Leaning on the fragile

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Leaning on the fragile

• Long term care conference
• Amsterdam, April 29th

Margo Trappenburg
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Traditional welfare stateswere based on passive
solidarity
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New policy

• Welfare state retrenchment
• From passive to active solidarity
• Deinstitutionalization

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Advantages for the fragile

• Privacy is nice
• School results improve

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Disadvantages for the fragile

• Loneliness
• Free choice? Collective action problems
• Life for those who stay behind may get worse

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For former tax payers

• Attractive ideology for left and right
• Redistributive effect taking advantage of the
  willing
• Redistributive effect burdens the
  socioeconomically disadvantaged
• Inconsistent with other government policy

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Conclusion

• It is high time to reconsider deinstitutionalizati
  on / active solidarity
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