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1 online resource (xii, 220 pages) |
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Foreword; R. Plant -- From Citizen Solidarity to Self-Serving Inequality; J. Hayward -- PART I: PUBLIC INTERVENTION: THE ROLES OF STATE AND SOCIETY -- The Rationale for the Retreat From the Welfare State; N.O'Sullivan -- Expanding the Role of Civil Society; E. Monaghan -- Multicultural Society and the Welfare State; B. Parekh -- PART II: VICISSITUDES OF DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS AND PROCESSES -- Constitutional Change and the Tensions of Liberal Democracy; P. Norton -- The Welfare State and its Discontents; M. Beech -- Bureaucracy: Disregarding Public Administration; E. Page -- PART III: INTRUSIVE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MARKET FORCES -- From Financing Social Insurance to Insuring Financial Markets: The Socialisation of Risk and the Privatisation of Profit in an Age of Irresponsibility; S. Lee & R. Woodward -- The Environmental Challenge to Nation States: From Limits to Growth to Ecological Modernisation; R. Wurzel -- Inequality, Social Policy and the State Welfare Regime: the Case of Brazil; M. Doctor -- PART IV: THE RESIDUAL WARFARE STATE -- Human Welfare in a World of States: Reassessing the Balance of Responsibility; J. Morris & N. Wheeler -- Free-Riding? The Cost of Defence: The United Kingdom, France and the United States of America; C. Martin -- Conclusion: Remaining the Welfare State?; J. Connelly |
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Foreword / Raymond Plant -- From citizen solidarity to self-serving inequality : social solidarity, market economy and welfare statecraft / Jack Hayward -- Public intervention : the roles of state and society -- The rationale for the retreat from the welfare state / Noel O'Sullivan -- Expanding the role of civil society in Britain and beyond / Elizabeth Monaghan -- Multicultural society and the welfare state / Bhikhu Parekh -- Vicissitudes of democratic institutions and processes -- Constitutional change and the tensions of liberal democracy / Philip Norton -- The British welfare state and its discontents / Matt Beech -- Bureaucracy : disregarding public administration / Edward Page -- Intrusive national and international market forces -- From financing social insurance to insuring financial markets : the socialisation of risk and the privatisation of profit in an age of irresponsibility / Simon Lee and Richard Woodward -- The environmental challenge to nation states : from limits to growth to ecological modernisation / Rü̈diger Wurzel -- Inequality, social policy and state welfare regimes in developing countries : the case of Brazil / Mahrukh Doctor -- The residual warfare state -- Human welfare in a world of states : reassessing the balance of responsibility / Justin Morris and Nicholas Wheeler -- Free-riding? : the cost of defence : the United Kingdom, France and the United States of America / Christopher Martin -- Conclusion : remaining the welfare state? / James Connelly |
| Summary |
The post-war decades of prosperity and increased public expenditure on the comprehensive provision of public welfare services to all citizens went into reverse from the 1970s. The capacity to satisfy the demand for socially protective public services declined, along with the will to impose the redistributive taxation to pay for them. The regression from the high standards achieved is examined in this volume by considering the shifting balance between state and societal intervention in people's lives. The contributors also assess the ways in which governments have adapted their aims and practices to deal politically and administratively with their changed roles. The intrusive impact of national and international market and environmental pressures is analyzed along with the interstate fate of human welfare and the way it competes with military expenditure for increasingly scarce resources. Managing orderly retreat has been a challenge to statecraft and is comparatively evaluated |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Welfare state -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st century
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Social stratification -- Great Britain
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Public Policy
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Social Work
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services.
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Social policy
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Social stratification
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Welfare state
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public policy.
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Central government policies -- United Kingdom, Great Britain.
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Comparative politics -- United Kingdom, Great Britain.
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Social welfare & social services -- United Kingdom, Great Britain.
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Politics and Government.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Social policy -- 21st century
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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dissertations.
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Academic theses.
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Thèses et écrits académiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Connelly, James, Dr.
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Hayward, Jack Ernest Shalom
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| LC no. |
2011052940 |
| ISBN |
9780230349230 |
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0230349234 |
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9781280681448 |
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1280681446 |
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9786613658388 |
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6613658383 |
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