The Double Crisis of the Welfare State and What We Can Do About It [electronic resource] /
Taylor-Gooby, P.author.
This book analyses the immediate challenges from headlong cuts, root-and-branch restructuring and the longer-term pressures from population ageing. It demonstrates that a more humane and generous welfare state that will build social inclusiveness is possible and shows how it can be achieved.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; List of Abbreviations; 1 The Double Crisis of the Welfare State; 2 Why Add Restructuring to Cutbacks? Explaining the New Policy Direction; 3 Addressing the Double Crisis: The Welfare State Trilemma; 4 Responding to the Trilemma: Affordable Policies to Make Popular Mass Services More Inclusive; 5 Making Generous and Inclusive Policies Politically Feasible; Bibliography; Index
This book analyses the immediate challenges from headlong cuts, root-and-branch restructuring and the longer-term pressures from population ageing. It demonstrates that a more humane and generous welfare state that will build social inclusiveness is possible and shows how it can be achieved.
Welfare state.
Social policy.
Public finance.
Education and state.
Social service .
Politics of the Welfare State.
Social Policy.
Public Economics.
Education Policy.
Sociology, general.
Social Care.