‘Welfare Conditionality’ by the two eminent housing and social policy scholars Beth Watts and Suzanne Fitzpatrick is an excellent addition to the ‘Key Ideas’ series of Routledge. In a very engaging and comprehensible manner, the book takes a deep dive into the matter of what welfare conditionality is, how it evolved over time, who is subjected to it, and what its personal but also societal consequences are. ‘Welfare Conditionality’ is the result of a 5-year long research project funded by the ESPRC in the UK. The book espouses an effortless and well-informed interdisciplinary approach, combining legal, moral philosophical, social policy, as well as behavioural perspectives on conditionality. Another core strength of the book is that although it is not empirical as such, international evidence is used to support theoretical reasoning illustratively. The book is a relatively short read of 150 pages split into an introduction, conclusions and five core chapters:

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Beth Watts 和 Suzanne Fitzpatrick 对“福利条件”的回顾

两位杰出的住房和社会政策学者 Beth Watts 和 Suzanne Fitzpatrick 的“福利条件”是对 Routledge 的“关键思想”系列的极好补充。这本书以一种非常引人入胜且易于理解的方式深入探讨了福利条件是什么、它如何随着时间的推移而演变、谁受制于它，以及它对个人和社会的影响是什么。“福利条件”是由英国 ESPRC 资助的为期 5 年的研究项目的结果。这本书支持一种轻松且见多识广的跨学科方法，结合了法律、道德哲学、社会政策以及关于条件的行为观点。这本书的另一个核心优势是，虽然它不是经验主义的，但国际证据被用来说明性地支持理论推理。