@article{10.1057/978-1-349-91891-1,
      recid = {764075},
      author = {Beechey, Susanne N.,},
      title = {Social security and the politics of deservingness /},
      number = {10.1057/978-1-349-91891-1},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      abstract = {This book seeks to understand the politics of  deservingness for future Social Security reforms through an  interpretive policy analysis of the 2005 Social Security  privatization debates. What does it mean for politics and  policymaking that Social Security recipients are widely  viewed as deserving of the benefits they receive? In the  2005 privatization debates, Congress framed Social Security  in exclusively positive terms, often in opposition to  welfare, and imagined their own beloved family members as  recipients. Advocates for private accounts sought to  navigate the politics of deservingness by dividing the "we"  of social insurance to a "me" of private investment and a  "them" of individual rate of return in order to justify the  introduction of private accounts into Social Security.  Fiscal stress on the program will likely bring Social  Security to the policy agenda soon. Understanding the  politics of deservingness will be central to navigating  those debates. Susanne N. Beechey is Assistant Professor of  Politics, Whitman College, USA.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/764075},
}