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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