The withering of the welfare state : regression / edited by James Connelly and Jack Hayward.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Connelly, James, Dr.

Hayward, Jack Ernest Shalom.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social stratification.

Welfare state.

History.

Social policy.

Great Britain--Social policy--21st century.

Welfare state--Great Britain--History--21st century.

Social stratification--Great Britain.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xii, 220 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

The post-war decades of prosperity and increased public expenditure on the comprehensive provision of public welfare services to all citizens went into reverse from the 1970s. The capacity to satisfy the demand for socially protective public services declined, along with the will to impose the redistributive taxation to pay for them. The regression from the high standards achieved is examined in this volume by considering the shifting balance between state and societal intervention in people's lives. The contributors also assess the ways in which governments have adapted their aims and practices to deal politically and administratively with their changed roles. The intrusive impact of national and international market and environmental pressures is analysed along with the interstate fate of human welfare and the way it competes with military expenditure for increasingly scarce resources. Managing orderly retreat has been a challenge to statecraft and is comparatively evaluated. Book jacket.

Contents:

Foreword by raymond plant

1) from citizen solidarity to self-serving inequality / Jack Hayward

Public intervention : the roles of state and society

The rationale for the retreat from the welfare state / Noel O'Sullivan

Expanding the role of civil society / Elizabeth Monaghan

Multicultural society and the welfare state / Bhikhu Parekh

Vicissitudes of democratic institutions and processes

Constitutional change and the tensions of liberal democracy / Philip Norton

The welfare state and its discontents / Matt Beech

Bureaucracy : disregarding public administration / Ed Page

Intrusive national and international market forces

From financing social insurance to insuring financial markets : the socialisation of risk and the privatisation of profit in an age of irresponsibility / Simon Lee and Richard Woodward

The environmental challenge to nation states : from limits to growth to ecological modernisation / Rudi Wurzel

Inequality, social policy and the state welfare regime : the case of Brazil / Mahrukh Doctor

The residual warfare state

Human welfare in a world of states : reassessing the balance of responsibility / Justin Morris and Nicholas Wheeler

Free-riding? : the cost of defence : the United Kingdom, France and the United States of America / Christopher Martin

Conclusion : remaining the welfare state? / James Connelly.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230337145

0230337147

OCLC:

772771705