The Welfare state : a reader / edited by Christopher Pierson and Francis G. Castles.
Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford, UK : Malden, Mass : Polity Press ; Blackwell Publishers, 2000Description: xi, 403 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0745622534
- 0745622526
- Welfare state reader [Cover title]
- 330.126
- JC479. W44 2002
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Selection of extracts from books and periodicals.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgements -- Editors' Note -- Editors' Introduction -- I. Approaches to Welfare -- The First Welfare State? -- The Welfare State in Historical Perspective -- Citizenship and Social Class -- Universalism versus Selection -- What is Social Justice? -- The Fiscal Crisis of the State -- Some Contradictions of the Modern Welfare State -- The Power Resources Model -- The Meaning of the Welfare State -- The Two Wars against Poverty -- The New Politics of the New Poverty -- Feminism and Social Policy -- The Patriarchal Welfare State -- II. Debates and Issues -- Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism -- The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism -- Towards a European Welfare State? -- Is the European Social Model Fragmenting? -- Social Welfare and Competitiveness -- Negative Integration: States and the Loss of Boundary Control -- Challenges to Welfare: External Constraints -- National Economic Governance -- Social Security around the World -- On Averting the Old Age Crisis -- Intergenerational Conflict and the Welfare State: American and British Perspectives -- The New Politics of the Welfare State -- Welfare State Retrenchment Revisited -- III. The Futures of Welfare -- High-Risk Strategy -- The Implications of Ecological Thought for Social Welfare -- Basic Income and the Two Dilemmas of the Welfare State -- The Welfare State and Postmodernity -- Positive Welfare -- Subject Index -- Name Index.
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