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The end of the welfare state? : responses to state retrenchment /

Using the findings from up-to-date attitude surveys in Europe East and West, the US and Australasia, this book shows that, contrary to the claims of experts and policy-makers, the welfare state is still highly popular amongst citizens.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Svallfors, Stefan (Editor ), Taylor-Gooby, Peter (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
Colección:Routledge/European Sociological Association studies in European societies ; 3.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. 'Hollowing out' versus the new interventionism : public attitudes and welfare futures / Peter Taylor-Gooby
  • 2. Changing labour markets, new social divisions and welfare state support : Denmark in the 1990s / Jørgen Goul Andersen
  • 3. The middle class and welfare state retrenchment : attitudes to Swedish welfare policies / Stefan Svallfors
  • 4. Who wants to preserve the 'Scandinavian service state'? : attitudes to welfare services among citizens and local government elites in Finland, 1992-6 / Helena Blomberg and Christian Kroll
  • 5. Welfare state opinions among citizens, MP-candidates and elites : evidence from Finland / Pauli Forma
  • 6. Progressive taxation farewell? : attitudes to income redistribution and taxation in Sweden, Great Britain and the United States / Jonas Edlund
  • 7. Within and without : labour force status and political views in four welfare states / George Matheson and Michael Wearing
  • 8. Need, citizenship and merit : public opinion on pension policy in Australia, Finland and Poland / Pauli Forma and Olli Kangas
  • 9. Egalitarianism, perception of conflicts and support for transformation in Poland / Krzysztof Zagórski
  • 10. And what if the state fades away? : the civilising process and the state / Zsuzsa Ferge.