| Description |
xi, 403 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgements. -- Editors' Note. -- Editors' Introduction to the Second Edition. -- Part I Approaches to Welfare. -- The First Welfare State? (Thomas Paine). -- ?Classical?. -- The Welfare State in Historical Perspective. (Asa Briggs). -- Citizenship and Social Class. (T.H. Marshall). -- Universalism versus Selection. (Richard Titmuss). -- Perspec tives on the Left. -- What is Social Justice? (Commission on Social Justice). -- The Fiscal Crisis of the State. (James O?Connor). -- Some Contradictions of the Modern Welfare State. (Claus Offe). -- The Power Resources Model. (Walter Korpi). -- Responses from the Right. -- The Meaning of the Welfare State. (Friedrich von Hayek). -- The Two Wars against Poverty. (Charles Murray). -- The New Politics of the New Poverty. (Lawrence M. Mead). -- Feminism. -- Feminism and Social Policy. (Mary McIntosh). -- The Patriarchal Welfare State. (Carole Pateman). -- Part II Debates and Issues. -- Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. (Gosta Esping-Anderson). -- Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism or More? A State-of-the-Art Report. (Wil Arts and John Gelissen). -- Globalization. -- Globalization, Economic Change and the Welfare State: The ?Vexatious Inquisition of Taxation? (Colin Hay). -- Negative Integration: States and the Loss of Boundary Control. (Fritaz Scharpf). -- A Race to the Bottom. (Francis G. Castles). -- Europaenization. -- Welfare-State Regress in Western Europe: Politics, Institutions, Globilization, and Europeanization. (Walter Korpi). -- Deliberative Governance and EU Social Policy. (Paul Teague). -- The Open Method of Co-ordination and the European Welfare State. (Damian Chalmers and Martin Lodge). -- Demographic Challenges to the Welfare State. -- Population Ageing: An Unavoidable Future. (David Coleman). -- The Evolving Concept of ?Retirement?: Lokking Forward to th Year 2050. (James H. Schulz). -- The Global Retirement Crisis. (Richard Jackson). -- Gender Equity in Theories of Fertility Transition. (Peter McDonald). -- Political Challenges. -- The New Politics of the Welfare State. (Paul Pierson). -- Beyond Retrenchment: Four Problems in Current Welfare State Research and One Suggestion on How to Overcome Them. (Bruno Palier). -- Part III The Futures of Welfare. -- A New Worl of Welfare. -- Positive Welfare. (Anthony Giddens). -- The Politics of the New Social Policies: Providing Coverage against New Social Risks in Mature Welfare States. (Giuliano Bonoli). -- Beyond Universalism and 2articularism: Rethinking Contemporary Welfare Theory. (Nick Ellison). -- Ways Ahead?. -- A Welfare State for the Twenty-First Century. (Gosta Esping-Andersen). -- Investing in the Citizenship and the State under New Labour. (Ruth Lister). -- Basic Income and the Two Dilemmas of the Welfare State. (Philippe van Parjis). -- Index |
| Summary |
This book draws on the writing on welfare of the past 50 yrs and features the work of more than 30 authors and shows how, why and for whom the politics of welfare has assumed a position as the key social, economic and political issue. The emphasis is on welfare debates and coverage ranges from the postwar era to the current and the future |
| Analysis |
International comparisons |
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Liberalism |
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Overseas item |
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Poverty |
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Social justice |
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Social policy |
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Unemployment |
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Welfare state |
| Notes |
First published in 2000 by Polity Press in association with Blackwell Publishers Ltd |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Welfare state.
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| Author |
Castles, Francis G. (Francis Geoffrey), 1943-
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Pierson, Christopher.
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| LC no. |
99036410 |
| ISBN |
0745622526 |
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0745622534 (paperback) |
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