What Is the Welfare State For?
eBook - ePub

What Is the Welfare State For?

  1. 160 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

What Is the Welfare State For?

About this book

Most states in the world make some provision for the welfare of their citizens. Every state engages with health care provision, almost all provide education services, and, after an explosion of interest in recent years, a substantial majority now have national schemes in place for cash assistance.

Welfare states matter for people's lives – but there is little agreement about what one is. What are these states trying to do, and why? The book discusses the institutions and methods that characterise welfare states around the world. It focuses on the aims, purposes and justifications for social welfare services in order to explain what the welfare state is for.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Epigraph
  3. Introduction
  4. Available now
  5. Forthcoming
  6. About the author
  7. Title Page
  8. Copyright Page
  9. Contents
  10. 1 What Is a Welfare State?
  11. 2 What Has Government Got to Do With It?
  12. 3 The Aims of Social Welfare Policies
  13. 4 The Case for Welfare
  14. 5 Universal and Communitarian Perspectives
  15. 6 The Welfare State and the Market
  16. 7 Some Challenges for the Welfare States
  17. 8 The Welfare States: Past, Present and Future
  18. Notes
  19. Further Reading
  20. Index