Author : Harold L. Wilensky
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 30,10 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520028005
Monograph on the determinants of public expenditure for social security and welfare in affluent societys - explores the interplay of affluence, economic system, political system and welfare state ideology, and considers the effect of social structure on divergent spending patterns, particularly in the OECD countries. Bibliography pp. 139 to 147.
Author : Victor George
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 23,2 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780415051019
First Published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Gary Taylor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,66 MB
Release : 2006-12-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0230214037
This book introduces students to the diversity of theoretical perspectives on welfare, both illuminating the distinctiveness of each ideology and highlighting important continuities in thought. It goes on to illustrate how these theories are reflected in and challenge the development of welfare policy.
Author : Peter Beresford
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 34,17 MB
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1447360494
This book examines for the first time the exclusionary nature of prevailing political ideologies. Bringing together theory, practice and the relationship between participation, political ideology and social welfare, it offers a detailed critique of how the crucial move to more participatory approaches may be achieved.
Author : Victor George
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 26,53 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
A revised edition of the standard text on the principles underlying social welfare provision (first published in 1973, second edition 1985).
Author : David Garland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 49,5 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199672660
This Very Short Introduction discusses the necessity of welfare states in modern capitalist societies. Situating social policy in an historical, sociological, and comparative perspective, David Garland brings a new understanding to familiar debates, policies, and institutions.
Author : S. Kumlin
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 22,47 MB
Release : 2004-07-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349528172
This study investigates the extent to which personal welfare state experiences affect general political orientations and attitudes. What are the political effects when a person is discontent with some aspect of, say, the particular health services or the public kindergartens that she has been in personal contact with? Do they lose faith in the welfare state or in leftist ideas about large-scale state intervention in society? Do they take their negative experiences as a sign that the political system and its politicians are not functioning satisfactorily? Will their inclination to support the governing party drop? And if so, how strong are the political effects of personal welfare state experiences compared to those of other, more well-known, explanatory factors? Addressing these and other questions, this study develops a theoretical framework that incorporates insights from a multitude of research traditions, including research on the welfare state, voting behaviour, social psychology, rational choice theory, political psychology, and institutional theory. The framework is tested empirically using Swedish primary survey data collected under the auspices of the 1999 West Sweden SOM Survey, and the 1999 Swedish European Parliament Election Study.
Author : John Clarke
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,33 MB
Release : 1997-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803976122
This original analysis of the creation of new state forms critically examines the political forces that enabled `more and better management' to be presented as a solution to the problems of the welfare state in Britain. Examining the micro-politics within public service, the authors draw links between politics, policies and organizational power to present an incisive and dynamic account of the restructuring of social welfare. Clarke and Newman expose the tensions and contradictions in the managerial state and trace the emergence of new dilemmas in the provision of public services. They show that these problems are connected to the recurring difficulties in defining `the public' that receives these services. In partic
Author : Gosta Esping-Andersen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 16,25 MB
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0745666752
Few discussions in modern social science have occupied as much attention as the changing nature of welfare states in western societies. Gosta Esping-Andersen, one of the most distinguished contributors to current debates on this issue, here provides a new analysis of the character and role of welfare states in the functioning of contemporary advanced western societies. Esping-Andersen distinguishes several major types of welfare state, connecting these with variations in the historical development of different western countries. Current economic processes, the author argues, such as those moving towards a post-industrial order, are not shaped by autonomous market forces but by the nature of states and state differences. Fully informed by comparative materials, this book will have great appeal to everyone working on issues of economic development and post-industrialism. Its audience will include students and academics in sociology, economics and politics.
Author : Francis G. Castles
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 12,76 MB
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 019162828X
The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State is the authoritative and definitive guide to the contemporary welfare state. In a volume consisting of nearly fifty newly-written chapters, a broad range of the world's leading scholars offer a comprehensive account of everything one needs to know about the modern welfare state. The book is divided into eight sections. It opens with three chapters that evaluate the philosophical case for (and against) the welfare state. Surveys of the welfare state 's history and of the approaches taken to its study are followed by four extended sections, running to some thirty-five chapters in all, which offer a comprehensive and in-depth survey of our current state of knowledge across the whole range of issues that the welfare state embraces. The first of these sections looks at inputs and actors (including the roles of parties, unions, and employers), the impact of gender and religion, patterns of migration and a changing public opinion, the role of international organisations and the impact of globalisation. The next two sections cover policy inputs (in areas such as pensions, health care, disability, care of the elderly, unemployment, and labour market activation) and their outcomes (in terms of inequality and poverty, macroeconomic performance, and retrenchment). The seventh section consists of seven chapters which survey welfare state experience around the globe (and not just within the OECD). Two final chapters consider questions about the global future of the welfare state. The individual chapters of the Handbook are written in an informed but accessible way by leading researchers in their respective fields giving the reader an excellent and truly up-to-date knowledge of the area under discussion. Taken together, they constitute a comprehensive compendium of all that is best in contemporary welfare state research and a unique guide to what is happening now in this most crucial and contested area of social and political development.
