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Z WARSZTATÓW BADAWCZYCH
Discursive construction of local social citizenship
— between claims of universal provision
and demands of more civic duties
1
Institute of Social Policy
Warsaw University
Publication date: 2020-05-26
Problemy Polityki Społecznej 2016;32:67-84
KEYWORDS
ABSTRACT
The goal of this article is to analyse the manner in which social citizenship is constructed
in local (municipal) political discourse. It analyses how in two Polish municipalities, varying in terms of social policy expenditures level, council members attribute social rights
(in a broad meaning) and civic duties to the inhabitants of the city and to local target
populations. According to the main research hypothesis, the universalist narrative of social
citizenship will dominate in the municipality with a more generous local social policy,
whereas in the city with a more stringent social policy, discourse promoting conditionality
in social policy will be more visible.
Analysis of council sessions transcripts shows, however, that it is the city with a relatively
generous social policy in which universalistic and paternalist narratives, as well as those
promoting conditionality, coexist. The conclusion linked to social construction of target
populations approach states that the more generous and complex local social policy is, the
higher the variety of often contradictory discourse in social citizenship. The conclusion linked
to social citizenship theories states that at the local level universalism and conditionality
based on the idea of civic contribution coexist in communitarian narratives.
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