Title Democracy and the welfare state / edited by Amy Gutmann

Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1988

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 290 p.) Series Studies from the Project on the Federal Social Role Studies from the Project on the Federal Social Role. Contents Cover Page -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Socializing the Welfare State -- 2. The Moral Basis of the Democratic Welfare State -- 3. Is There (or Should There Be) a Right to Work? -- 4. Capitalism, ""Property-Owning Democracy,"" and the Welfare State -- 5. Distributing Public Education in a Democracy -- 6. Representatives in the Welfare State -- 7. Race, Class, Power, and the American Welfare State -- 8. Democracy and the New Deal Party System -- 9. Immigration and the Welfare State 10. The Patriarchal Welfare State -- 11. Citizenship and Welfare -- Notes on Contributors -- Index Summary The essays in this volume explore the moral foundations and the political prospects of the welfare state in the United States. Among the questions addressed are the following: Has public support for the welfare state faded? Can a democratic state provide welfare without producing dependency on welfare? Is a capitalist (or socialist) economy consistent with the preservation of equal liberty and equal opportunity for all citizens? Why and in what ways does the welfare state discriminate against women? Can we justify limiting immigration for the sake of safeguarding the welfare of Americans? How can elementary and secondary education be distributed consistently with democratic values? The volume confronts powerful criticisms that have been leveled against the welfare state by conservatives, liberals, and radicals and suggests reforms in welfare state programs that might meet these criticisms. The contributors are Joseph H. Carens, Jon Elster, Robert K. Fullinwider, Amy Gutmann, Jennifer L. Hochschild, Stanley Kelley, Jr., Richard Krouse, Michael McPherson, J. Donald Moon, Carole Pateman, Dennis Thompson, and Michael Walzer Analysis Bradley, Tom Foundation Programs Inequality Invalid Care Allowance (Britain) Janowitz, Morris Kennedy, Robert Kingdon, John Medicaid and Medicare Ryan, Alan accessions tax (Meade) aptitudes as resources business as election issue civil and legal rights consumption, behavioral patterns difference principle dispersed inequalities environment and equality envy test gift relationship guaranteed jobs programs highway metaphor of citizenship human investment, welfare as ideology of equal opportunity job disappearance jury duty leisure, enjoyment of liberty, fair value of moral rights negative income tax overtime work, effects of political justice political rights Notes Papers presented at a seminar held at Princeton University and sponsored by the Project on the Federal Social Role Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Public welfare -- United States. Democracy. Welfare state. USA. Samhälle. Sociala förhållanden. Policy och politik. Democracy Public welfare Welfare state United States Form Electronic book Author Gutmann, Amy Project on the Federal Social Role (U.S.) LC no. 2021700941 ISBN 9780691217956 0691217955

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