Describe and Comment on the New Rights Ideology of Social Welfare? to What Extent Do You Think It Affects the Development of Social Welfare in Hong Kong and Why?

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Topic 2: Describe and comment on the New Rights ideology of social welfare? To what extent do you think it affects the development of social welfare in Hong Kong and why? Introduction In Essays on the Welfare State written by R. Titmuss in 1959, welfare is defined as ‘all collective intervention to meet certain needs of individuals and or to serve wider interest of society may now be broadly grouped into … categories of welfare’. There are many different models of social welfare proposed by various social researchers in the last century. For instance, V. George and P. Wilding, in 1976, proposed four: the anti-collectivist, the reluctant-collectivist, the Fabian socialist and the Marxist-structural model. The New Right (or neo-liberalism, neo-conservatism) is an anti-collectivist ideology. The New Right ideology became popular in the 1970s and 1980s due to the economic difficulties in the 1970s and the expansion of public spending in welfare states since 1960s. The dominance of the New Right exerted enormous effects on social and economic policies all over the world, with no exception to Hong Kong, which was under British rule. In the following parts, more on the New Right ideology is studied and its effect of the welfare development in Hong Kong will be examined. Description of the New Right ideology To start with, there are some characteristics of anti-collectivist suggested by V. George and P. Wilding. They support free market economy and are against government intervention in welfare provision. Great emphasis is put on self-effort and welfare is only available to the very needy in society. Similar to these, the beliefs shared by all neo-liberals stated by David G. Green in 2003 in The Student's Companion to Social Policy are as followed. First, neo-liberals go for competitive economy instead of a Page 1 planned economic system being directed by the

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