Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

〔英訳〕ユニバーサル・ベーシック・インカムと社会的権力
Casassas, David, Unconditional Freedom: Universal Basic Income and Social Power. Tr. by J. Wark. 240 pp. 2024:1 (Pluto Pr., UK) <702-378>
ISBN 978-0-7453-4863-6 paper ¥5,760.- (税込) GB￡ 19.99 *

'A carefully argued case for basic income as central to a democratic transformation of society' Carole Pateman, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, UCLA 'This path-breaking work throws new light on how we understand work, freedom, and emancipation in today's highly precariatised and insecure world ... A must-read' Sarath Davala, Chair, Basic Income Earth Network As the rich get richer and take more of our wealth, our democratic freedoms are also in danger. The elite are gaining large profits without contributing back to society, hollowing out our public services and institutions and preventing the vast majority of us from living our lives to the fullest. In Unconditional Freedom, David Casassas argues that for us to live freely, we need unconditional resources such as Universal Basic Income. In a sharp and lucid analysis, he shows that UBI would not only liberate us from the nightmare of social exclusion and precarious employment, it would also increase our bargaining power as individuals and collectives, opening doors to democratise our lives.

不平等の時代における再分配の支援
Cavaille, Charlotte, Fair Enough?: Support for Redistribution in the Age of Inequality. (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) 300 pp. 2023 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <702-379>
ISBN 978-1-00-936606-9 hard ¥20,174.- (税込) GB￡ 70.00 *
ISBN 978-1-00-936604-5 paper ¥6,625.- (税込) GB￡ 22.99 *

Fair Enough? proposes and tests a new framework for studying attitudes toward redistributive social policies. These attitudes, the book argues, are shaped by at least two motives. First, people support policies that increase their own expected income. Second, they support policies that move the status quo closer to what is prescribed by shared norms of fairness. In most circumstances, saying the "fair thing" is easier than reasoning according to one's pocketbook. But there are important exceptions: when policies have large and certain pocketbook consequences, people take the self-interested position instead of the 'fair' one. Fair Enough? builds on this simple framework to explain puzzling attitudinal trends in post-industrial democracies including a decline in support for redistribution in Great Britain, the erosion of social solidarity in France, and a declining correlation between income and support for redistribution in the United States.

Gazso, Amber, Substances, Welfare, and Social Relations: Breaking Stigma, Pursuing Hope. 304 pp. 2023:11 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <702-380>
ISBN 978-1-4875-4677-9 hard ¥16,830.- (税込) US$ 75.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4875-4753-0 paper ¥8,290.- (税込) US$ 36.95 *

Substances, Welfare, and Social Relations uses intimate, complex portraits to tell the stories of people who have lived some part of their life course while using or recovering from using substances (such as alcohol or illicit or prescription drugs) while being part of a family and experiencing poverty. Through these multifaceted stories, layered with a critical analysis of welfare policy, the book probes the deeply entrenched stigma of living with addiction and with low income. Amber Gazso argues that (1) addiction is part of everyday life; (2) if we believe that people are not their addictions, then stigmatizing addiction has no place in society; and (3) destigmatizing addiction and providing better, more imaginative programs and services invites and supports actionable hope. Reflecting on qualitative data, both narrative interviews and policy discourse, Substances, Welfare, and Social Relations illuminates how stigmas can be overturned through a collective praxis of hope.

ベーシック・インカムの人気－投票からの証明
Laenen, Tijs, The Popularity of Basic Income: Evidence from the Polls. (Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee) 347 pp. 2023:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <702-381>
ISBN 978-3-031-29351-1 hard ¥31,599.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of the popularity of basic income among the general public. Using data from a wide array of public opinion polls conducted in different countries and years, the book first charts popular support for the ideal-typical version of basic income, broadly defined as a "periodic cash payment unconditionally delivered to all on an individual basis, without means-test or work requirement". On top of that, the book maps popular support for the many other, differently designed varieties of basic income that are part of real-world proposals, pilots, and experiments - including, for example, a participation income, a negative income tax, and a stakeholder grant. By investigating how and why support for different types of basic income varies across countries, evolves over time, and differs between individuals with different characteristics, this book offers crucial information about the political constituencies that can be mobilized in favor of (or against) the introduction of basic income, thereby contributing to our knowledge on the political feasibility of basic income.

親の依存とアメリカの社会政策
Stein-Roggenbuck, Susan, Caring for Mom and Dad: Parent Dependency and American Social Policy. 264 pp. 2023:11 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <702-382>
ISBN 978-1-00-920328-9 hard ¥13,830.- (税込) GB￡ 47.99 *

Throughout the twentieth-century, the United States implemented social policies targeting the needs of dependent parents - parents who were no longer able to work but lacked sufficient financial resources to support themselves. These parent dependency policies either encouraged or required family members, particularly adult children, to provide support as an alternative to government benefits. Debates over how best to support aging parents centered on conceptualizations of dependency and the moral obligations family owed their parents. Measures of dependency often inhibited aging Americans' access to benefits they needed, focusing instead on ensuring that they were, in fact, dependent and that other family resources were not available. Susan Stein-Roggenbuck highlights this understudied aspect of the modern US welfare state, highlighting the limited support provided to aging parents and the hardship they and their adult children endured in the efforts to minimize public expenditures.

Zhao, Jiaying / Datta, Saugato / Soman, Dilip (eds.), Cash Transfers for Inclusive Societies: A Behavioral Lens. (Behaviorally Informed Organizations) 264 pp. 2023:10 (Rotman-UTP Pub., CN) <702-383>
ISBN 978-1-4875-4517-8 hard ¥8,066.- (税込) US$ 35.95 *

The latest title in the Behaviourally Informed Organizations series offers practical advice on how best to successfully design, deliver, and evaluate efficient cash transfer programs, with a view to alleviating poverty. While much progress has been made in reducing poverty worldwide - especially in the pre-pandemic era - it is fair to say that an unacceptably large proportion of the world's people still live in poverty. Cash Transfers for Inclusive Societies sheds light on the widely prevalent cash transfer programs. The book asks these central questions: What is the state of the art in the development of welfare programs? What do we know works in these programs and what does not? How can an understanding of behavioral science better inform the design, delivery, and evaluation of welfare programs? The latest title in the Behaviourally Informed Organizations series, the book develops a nuanced framework for how governments, practitioners, and society in general should design cash transfer programs to improve inclusivity, reduce poverty, and improve equality. It draws on field experiments and case studies to showcase past successes, while also building frameworks and developing prescriptive advice that we can give to practitioners who are looking to design a behaviorally informed cash transfer program. With contributions from leading academics as well as seasoned practitioners, Cash Transfers for Inclusive Societies presents a new model to policymakers to study and shift the discourse on poverty alleviation from purely economic factors to also behavioral ones.