TY - BOOK AU - Pierson,Christopher AU - Castles,Francis Geoffrey TI - The Welfare state: a reader SN - 0745622534 AV - JC479. W44 2002 U1 - 330.126 PY - 2000/// CY - Oxford, UK, Malden, Mass PB - Polity Press, Blackwell Publishers KW - Welfare state KW - Public welfare KW - Comparative government N1 - 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 ER -