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Author Klein, Steven, 1987- author.

Title The work of politics : democratic transformations in the welfare state / Steven Klein
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 204 pages)
Contents Domination and the welfare state : direct, structural, and abstract -- From calculation to domination : Max Weber on democracy and the welfare state -- From value to world : Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, and the politics of world-making -- From world to emancipation : Jürgen Habermas, domination, and the welfare state revisited -- Conclusion: Democratic theory and the future of the welfare state
Summary "The Work of Politics: Making a Democratic Welfare State examines the democratic and participatory potential of political struggles over social welfare institutions. Engaging with the thought of Max Weber, Hannah Arendt, and Jürgen Habermas, as well as the comparative political economy of the welfare state, the book develops a critical vision of welfare institutions as worldly mediators between instrumental economic imperatives and collective political action. Welfare institutions, the book argues, provide crucial political avenues for democratic social movements challenging structures of domination in society. The book then illustrates the power of this approach by examining the history of German workers responding to Bismarck's social laws and Swedish feminists challenging gender domination in the post-war welfare state. Together, these theoretical and historical arguments answer fundamental concerns in democratic theory-and most centrally, of how democratic aspirations relate to state institutions and entrenched structures of social domination"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Welfare state.
Democracy.
Power (Social sciences)
Democracy
Power (Social sciences)
Welfare state
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020012514
ISBN 9781108778398
1108778399
9781108809733
1108809731