The Waning of the Welfare State
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: April 30, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9781560004059
Subjects: Social issues; Welfare & benefit systems; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Conservatism; Current Affairs; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Europe; International Relations - General; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Political Science / International Relations; Political; Public Affairs & Administration; Civil society; Democracy; Europe, Western; History; Social Policy; Welfare state
Description: Today, "welfare" represents a complex mix of services covering health, education, welfare, the arts, leisure, and social security. Anton C. Zijderveld is of the opinion that Europe's vast, comprehensive welfare state is becoming leaner and meaner, heading down a more sober path toward decentralization and deregulation, which only, but not merely, secures order for its citizens and shields society's vulnerable.

As the millennium approaches, Zijderveld believes Europe is experiencing a cultural renaissance and a socioeconomic and political reformation in which the market will flourish and civil society will prosper.