The welfare state reader /

The welfare state reader / edited by Christopher Pierson, Francis G. Castles and Ingela K. Naumann.

"The Welfare State Reader has established itself as a vital source of outstanding original research since its first appearance in 2000. In the third edition, Pierson, Castles and Naumann have comprehensively overhauled the content, bringing it wholly up to date with contemporary discussions abo...

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Other Authors: Pierson, Christopher (Editor), Castles, Francis G. (Francis Geoffrey), 1943- (Editor), Naumann, Ingela K. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK : Polity, 2014.
Edition:Third edition.
Subjects:
Welfare state.
Table of Contents:
  • Editors' introduction to the third edition
  • Part I. Approaches to welfare. The first welfare state? / Thomas Paine
  • 'Classical'. The welfare state in historical perspective / Asa Briggs
  • Citizenship and social class / T.H. Marshall
  • Universalism versus selection / Richard Titmuss
  • Perspectives on the left. What is social justice? / Commission on Social Justice
  • Some contradictions of the modern welfare state / Claus Offe
  • Responses from the right. The meaning of the welfare state / Friedrich von Hayek
  • The two wars against poverty / Charles Murray
  • The new politics of the new poverty / Lawrence M. Mead
  • Feminism. The patriarchal welfare state / Carole Pateman
  • The welfare state and women power / Helga Maria Hernes
  • Part II. Welfare regimes under threat. 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
  • 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
  • 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. 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 risks' 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
  • 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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