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The future of the welfare state is, for many people, the key social, economic and political question for the new millennium. Drawing on the very best and most influential of writing on welfare of the past fifty years, and featuring the work of more than thirty key authors, this reader shows how, why and for whom the politics of welfare has attained this newly central status. The book brings together in a single volume texts from a wide range of sources, some of which are now either out of print or difficult to obtain. It includes work from the earliest years of postwar welfare state growth right through to the very latest debates about ageing, competitiveness and globalization. It encompasses representatives of both the most important theoretical approaches to welfare and the very latest comparative empirical research. The final section marks out the terrain on which the next battles for welfare will be fought. Throughout the emphasis is upon welfare debates. The extraordinary range of contrasting opinions and judgements in the volume demonstrate why welfare is such a crucial and contested topic. Selected and edited by two internationally-respected researchers and teachers in the field, The Welfare State Reader is the essential guide to the debate. This book will be of interest to first year undergraduate students and above in social policy and social administration, politics and political theory, sociology and economics.

Table of Contents:
Editors' Note. Editors' Introduction. Part I: Approaches to Welfare. The First Welfare State?: Thomas Paine. 'Classical'The Welfare State in Historical Perspective: Asa Briggs. Citizenship and Social Class: T. H. Marshall. Universalism versus Selection: Richard Titmuss. Perspectives on the Left. What is Social Justice? Commission on Social Justice. The Fiscal Crisis of the State: James O'Connor. Some Contradictions of the Modern Welfare State: Claus Offe. The Power Resources Model: Walter Korpi. Responses from the Right. The Meaning of the Welfare State: Friedrich von Hayek. The Two Wars against Poverty: Charles Murray. The New Politics of the New Poverty: Lawrence M. Mead. Feminism. Feminism and Social Policy: Mary McIntosh. The Patriarchal Welfare State: Carole Pateman. Part II: Debates and Issues. Welfare Regimes. Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism: Gosta Esping-Andersen. The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism: Robert E. Goodin, Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels, Henk-Jan Dirven. A European Welfare State? Towards a European Welfare State?: Stephan Leibfried. Is the European Social Model Fragmenting?: John Grahl and Paul Teague. Competiveness and Globalization: Economic Challenges to the Welfare State. Social Welfare and Competitiveness: Ian Gough. Negative Integration: States and the Loss of Boundary Control: Fritz Scharpf. Challenges to Welfare: External Constraints: M. Rhodes. National Economic Governance: Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson. Demographic and Social Change. Social Security around the World: Estelle James. On Averting the Old Age Crisis: R. Beattie and W. McGillivray. Intergenerational Conflict and the Welfare State: American and British perspectives: Chris Phillipson. Political Challenges to the Welfare State. The New Politics of the Welfare State: Paul Pierson. Welfare State Retrenchment Revisited: Richard Clayton and Jonas Pontusson. Part III: The Futures of Welfare. High-Risk Strategy: Will Hutton. The Implications of Ecological Thought for Social Welfare: Tony Fitzpatrick. Basic Income and the Two Dilemmas of the Welfare State: Philippe van Parijs. The Welfare State and Postmodernity: Kirk Mann. Positive Welfare: Anthony Giddens. Notes. Index.

About the Author :
Christopher Pierson is Professor of Politics at the University of Nottingham and Francis Castles is Professor of Political Science in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University, Canberra.

Review :
While maintaining several original contributions, in this second and updated version of their Welfare State Reader, Pierson and Castles have collated a masterful compendium of classic texts and important recent contributions to the contemporary and comparative analysis of welfare states. Preceded by useful introductions to each section, the volume covers traditional theories and perspectives, evolving debates and new political responses to enduring and recent challenges to maintaining social policy provision at a large scale. The result is an essential and invaluable resource for students, teachers and researchers interested in the development and the future of modern welfare states.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780745622521
  • Publisher: Polity Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0745622526
  • Publisher Date: 27 Jan 2000
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 652 gr


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