The Welfare state East and West / edited by Richard Rose and Rei Shiratori.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rose, Richard, 1933-

Shiratori, Rei, 1937-

Nihon Seiji Sōgō Kenkyūjo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Welfare state--Congresses.

Welfare state.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

213 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.

Summary:

A unique, comparative examination of the different ways in which modern democratic societies provide welfare today, these essays focus on the welfare strategies and experiences of the U.S., Japan, Great Britain, Scandinavia, Germany, and Israel. While the objectives of welfare are common to each society, each has its own ideas about the best way for the state, the market, and the household to contribute to the welfare mix. With the economies of many countries under pressure, the question of the proper balance between domestic welfare spending and defense spending is often at the center of the debate. The essays on Japan provide new and useful insights into how a state--not normally considered a "welfare state"--manages to provide a wide array of successful welfare services.

Contents:

Introduction: Welfare in Society: Three Worlds or One? / Richard Rose, Rei Shiraton 3

1. Common Goals but Different Roles: The State's Contribution to the Welfare Mix / Richard Rose 13

2. Welfare and "Welfare" in America / Nathan Glazer 40

3. The Development of the Welfare Mix in Japan / Naomi Maruo 64

4. The Dynamics of the Welfare Mix in Britain / Richard Rose 80

5. The Civic Conception of the Welfare State in Scandinavia / Erik Allardt 107

6. Development, Structure, and Prospects of the German Social State / Wolfgang Zapf 126

7. The Israeli Welfare System

A Nation with a Difference / Shmuel Eisenstadt 156

8. Overcommitment in Pensions: The Japanese Experience / Yukio Noguchi 173

9. The Future of the Welfare State / Rei Shiratori 193

Appendix Data about Major Industrial Nations 207.

Notes:

Papers derived from meetings held at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland and at Nikko, Japan, and from a seminar held in Tokyo, and produced under the auspices of the Institute for Political Studies in Japan.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0195039564

OCLC:

13093421