Welfare state and welfare change /
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| Author / Creator: | Powell, Martin A., 1961- |
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| 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 |
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
