Liberalism And The Welfare State

Author : Roger E. Backhouse,Bradley W. Bateman,Tamotsu Nishizawa,Dieter Plehwe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190676698

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Liberalism and the Welfare State by Roger E. Backhouse,Bradley W. Bateman,Tamotsu Nishizawa,Dieter Plehwe Pdf

The welfare state has, over the past forty years, come under increasing attack from liberals who consider comprehensive welfare provision inimical to liberalism. Yet, many of the architects of the post-World War II welfare states were liberals, many of whom were economists as much as socialists. Liberalism and the Welfare State investigates the thinking of liberal economists about welfare, focusing on Britain, Germany and Japan, each of which had a different tradition of economic thinking and different institutions for welfare provision. This volume explores the early history of welfare thinking from the British New Liberals of the early twentieth century, German Ordoliberals and post-war Japanese Liberal economists. It delves into arguments about neoliberalism under British Conservative and New Labour governments, after German reunification, and under Koizumi in Japan. Given the importance of both international policy collaboration and international networks of neoliberal economists, this volume also explores neoliberal ideas on federalism and the responses of neoliberal think tanks to the global financial crisis. Liberalism and the Welfare State provides a comparative analysis of economists' attitudes to the welfare state. Notwithstanding the differences, in each country support emerged very early on for social minimum standards, but strong disagreements within each country quickly developed. The result was divergence, as the debates shaped different welfare regimes. More recently, the strong impact of efficiency related critiques of welfare regimes has crowded out more nuanced and complex discussions of the past. This volume provides a reminder that neither liberalism nor economic ideas in general are inimical to well-designed welfare provision. The ongoing debate on economics and welfare can be greatly improved by way of stronger consideration of different lineages of both liberal and neoliberal lines of economic thought.

Author : Fanning, Bryan
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447360346

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Three Roads to the Welfare State by Fanning, Bryan Pdf

The development of social policy in Europe is explored in this accessible intellectual history and analysis of the welfare state. From the Industrial Revolution onwards, the book identifies three important concepts behind efforts to address social concerns in Europe: social democracy, Christian democracy and liberalism. With guides to the political and ideological protagonists and the beliefs and values that lie behind reforms, it traces the progress and legacies of each of the three traditions. For academics and students across social policy and the political economy, this is an illuminating new perspective on the welfare state through the last two centuries.

Author : Gerhard Wegner
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848441569

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Political Failure by Agreement by Gerhard Wegner Pdf

Gerhard Wegner provides new insight into the relation between democracies and market economies. He recognizes conflict between the two, but he doesn t propose constitutional controls over political action. Such proposals are grounded in the comparative static manipulation of equilibrium models. In contrast, Wegner advances an evolutionary theory of political economy, and uses this theory to explain how processes of societal learning might be set in motion that could expand support for market arrangements through time. This thoughtful and challenging book will repay examination by all students of political economy. Richard E. Wagner, George Mason University, US In drawing particular attention to the implications of evolutionary market theory for public policy Gerhard Wegner adds a novel and instructive line of argument to the long-standing debate on the inherent tension between democratic politics and economic liberalism. His concept of learning liberalism addresses an important dimension of political failure that has been neglected in this debate. Viktor J. Vanberg, Universitaet Freiburg, Germany The purpose of this book is to reconsider economic liberalism from the viewpoint of political liberalism. The author argues that advocates of economic liberalism largely overlook empirical political preferences which, in many societies, go far beyond a limited role of the state. Recent difficulties of reforming the welfare state provide evidence that political preferences are at odds with liberal economic policy in numerous cases. This fact challenges a political conception which demands a limited state role but also claims that citizens preferences as they are should determine the content of policies. Using an evolutionary perspective on economic liberalism, the book develops new arguments about how economic liberalism can be brought into line with political liberalism. Drawing on an evolutionary theory of markets, Gerhard Wegner reinforces the claim that liberal economic policies are conducive to prosperity in society, but he argues that the liberal promise of prosperity does not translate into corresponding political preferences on the part of citizens. A tension between political and economic liberalism arises which lies at the centre of this book. Political Failure by Agreement will strongly appeal to postgraduate students and researchers of global governance, political theory, political economy and institutional economics.

