Democracy and the welfare state : the two Wests in the age of austerity / edited by Alice Kessler-Harris and Maurizio Vaudagna.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kessler-Harris, Alice, editor.

Vaudagna, Maurizio, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Welfare state--European Union countries.

Welfare state.

Democracy--Social aspects.

Democracy.

Capitalism--Political aspects.

European Union countries.

Welfare state--United States.

Capitalism--Political aspects--European Union countries.

Capitalism.

Capitalism--Political aspects--United States.

Democracy--Social aspects--European Union countries.

Democracy--Social aspects--United States.

United States.

Physical Description:

xii, 403 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]

Summary:

After World War II, states on both sides of the Atlantic enacted comprehensive social benefits to protect working people and constrain capitalism. A widely shared consensus specifically linked social welfare to democratic citizenship, upholding greater equality as the glue that held nations together. Though the "two Wests," Europe and the United States, differ in crucial respects, they share a common history of social rights, democratic participation, and welfare capitalism. But in a new age of global inequality, welfare-state retrenchment, and economic austerity, can capitalism and democracy still coexist?In this book, leading historians and social scientists rethink the history of social democracy and the welfare state in the United States and Europe in light of the global transformations of the economic order. Separately and together, they ask how changes in the distribution of wealth reshape the meaning of citizenship in a post-welfare-state era. They explore how the harsh effects of austerity and inequality influence democratic participation. In individual essays as well as interviews with Ira Katznelson and Frances Fox Piven, contributors from both sides of the Atlantic explore the fortunes of the welfare state. They discuss distinct national and international settings, speaking to both local particularities and transnational and transatlantic exchanges.

Contents:

Historians interpret the welfare state, 1975-1995 / Maurizio Vaudagna

Reconciling European integration and the national welfare state : a neo-Weberian perspective / Maurizio Ferrera

Democracy after the welfare state : an interview / Ira Katznelson

Privatization and self-responsibility : patterns of welfare state development in Europe and the United States since the 1990s / Christian Lammert

Paradise lost? : social citizenship in Norway and Sweden / Gro Hagemann

Social citizenship in the U.S. Affordable Care Act / Beatrix Hoffman

In the shadow of employment precarity : informal protection and risk transfers in low-end temporary staffing / Sebastien Chauvin

From the welfare state to the carceral state : whither social reproduction? / Mimi Abramovitz

Family matters : social policy, an overlooked constraint on the development of European citizenship / Chiara Saraceno

Transforming gendered labor policies in Sweden and the United States, 1960s-2000s / Ann Shola Orloff

Breadwinner liberalism and its discontents in the American welfare state / Robert O. Self

Nationalism's challenge to European citizenship, democracy, and equality : potential for resistance from transnational civil society / Birte Siim

Poor people power : the state, social provision, and American experiments in democratic engagement / Marisa Chappell

Grass roots challenges to capitalism : an interview / Frances Fox Piven.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Democracy and the welfare state

ISBN:

9780231180344

0231180349

9780231180351

0231180357

OCLC:

987711629