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https://doi.org/10.25272/j.2147-7035.2017.5.3.01

The Effectiveness of Welfare Benefits on the Quality of Life: The United Kingdom

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  • Siyaset, Ekonomi ve Yönetim Araştırmaları Dergisi

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  • 2017
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https://doi.org/10.25272/j.2147-7035.2017.5.3.01

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This article focuses on the assesment of living standards to evaluate whether or not the provision of welfare benefits makes a difference to the lives of recipients. Data were collected in the province of Glasgow, in the United Kingdom, between 2015 March and 2016 February, as a part of a project named “The Analysis Of Public Welfare Benefits Efficiency”. This article is based on a theoretical approach derived from Amartya Sen’s concept of ‘functionings’ and ‘capabilities’ and Martha Nusbaum’s ‘central human functional capabilities list’ which comprises -life, bodily health, senses-imagination and thought, emotion, practical reason, affiliation, other species, play, material and political control over one’s environment, -which was used to asses wellbeing. This article pays particular attention to the question how far the provision of welfare benefits enables benefit recipients to achieve their capabilities with particular reference to the capabilities of bodily health, senses-imagination and thought, emotions, affiliation, play, and control over one’s environment.
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Abstract (Original Language): 
Bu çalışma, sosyal yardımların faydalanıcılarının yaşam kalitesine etkisini araştırmayı amaçlamaktadır. Çalışma 2015 Mart-2016 tarihleri arasında Glasgow’da (Birleşik Krallık) yürütülen “Kamu Temelli Sosyal Yardımların Etkinliği Analizi” başlıklı projenin, sosyal yardımların faydalanıcılarının yaşam kalitesine etkisine ilişkin elde edilen bulguları içermektedir. Mülakat tekniğinin kullanıldığı çalışma, Amartya Sen’in ‘yapabilirlik’ ve ‘işlevsellik’ kavramları ve Amarya Sen’in teorisinden hareketle Martha Nussbaum tarafından sunulan yapabilirlik listesi çerçevesinde şekillendirilmiştir. Evrensel nitelikteki yapabilirlik listesi; bedensel sağlık, bedensel bütünlük, algılama, hayal etme ve düşünme, duygular, pratik akıl, üyelik, doğal çevre ile kurulan ilişkiler, oyun-eğlence ve kişinin çevresi üzerindeki kontrolü başlıklarını içermektedir. Çalışma, ‘özelde’ sosyal yardımların sağlanmasının yardımlardan faydalananların bedensel sağlık, algılama-hayal etme ve düşünme, duygular, üyelik, oyun-eğlence ve kişinin çevre üzerindeki kontrolüne ilişkin yapabilirliklerini ne ölçüde başarabildikleri sorusuyla ilgilenmektedir.
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