Author : J. Donald Moon,J Donald Moon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000309874

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Responsibility, Rights, And Welfare by J. Donald Moon,J Donald Moon Pdf

This book explores the social, historical, and philosophical bases of the welfare state. It examines the ways in which the welfare state gives expression to the deepest impulses and values of our way of life as it deals with the issues of poverty and social dislocation.

Author : Robert E. Goodin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521596394

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The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism by Robert E. Goodin Pdf

This book traces how individuals fare over time in each of the three principal types of welfare state.

Author : Robert Sefton
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783656214540

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The Welfare State, Individual Freedom and Morality by Robert Sefton Pdf

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2012 in the subject Politics - Miscellaneous, grade: none, , course: Politics, language: English, abstract: Every since the creation of welfare states in the US and Western Europe there has been enumerable debates as to what extent the existence of such welfare states undermines individual freedom. These debates raise such questions as how should we define freedom? To what extent is freedom compatible with attempts made by the state to promote the welfare of its citizens? Does liberty reside in independence from state interference? Does the provision of welfare impose constraints on individual liberty? However this text goes further and questions whether morality should be taken into account when deciding who should receive state welfare? And whether state interference goes against human nature?

Author : Nicholas Deakin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415233941

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Origins of the Welfare State by Nicholas Deakin Pdf

A range of different proposals were widely canvassed during the war years - the selection here is intended to resurrect a number of those that have subsequently dropped out of circulation but were influential in the climate of the times. A final section covers a number of early assessments of the implications of the introduction of welfare state legislation. Although the implementation of the welfare programme was in effect a bipartisan process it did not take long for doubts to be expressed. Some were directed at the principles on which the welfare state was being constructed. The collection closes with the discovery that poverty, whose banishment was a key objective of the whole enterprise, was still very much present.

Author : Daniel Shapiro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-07-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139466011

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Is the Welfare State Justified? by Daniel Shapiro Pdf

In this book, Daniel Shapiro argues that the dominant positions in contemporary political philosophy - egalitarianism, positive rights theory, communitarianism, and many forms of liberalism - should converge in a rejection of central welfare state institutions. He examines how major welfare institutions, such as government-financed and -administered retirement pensions, national health insurance, and programs for the needy, actually work. Comparing them to compulsory private insurance and private charities, Shapiro argues that the dominant perspectives in political philosophy mistakenly think that their principles support the welfare state. Instead, egalitarians, positive rights theorists, communitarians, and liberals have misunderstood the implications of their own principles, which in fact support more market-based or libertarian institutional conclusions than they may realize. Shapiro's book is unique in its combination of political philosophy with social science. Its focus is not limited to any particular country; rather it examines welfare states in affluent democracies and their market alternatives.

Author : Gosta Esping-Andersen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745666754

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The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism by Gosta Esping-Andersen Pdf

Few discussions in modern social science have occupied as much attention as the changing nature of welfare states in western societies. Gosta Esping-Andersen, one of the most distinguished contributors to current debates on this issue, here provides a new analysis of the character and role of welfare states in the functioning of contemporary advanced western societies. Esping-Andersen distinguishes several major types of welfare state, connecting these with variations in the historical development of different western countries. Current economic processes, the author argues, such as those moving towards a post-industrial order, are not shaped by autonomous market forces but by the nature of states and state differences. Fully informed by comparative materials, this book will have great appeal to everyone working on issues of economic development and post-industrialism. Its audience will include students and academics in sociology, economics and politics.

