Public participation, responsive regulation, and other policy formulations are intended to draw governments down from their ivory towers and into engagement with the people. However, they paint at best, a hazy picture of who “the people” are. This superficial representation is felt, among other collectives, by people living in poverty, who not only face hunger, often accompanied by poorer health and lower life expectancy, but whose social exclusion typically goes unrecognized by the authorities. The legal framing of poverty—and, as a result, states' policy approaches to its alleviation—focuses on the material core, representing a very thin conceptualization that fails to address the social dimension. Furthermore, practical avenues for incorporating citizens' views into lawmaking—which might enrich understanding—are lacking when it comes to people in poverty. Combined with a blatantly hegemonic stance, the resulting ignorance around poverty and “the poor” generates welfare laws that are woefully out of touch with reality, and legislative thinking that perpetuates, rather than alleviates, poverty. This paper seeks to make a twofold contribution: (i) to demonstrate this situation with a deep empirical inquiry into the legislative process of one legal provision within the Israeli welfare law regime, juxtaposed against qualitative field-research findings and (ii) to introduce the inventive and groundbreaking “poverty-aware” paradigm, constructed in social-work discourse, to illuminate and explain the empirical findings and point to potential procedural–institutional reform, to pave the way for poverty-aware legislation.

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参与福利立法——一种关注贫困的范式

公众参与、响应式监管和其他政策制定旨在将政府从象牙塔中拉下来，与人民接触。然而，他们充其量只是描绘了一幅关于“人民”是谁的模糊图画。在其他集体中，生活在贫困中的人们感受到了这种肤浅的表现，他们不仅面临饥饿，往往伴随着较差的健康和较低的预期寿命，而且他们的社会排斥通常不被当局承认。贫困的法律框架——以及因此而导致的国家扶贫政策——侧重于物质核心，代表了一个非常薄弱的​​概念化，无法解决社会层面的问题。此外，纳入公民的实际途径 当涉及到贫困人口时，缺乏对立法的看法——这可能会加深理解。再加上公然的霸权立场，由此产生的对贫困和“穷人”的无知产生了与现实严重脱节的福利法，以及延续而不是减轻贫困的立法思维。本文力图做出双重贡献：(i) 通过对以色列福利法制度中一项法律规定的立法过程进行深入的实证调查来证明这种情况，并与定性实地研究结果并列，以及 (ii) 介绍在社会工作话语中构建的创造性和开创性的“贫困意识”范式，阐明和解释实证研究结果并指出潜在的程序制度改革，