Social Policy: Theoretical Discourse and Ideologies in New Zealand

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Social policy aims to enhance people's welfare and father is especially concerned for the
well being of those who experience some form of marginalization or disadvantage in the society.
The role of social policy can be associated to the economic social and political factors present in
the society. The quest for co-ordination is balance coherence of policies should take into
consideration the fact that the notions related to social policy along with its role in the
improvement and progress have transformed over the years for the indicating the complexities in
order to look for transparency on the approaches to social finding poverty alleviation as well as
equity (Spolander et al., 2014). The rule of social policy significantly refers to the procedures
guidelines and interventions for the transformation preservation all creation of living conditions
that the conducive to human well being. Social policy however is referred to the study of social
services social work and the Welfare of the state however in generality intense to look at the
notion of social welfare along with its association to politics and Society as a whole (Brady &
Bostic, 2015). The essay intends to study the various theoretical discourse related to social policy
by further focusing on ideologies like neo liberalism and new conservatism that concentrates on
the concept of social policy by evaluating the issues and controversies related to the development
of social policy in New Zealand.
It is to be noted that the last few decades have witnessed several societies to experience
political economic and cultural transformation that have altered the communities through the
utilization of less regulated models of capitalism, repairing of welfare state alterations to the
structure along with the responsibility of organizations in the public as well as private sectors (Di
Cesare et al., 2013). The ideology of neo liberalism can be defined as a theory of political,
economic practices that suggest that human welfare can be most effectively developed by
invigorating individual entrepreneurial autonomy and expertise within an institutional outline

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characterized by well established private property possessions and free market trades. At this
juncture it is significant to recognize, that neo liberalism has considerable influence on the social
work or the concept of social policies over recent decades. However, the role of social policy has
been dominated to the demands of managerialism with its focal point being based on setting
social policy makers to complete bureaucracy in order to ration resources and at the same time
evaluate relative risks and challenges.
The early phase of 1980s witnessed that neo liberalism has surrounded the political
landscape of western democracy and remove the demolished social establishment, inequality,
economic deficiency privatization and individualism (Miletzki & Broten, 2017). However it is
further to note that this recent movement has embraced advanced technologies and a transition
from state direct to market power and further from community responsibility to private liability
further expressing a classic liberal tradition related to individualism (. However, it is important to
recognize that the case of New Zealand shed light on the realities of neo liberalism in the
utilization of neoliberal policies considered as a new colonizing double movement. However
double movement presupposes Polanyian hope that the liberalization of markets suggests its own
protective counter (Robertson & Hill, 2014). Though neo liberalism in New Zealand is not only
referred as the triumph of economic capital over productive capitalism rather it is regarded as a
victory of that portion of the capitalist class has funded in transnational forms of capital increase
over the fraction that has been invested in independent or local growth.
Furthermore, the Keynesian Welfare Model effectively indulge in free and universal
health systems with the purpose of accomplishing equality of opportunity while ascertaining the
distribution of healthy and well educated labourers needed for a productive economy. However
in the domain of neo liberalism the New Zealand health system has undergone transformations

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with commercial lines through fundamental decentralization, cost productivity along with user
pay expenditures for the marginalized sections. Regardless to incessant support for global
factors of the welfare state New Zealand has been favouring selective social programs whereby
the aged and impoverished have been regarded as more justifiable in comparison to the lower
level income families with the former thus, encouraging more consistent acknowledgement from
the public (Hermann, 2014). However at this juncture it must be noted that the Keynesian model
witnessed a definite impact of government in guaranteeing the ones in need had a standardized
way of living.
In the context of new conservatism, the significant conservatives should reconsider their
perceptions in accordance to the fundamental notion that individuals not governments have the
authority to exercise and further determine the itinerary of their own lives (Bockman, 2013).
However several conservatives particularly within New Zealand impressed issues such as school
preferences whereby offering authorization to parents related to the preference order method of
schooling that is most productive for their child demands and requirements (Apple, 2013).
Further to this, there has been several vital conservative positions of which many has been
associated with the essential principles of individual preferences have been continuing on the
factors such as property authority, Independence from association and the freedom of speech.
However when the context of gay marriage arises several conservatives have been witnessed to
remain inconsistent or avoid to pay any consideration towards it. Argumentative discourses
based on marriage within the constitutional monarchy has been possessed those who anticipate to
pimples their perceptions and lotions onto the others (Rottenberg, 2014). However in spite of
processing significant, traditionalist notions some within the constitutional party have taken to
support for the notable liberal or oppressive approach. However, such forms of insincerity or