Contributor
Pierson, Christopher, editor of compilation.
Edition Statement:Third edition.
Imprint:Cambridge, UK : Polity, c2014.
Descriptionvii, 407 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Note:Previous edition: 2006.
Note:Editor's introduction to the 3rd edition -- The first welfare state? / Thomas Paine -- The welfare state in historical perspective / Asa Briggs -- Citizenship and social class / T.H. Marshall -- Universalism versus selection / Richard Titmuss -- What is social justice / Commission on Social Justice -- Some contradictions of the modern welfare state / Claus Offe -- The meaning of the welfare state / Friedrich von Hayek -- The teo wars against poverty / Charles Murray -- The new politics of the new poverty / Lawrence Mead -- The patriarchal welfare state / Carole Pateman -- The welfare state and women power / Helga Marie Hernes -- The worlds of welfare capitalism / Gosta Esping-Anderson -- Religion and the western welfare state / Philip Manow and Kees van Kersbergan -- The new politics of the welfare state / Paul Pierson -- Globalization and the welfare state and inequality / Duane Swank -- The Europeanization of social protection: domestic impacts and national responses / Jon Kvist and Juho Saari -- Explaining convergence of OECO welfare states: a conditional approach / Carina Schmitt and Peter Starke -- Breaking with the past?: why the global financial crisis led to austerity policies but not to modernization of the welfare state / Klaus Armington -- Ageing and the welfare state: securing sustainability / Volker Meier and Martin Werding -- Very low fertility: consequences, causes and policy approaches / Peter McDonald -- Migration minorities and welfare states / Carl-Ulrik Schierup, Stephen Castles -- The politics of the new social policies: providing against new social risks in mature welfare states / Giuliano Bonoli -- The big society : a new policy environment for the third sector? / Peter Alcock -- Diffusing ideas for after neoliberalism: the social investment perspective in Europe and Latin America / Jane Jensen -- The governance of economic encertainity beyond the 'new social risks' analysis / Colin Crouch and Maarten Keune -- How climate change will shape the social policy framework / Zahir Sadeque -- Basic income and the two dilemmmas of the welfare state / Phillippe va Parijs -- What adult workers model?: a critical look at recent social policy reform in Europe from a gender and family perspective / Mary Daly -- Beyond modernization?: social care and the transformation of welfare governance / Janet Newman, Caroline Glendinning and Michael Hughes -- Assessing the walfare state: the politics of happiness / Alexander Pacek and Benjamin Radcliff -- Europe's post-democratic era / Jurgen Habermas.
Note:"The Welfare state reader has established itself as a vital source of outstanding original research since its first appearance in 2000. In the third edition, Pierson, Castles and Naumann have comprehensively overhauled the content bringing it wholly up to date with contemporary discussions about this crucial area of social and political life. The book includes seventeen new selections, all reflecting the latest thinking and research in welfare state studies. These readings are organized around contemporary debates, such as the current trajectories of, constraints on and challenges to contemporary welfare regimes, as well as evolving ideas and emergent forms that constitute the future of welfare. In particular, new readings forcus on issues such as ageing populations and low fertility, climate change and global financial uncertainity, and nascent 'politics of happiness'. As in previous editions, the volume begins with a collection of readings that provide a grounding in core approaches to welfare, and each section is set in context by a new editorial introduction. As well as bringing together classic debates, The Welfare State Readetr represents and invaluable guide to waht is happening at the cutting edge of welfare research, giving the reader an unrivaled overview of debates surrounding the welfare state." p. 4 of cover
