Critically evaluate one theoretical approach to poverty reduction (Social Democratic approach).
social Democratic Approach to Welfare
- Social Democratic and New Right are the two main, and polarised, approaches to welfare
- the social democratic approach originated in 1940s, based on principles of universalism with cradle to grave support
- Social democrats such as Tawney (1931) argue the welfare state should adopt a ‘strategy of equality’ by redistributing wealth from the rich to the poor reducing social marginalization –through progressive taxation
