Timothy J. Gaffaney

This book identifies and examines the way in which New Right liberal theorists in the United States have employed a conception of liberty in their attack on welfare provision for the poor, and contrasts that concept with liberal justifications for public welfare that are grounded in equality.

A compelling examination of the meanings of citizenship and their relationship with the question of public welfare provision in the United States today. Public debates on the question of public assistance in the United States reflect long-standing disputes within liberal democratic theory on the meanings of liberty, equality, and citizenship. In F