Welfare state and welfare change /

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Author / Creator:Powell, Martin A., 1961-
Imprint:Buckingham ; Phildelphia, PA : Open University Press, 2002.
Description:v, 218 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4755340
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Other authors / contributors:Hewitt, Martin.
ISBN:0335205178
033520516X (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [188]-204) and index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Welfare state
  • Introduction
  • Welfare states, welfare societies and welfare regimes
  • In search of the welfare state: the inductive route
  • In search of the welfare state: the deductive route
  • Conclusions and plan
  • 2. The classic welfare state
  • Introduction
  • Pre-classic welfare states
  • The classic welfare state
  • In search of the classic welfare state
  • Aims
  • Mechanisms
  • Inputs, outputs and outcomes
  • Conclusion
  • 3. The restructured welfare state
  • Introduction
  • Restructuring the welfare state
  • In search of the restructured welfare state
  • Aims
  • Mechanisms
  • Inputs, outputs and outcomes
  • Conclusion
  • 4. The modern welfare state
  • Introduction
  • Modernizing the welfare state
  • In search of the modern welfare state
  • Aims
  • Mechanisms
  • Inputs, outputs and outcomes
  • Conclusion
  • 5. Economic explanations
  • Introduction
  • Marxist theories
  • Industrialization theories
  • The Keynesian welfare state
  • Post-industrialism
  • Post-Fordism
  • Economic globalization
  • Economic explanations and welfare change
  • Conclusions
  • 6. Political explanations
  • Introduction
  • Citizenship
  • Institutional accounts
  • 'Politics matters'
  • A new convergence? Does politics still matter?
  • Political explanations and welfare change
  • Conclusion
  • 7. Organizational explanations
  • Introduction
  • New public management
  • Hierarchies, markets and networks
  • Mixed economy of welfare
  • Governance
  • Governmentality
  • Neo-Taylorism
  • McDonaldization
  • Organizational explanations and welfare change
  • Conclusions
  • 8. Social explanations
  • Introduction
  • The social conscience thesis
  • The Titmuss thesis
  • The gift relationship
  • The Great Disruption
  • The demoralization of society
  • Consumerism and the affluent society
  • Risk society
  • Postmodernism
  • Post-structuralist theory
  • Macro changes
  • Social change and the welfare state
  • Conclusion
  • 9. Welfare change
  • Introduction
  • Summary of main arguments
  • What?
  • When?
  • Why?
  • The British welfare state in context
  • Twenty-first century welfare
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Index