Decomposition of planning-state coalitions drove welfare’s cashification

Evidence

Behind the successes of a new basic income stood the slow splintering and decomposition of the developmental coalitions that had undergirded older planning states. The slow death of developmentalist democracy in the Global South and North proved one of the strongest drives of the cashification of welfare through the 1990s and 2000s. As citizens moved out of the civil society organizations and states increasingly stepped down from their interventionist role, politicians turned to public relations experts to win office. Poverty was definitively conceptualized as a simple lack of money, not as inadequate access to services. — Anton Jäger and Daniel Zamora Vargas, Welfare for Markets, 375

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Erosion of agrarian and producerist political languages enabled modern cash transfers — Anton Jäger and Daniel Zamora Vargas, Welfare for Markets: A Global History…, 61; Foucault held that people love work yet work is not their essence — Anton Jäger and Daniel Zamora Vargas, Welfare for Markets: A Global History…, 980; The Welfare State functions as capital’s flexible adjustment mechanism, not labor’s victory — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 205 (+1 more)