The withering of the welfare state
Subtitle: regression
By: edited by James Connelly and Jack Hayward
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780230337145
Subjects: Social stratification; Welfare state; Social policy; History
Table of contents: title: Foreword by raymond plant; title: 1) from citizen solidarity to self-serving inequality / Jack Hayward; title: Public intervention : the roles of state and society; title: The rationale for the retreat from the welfare state / Noel O'Sullivan; title: Expanding the role of civil society / Elizabeth Monaghan; title: Multicultural society and the welfare state / Bhikhu Parekh; title: Vicissitudes of democratic institutions and processes; title: Constitutional change and the tensions of liberal democracy / Philip Norton; title: The welfare state and its discontents / Matt Beech; title: Bureaucracy : disregarding public administration / Ed Page; title: Intrusive national and international market forces; title: From financing social insurance to insuring financial markets : the socialisation of risk and the privatisation of profit in an age of irresponsibility / Simon Lee and Richard Woodward; title: The environmental challenge to nation states : from limits to growth to ecological modernisation / Rudi Wurzel; title: Inequality, social policy and the state welfare regime : the case of Brazil / Mahrukh Doctor; title: The residual warfare state; title: Human welfare in a world of states : reassessing the balance of responsibility / Justin Morris and Nicholas Wheeler; title: Free-riding? : the cost of defence : the United Kingdom, France and the United States of America / Christopher Martin; title: Conclusion : remaining the welfare state? / James Connelly.