcher government. The
major instrument in bringing down the budget deficit was the eroding of
the legitimacy of the claims of the socially weak segments of society.
This requires the manipulation of public morality and only the
successful manipulation enables the cuts which the government wishes to
make.
VL  - 20
IS  - 12
SN  - 0306-8293
DO  - 10.1108/03068299310045794
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/03068299310045794
AU  - Gowricharn Ruben
PY  - 1993
Y1  - 1993/01/01
TI  - Remodelling the Moral Order in The Netherlands
T2  - International Journal of Social Economics
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 50
EP  - 64
Y2  - 2024/05/12
ER  -