Connelly, James
The Withering of the Welfare State
1. From Citizen Solidarity to Self-Serving Inequality: Social Solidarity, Market Economy and Welfare Statecraft
Jack Hayward
Part I. Public Intervention: The Roles of State and Society
2. The Rationale for the Retreat from the Welfare State
Noël O’Sullivan
3. Expanding the Role of Civil Society in Britain and Beyond
Elizabeth Monaghan
4. Multicultural Society and the Welfare State
Bhikhu Parekh
Part II. Vicissitudes of Democratic Institutions and Processes
5. Constitutional Change and the Tensions of Liberal Democracy
Philip Norton
6. The British Welfare State and its Discontents
Matt Beech
7. Bureaucracy: Disregarding Public Administration
Edward Page
Part III. Intrusive National and International Market Forces
8. From Financing Social Insurance to Insuring Financial Markets: The Socialisation of Risk and the Privatisation of Profit in an Age of Irresponsibility
Simon Lee, Richard Woodward
9. The Environmental Challenge to Nation States: From Limits to Growth to Ecological Modernisation
Rüdiger Wurzel
10. Inequality, Social Policy and State Welfare Regimes in Developing Countries: The Case of Brazil
Mahrukh Doctor
Part IV. The Residual Warfare State
11. Human Welfare in a World of States: Reassessing the Balance of Responsibility
Justin Morris, Nicholas Wheeler
12. Free-Riding? The Cost of Defence: The United Kingdom, France and the United States of America
Christopher Martin
13. Conclusion: Remaining the Welfare State?
James Connelly
Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, British Politics, Comparative Politics, Social Policy, Political Sociology, Political Science, Social Care
- Editor
- Connelly, James
- Hayward, Jack
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2012
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 232 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230349230
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-34075-0