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Book SynopsisThough the “two Wests,” Europe and the United States, differ in crucial respects, they share a common history of social rights. In
Democracy and the Welfare State, leading historians and social scientists rethink this history in light of global transformations of the economic order and the onslaught of neoliberalism and right-wing populism.
Trade ReviewLinking questions of democracy to those of social provision through the generative concept of the "Two Wests," Kessler-Harris, Vaudagna, and their contributors offer a primer on the crisis of the welfare state, the grip of austerity politics, and the rise of right-wing nationalism that mark our times. An important contribution! -- Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Uneasy Promise of the Welfare State, by Alice Kessler-Harris 1. Historians Interpret the Welfare State, 1975-1995, by Maurizio Vaudagna Part I. Democracy and the Welfare State in Europe and the United States 2. Reconciling European Integration and the National Welfare State: A Neo-Weberian Perspective, by Maurizio Ferrera 3. Democracy After the Welfare State: An Interview, by Ira Katznelson Part II. Varieties of Retrenchment 4. Privatization and Self-Responsibility: Patterns of Welfare-State Development in Europe and the United States Since the 1990s, by Christian Lammert 5. Paradise Lost? Social Citizenship in Norway and Sweden, by Gro Hagemann 6. Social Citizenship in the U.S. Affordable Care Act, by Beatrix Hoffman 7. In the Shadow of Employment Precarity: Informal Protection and Risk Transfers in Low-End Temporary Staffing, by Sebastien Chauvin 8. From the Welfare State to the Carceral State: Whither Social Reproduction?, by Mimi Abramovitz Part III. Gender, the Family, and Social Provision 9. Family Matters: Social Policy, an Overlooked Constraint on the Development of European Citizenship, by Chiara Saraceno 10. Transforming Gendered Labor Policies in Sweden and the United States, 1960s-2000s, by Ann Shola Orloff 11. Breadwinner Liberalism and Its Discontents in the American Welfare State, by Robert O. Self Part IV. Possibilities of Resistance 12. Nationalism's Challenge to European Citizenship, Democracy, and Equality: Potential for Resistance from Transnational Civil Society, by Birte Siim 13. Poor-People Power: The State, Social Provision, and American Experiments in Democratic Engagement, by Marisa Chappell 14. Grassroots Challenges to Capitalism: An Interview, by Frances Fox Piven Selected Bibliography Contributors Index
