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The moral economy of welfare states : Britain and Germany compared /
This book investigates why people are willing to support an institutional arrangement that realises large-scale redistribution of wealth between social groups of society. Steffen Mau introduces the concept of 'the moral economy' to show that acceptance of welfare exchanges rests on moral a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2003.
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| Colección: | Routledge/EUI studies in the political economy of welfare ;
5. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Self-interest and pocket-book attitudes
- Beneficial involvement
- Rising demands and ungovernability
- Legitimation crisis: value for meaning
- The welfare backlash and a rational opposition
- Entrenched interests and 'varieties of capitalism'
- Policy reforms: designing institutions for knaves
- The admixture of motives: broadening the perspective
- Preference formation beyond self-interest
- Institutions: material incentives and social norms
- The moral economy of welfare state institutions
- The homo reciprocus
- Policy designs and the repertoire of motives
- Summary
- An analytical framework
- Welfare institutions and public attitudes
- Survey data and methods
- The state of welfare
- A comparative framework
- The welfare legacy in Britain
- Laissez-faire and new liberalism
- Moving towards a Beveridgean social service state
- A welfare consensus, social rights and symptoms of crisis
- The neo-conservative era
- The activating welfare state
- The welfare legacy in Germany
- Conservative authoritarianism
- The social market economy
- Party responses to institutional drawbacks
- The impact of unification and new pressures on the welfare state
- Welfare regimes and their moral economies: some preliminary thoughts
- The logic of popular support for welfare schemes and their objectives
- Redistribution in our heads: givers and takers
- Interests and interpretations
- Assessing the redistributive impact
- A legitimate agenda for redistribution?
- Paying taxes: value for money and the fairness issue
- Burdensome taxation and the disapproval of redistribution
- Conclusion.