Volume III · Managed Decline
Social Class and Welfare
Research preview · manuscript under review
Proposes an equity-first framework for a post-industrial republic, connecting welfare architecture with ownership, opportunity, and social citizenship.
Research programme: Siddhartha Harsh Wardhan · Preview updated
The research question
How could welfare design connect immediate security with access to ownership?
How it connects to Volume III
Uses welfare socialism as an open analytical question about collective provision, dignity and social citizenship. It links the volume’s household and institutional perspectives.
Evidence and limits
Specify eligibility, financing, implementation and distributional effects. Ownership proposals require comparison with cash support and public services; no preferred model is treated as validated.
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