Description

Book Synopsis
The Welfare State Reader has established itself as a vital source of outstanding original research since its original appearance in 2000.

Table of Contents
Editors’ Introduction to the Third Edition

PART I - APPROACHES TO WELFARE
The First Welfare State? Thomas Paine
Section 1: ‘Classical’
The Welfare State in Historical Perspective, Asa Briggs
Citizenship and Social Class, T.H. Marshall
Universalism versus Selection, Richard Titmuss
Section 2: Perspectives on the Left
What is Social Justice? Commission on Social Justice
Some Contradictions of the Modern Welfare State, Claus Offe
Section 3: Responses from the Right
The Meaning of the Welfare State, Friedrich Hayek
The Two Wars against Poverty, Charles Murray
The New Politics of the New Poverty, Lawrence M. Mead
Section 4: Feminism
The Patriarchal Welfare State, Carole Pateman
The Welfare State and Women Power, Helga Maria Hernes

PART II - WELFARE REGIMES UNDER THREAT
Section 1: Trajectories
Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, Gøsta Esping-Andersen
Religion and the Western Welfare State, Philip Manow and Kees van Kersbergen
The New Politics of the Welfare State, Paul Pierson
Section 2: Constraints
Globalization, the Welfare State and Inequality, Duane Swank
The Europeanization of Social Protection: Domestic Impacts and National Responses, Jon Kvist and Juho Saari
Explaining Convergence of OECD Welfare States: a Conditional Approach, Carina Schmitt and Peter Starke
Breaking with the Past? Why the Global Financial Crisis led to Austerity Policies but not to Modernization of the Welfare State, Klaus Armingeon
Section 3: Challenges
Ageing and the Welfare State: Securing Sustainability, Volker Meier and Martin Werding
Very Low Fertility: Consequences, Causes and Policy Approaches, Peter McDonald
Migration, Minorities and Welfare States, Carl-Ulrik Schierup and Stephen Castles
The Politics of the New Social Policies: Providing Coverage against New Social Risks in Mature Welfare States, Giuliano Bonoli

PART III - EMERGING IDEAS, EMERGENT FORMS
Section 1: Emerging Ideas
The Big Society: A New Policy Environment for the Third Sector? Peter Alcock
Diffusing Ideas for After Neoliberalism: The Social Investment Perspective in Europe and Latin America, Jane Jenson
The Governance of Economic Uncertainty: Beyond the ‘New Social Risk’ Analysis, Colin Crouch and Maarten Keune
How Climate Change will Shape the Social Policy Framework, Zahir Sadeque
Basic Income and the Two Dilemmas of the Welfare, State Phillippe van Parijs
Section 2: Emergent Forms
What Adult Worker Model? A Critical Look at Recent Social Policy Reform in Europe from a Gender and Family Perspective, Mary Daly
Beyond Modernization? Social Care and the Transformation of Welfare Governance, Janet Newman, Caroline Glendinning and Michael Hughes
Assessing the Welfare State: The Politics of Happiness, Alexander Pacek and Benjamin Radcliff
Europe’s Post-Democratic Era, Jürgen Habermas

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    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 15/11/2013
    ISBN13: 9780745663692, 978-0745663692
    ISBN10: 0745663699

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    The Welfare State Reader has established itself as a vital source of outstanding original research since its original appearance in 2000.

    Table of Contents
    Editors’ Introduction to the Third Edition

    PART I - APPROACHES TO WELFARE
    The First Welfare State? Thomas Paine
    Section 1: ‘Classical’
    The Welfare State in Historical Perspective, Asa Briggs
    Citizenship and Social Class, T.H. Marshall
    Universalism versus Selection, Richard Titmuss
    Section 2: Perspectives on the Left
    What is Social Justice? Commission on Social Justice
    Some Contradictions of the Modern Welfare State, Claus Offe
    Section 3: Responses from the Right
    The Meaning of the Welfare State, Friedrich Hayek
    The Two Wars against Poverty, Charles Murray
    The New Politics of the New Poverty, Lawrence M. Mead
    Section 4: Feminism
    The Patriarchal Welfare State, Carole Pateman
    The Welfare State and Women Power, Helga Maria Hernes

    PART II - WELFARE REGIMES UNDER THREAT
    Section 1: Trajectories
    Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, Gøsta Esping-Andersen
    Religion and the Western Welfare State, Philip Manow and Kees van Kersbergen
    The New Politics of the Welfare State, Paul Pierson
    Section 2: Constraints
    Globalization, the Welfare State and Inequality, Duane Swank
    The Europeanization of Social Protection: Domestic Impacts and National Responses, Jon Kvist and Juho Saari
    Explaining Convergence of OECD Welfare States: a Conditional Approach, Carina Schmitt and Peter Starke
    Breaking with the Past? Why the Global Financial Crisis led to Austerity Policies but not to Modernization of the Welfare State, Klaus Armingeon
    Section 3: Challenges
    Ageing and the Welfare State: Securing Sustainability, Volker Meier and Martin Werding
    Very Low Fertility: Consequences, Causes and Policy Approaches, Peter McDonald
    Migration, Minorities and Welfare States, Carl-Ulrik Schierup and Stephen Castles
    The Politics of the New Social Policies: Providing Coverage against New Social Risks in Mature Welfare States, Giuliano Bonoli

    PART III - EMERGING IDEAS, EMERGENT FORMS
    Section 1: Emerging Ideas
    The Big Society: A New Policy Environment for the Third Sector? Peter Alcock
    Diffusing Ideas for After Neoliberalism: The Social Investment Perspective in Europe and Latin America, Jane Jenson
    The Governance of Economic Uncertainty: Beyond the ‘New Social Risk’ Analysis, Colin Crouch and Maarten Keune
    How Climate Change will Shape the Social Policy Framework, Zahir Sadeque
    Basic Income and the Two Dilemmas of the Welfare, State Phillippe van Parijs
    Section 2: Emergent Forms
    What Adult Worker Model? A Critical Look at Recent Social Policy Reform in Europe from a Gender and Family Perspective, Mary Daly
    Beyond Modernization? Social Care and the Transformation of Welfare Governance, Janet Newman, Caroline Glendinning and Michael Hughes
    Assessing the Welfare State: The Politics of Happiness, Alexander Pacek and Benjamin Radcliff
    Europe’s Post-Democratic Era, Jürgen Habermas

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