The moral economy of welfare states
Subtitle: Britain and Germany compared
By: by Steffen Mau.
Series: Routledge/EUI studies in the political economy of welfare -- 5
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: Welfare economics.; Welfare state.; Great Britain -- Social policy.; Germany -- Social policy.
Description: "The Moral Economy of Welfare States investigates why people are willing to support an institutional arrangement that realizes large-scale redistribution of income between social groups of society."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [208]-231) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Self-interest and pocket-book attitudes; title: Beneficial involvement; title: Rising demands and ungovernability; title: Legitimation crisis: value for meaning; title: The welfare backlash and a rational opposition; title: Entrenched interests and 'varieties of capitalism'; title: Policy reforms: designing institutions for knaves; title: The admixture of motives: broadening the perspective; title: Preference formation beyond self-interest; title: Institutions: material incentives and social norms; title: The moral economy of welfare state institutions; title: The homo reciprocus; title: Policy designs and the repertoire of motives; title: Summary; title: An analytical framework; title: Welfare institutions and public attitudes; title: Survey data and methods; title: The state of welfare; title: A comparative framework; title: The welfare legacy in Britain; title: Laissez-faire and new liberalism; title: Moving towards a Beveridgean social service state; title: A welfare consensus, social rights and symptoms of crisis; title: The neo-conservative era; title: The activating welfare state; title: The welfare legacy in Germany; title: Conservative authoritarianism; title: The social market economy; title: Party responses to institutional drawbacks; title: The impact of unification and new pressures on the welfare state; title: Welfare regimes and their moral economies: some preliminary thoughts; title: The logic of popular support for welfare schemes and their objectives; title: Redistribution in our heads: givers and takers; title: Interests and interpretations; title: Assessing the redistributive impact; title: A legitimate agenda for redistribution?; title: Paying taxes: value for money and the fairness issue; title: Burdensome taxation and the disapproval of redistribution; title: Conclusion.