Creating Target Publics for Welfare Policies

Chapter 1 The Making of Target Publics for Welfare Policies. From Targeting Practices to Resistances of Governed People

Chapter 2 “Organize and Defend Yourself”. The Invention of the Middle Class Before Fascism: Actors, Discourse and Institutions

Chapter 3 How Central Is the Middle? Middle Class Discourses and Social Policy Design in Germany

Chapter 4 Frame, Funnel, Deter: The Mechanisms of Behavioral Targeting

Chapter 5 Targeting by Numbers. The Uses of Statistics for Monitoring French Welfare Benefit Recipients

Chapter 6 The Paradoxical Place of Psychiatry in the Administration of Disability: Dealing with the Reframing of Autism from a Psychiatric to an Educative Issue in the Concrete Making of a Target Public

Chapter 8 From Groups to Individuals? The Making of Target Publics in the French Administration of Low-Rent Housing

Chapter 9 How to Identify and Select Citizens Entitled to Social Housing in a Postcolonial Situation? Administrative Agents Dealing with Changing Bureaucratic Norms in a French Overseas Administrative Department

Chapter 10 Perspectives on Target Publics and Welfare State Transformations. A Few Proposals from Political Sociology