Volume III · Managed Decline
Welfare, Wealthfare, and Social Control in Advanced Democracies
Research preview · manuscript under review
Examines deindustrialization, welfare conditions, housing, and carceral institutions alongside tax advantages and asset support, asking whether they expand mobility or manage insecurity.
Research programme: Siddhartha Harsh Wardhan · Preview updated
The research question
When do assistance and asset-support policies expand mobility, and when do they manage insecurity?
How it connects to Volume III
Places welfare conditions and support for asset owners within a shared inquiry into access, mobility and administrative power.
Evidence and limits
Compare eligibility, take-up, sanctions and long-term outcomes. Claims of social control are hypotheses requiring institutional evidence; they do not establish the intentions of every administrator.
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