Abstract
Since 1999 New Zealand has seen the election of a series of Labour‐led governments committed to a social policy framework of social development. This article outlines the background to the emergence of social development, tracing its antecedents in the neo‐liberal administrations of the 1990s. The social development framework consists of commitments around economic development, human capital development, family development and politico‐administrative redevelopment. Taking the position that reforms must be seen as concrete policy mechanisms and as discursive cues and conceptual apparatus, the article offers a comparison and critique. First, it identifies the continuities and contrasts with the previous neo‐liberal framework of minimal social policy; and second, it begins the process of critically interrogating the potential citizenship implications of social development.
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