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Leading Article: Community Care as an Alternative to State Welfare
Author(s) -
Marsland David
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
social policy and administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.972
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1467-9515
pISSN - 0144-5596
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9515.1996.tb00553.x
Subject(s) - interpretation (philosophy) , state (computer science) , welfare state , welfare , complement (music) , sociology , law and economics , political science , positive economics , economics , law , computer science , philosophy , linguistics , politics , biochemistry , chemistry , algorithm , complementation , gene , phenotype
This paper challenges prevailing notions of community and community care. It exposes some of the confusions associated with current thinking and offers a more realistic interpretation, drawing upon the roots of the idea of community. By this standard, genuine community care is to be regarded as an alternative to state welfare, which it might serve to replace or complement.