Author : Wim van Oorschot,Michael Opielka,Birgit Pfau-Effinger
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848440234

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Culture and Welfare State by Wim van Oorschot,Michael Opielka,Birgit Pfau-Effinger Pdf

. . . the book focuses on a very interesting and important. . . dimension of welfare analysis. . . the book provides a very rich and interesting range of analyses of the complex links between culture and welfare state. It deserves to be read both by advanced undergraduates and academics working in this area, and perhaps should also be read by policy-makers and politicians as a useful corrective to an overly economistic approach to welfare in the straitened years ahead. Rob Sykes, Social Policy and Administration The essays in this collection advance cultural analysis of the welfare state by describing the experiences of a large array of developed nations. . . Highly recommended. D. Stoesz, Choice Culture and Welfare State provides comparative studies on the interplay between cultural factors and welfare policies. Starting with an analysis of the historical and cultural foundations of Western European welfare states, reflected in the competing ideologies of liberalism, conservatism and socialism, the book goes on to compare the Western European welfare model to those in North America, Asia and Central and Eastern Europe. Comprehensive and engaging, this volume examines not only the relationships between cultural change and welfare restructuring, taking empirical evidence from policy reforms in contemporary Europe, but also the popular legitimacy of welfare, focusing particularly on the underlying values, beliefs and attitudes of people in European countries. This book will be of great interest to sociologists and political scientists, as well as social policy experts interested in a cultural perspective on the welfare state.

Author : Anton Zijderveld
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351289788

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The Waning of the Welfare State by Anton Zijderveld Pdf

The welfare state in postwar Western Europe has been extended and intensified in a spectacular manner. Today, "welfare" represents a complex mix of services covering health, education, welfare, the arts, leisure, and social security. Anton C. Zijderveld is of the opinion that Europe's vast, comprehensive welfare state is becoming leaner and meaner, heading down a more sober path toward decentralization and deregulation, which only, but not merely, secures order for its citizens and shields society's vulnerable. As the millennium approaches, Zijderveld believes Europe is experiencing a cultural renaissance and a socioeconomic and political reformation in which the market will flourish and civil society will prosper. The Waning of the Welfare State focuses on the transformation of the welfare state in Europe over a four-decade period. Zijderveld employs the democratic triangle theoretical model, in which democracy is viewed as a system in which state, market, and civil society are held in precious balance. If one component supersedes the other two, democracy is endangered. In its 1960s and 1970s heyday, the state took center stage at the expense of the market and civil society; social democracy was the prevailing ideology. In the 1980s the market triumphed, often at the expense of both the state and civil society; this was the decade of liberalism. Today, civil society prevails, albeit at risk of being injurious to state and market. Ideologically, this is the decade of conservatism. Zijderveld sees a future "Americanization" of European social policy producing a fortuitously balanced coalition of social democracy, liberalism, and conservatism; a place where safety and order, prosperity and economic participation, and social participation and meaningful interactions flourish equally. This transformation carries many risks. But it will, in the end, strengthen Europe's political, economic, and sociocultural stamina. If it also draws the Atlantic partners closer together, as Zijderveld believes it does, the chances of another European communist, libertarian, or fascist Gtterdommerung will remain remote. Zijderveld presents useful concepts in a highly organized fashion. He has produced a very important book for American readers who will, hopefully, discover, beyond the often vast differences, some basic similarities of structures and developments within the European welfare state.

Author : David Garland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9780199672660

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The Welfare State by David Garland Pdf

This 'Very Short Introduction' discusses the necessity of welfare states in modern capitalist societies. Situating social policy in an historical, sociological, and comparative perspective, David Garland brings a new understanding to familiar debates, policies, and institutions.

Author : David L. Bender
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : Conservatism
ISBN : 0912616261

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Liberals and Conservatives by David L. Bender Pdf

Author : Professor in the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies Stephan Haggard,Stephan Haggard,Robert R. Kaufman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691135960

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Development, Democracy, and Welfare States by Professor in the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies Stephan Haggard,Stephan Haggard,Robert R. Kaufman Pdf

Comparing the welfare states of Latin America, East Asia and Eastern Europe, the authors trace the origins of social policy in these regions to political changes in the mid-20th century, and show how the legacies of these early choices are influencing welfare reform following democratization and globalization.

Author : Carsten Jensen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199678419

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The Right and the Welfare State by Carsten Jensen Pdf

"Uses the distinction between labor market risks and life-course risks in order to explain why the Right's voters care much more about some social programs than about others and why, consequently, the policies of Right governments are much more diverse than is normally thought. The book also introduces the concepts of "marketization via layering" and "erode and attack" to help explain the peculiar approach to reforms adopted by Right governments."--Publishers website.