The Welfare state :  a reader / 
 Welfare state reader 
edited by Christopher Pierson and Francis G. Castles. 
 - xi, 403 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Selection of extracts from books and periodicals. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Acknowledgements --  Editors' Note --  Editors' Introduction --  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 --  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 --  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.  I.  II.  III. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0745622534 0745622526 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>99036410 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Welfare state<br/>Public welfare<br/>Comparative government
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JC479.  / W44 2002 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>330.126