States and Welfare States : Government for the People

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Most governments in the world have taken responsibility for social policy and elected to develop services in health, education and social security. This book explores the role of government and the state in the contemporary world and discusses views about government responsibility for social welfare...

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Autor principal: Spicker, Paul
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Policy Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Public welfare.
Welfare state.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- About the author -- 1. Introduction: the state, and what it has become -- Some misconceptions -- The growth of 'positive welfare' -- The contemporary state -- Developing the argument -- Part I: On government -- 2. Government -- Legitimate authority -- Governance -- 3. Public policy -- Economic policy -- Social policy: public and social welfare services -- Policies for society -- The limits of policy -- 4. The state and civil society -- The sectors of civil society -- Welfare pluralism -- 5. Global public policy 
505 0 |a Relations between states -- The state and non-citizens -- Direct intervention abroad -- International issues -- International governance -- Part II: Salus populi suprema lex: the welfare of the people is the highest law -- 6. The scope of legitimate action -- Liberalism: the enabling state -- Social democracy: principled change -- Communitarian conservatism -- Neoliberalism: the case for less government -- Reconciling different positions -- 7. Welfare -- Welfare as a matter for individuals -- The sum of individual welfares -- Social understandings of welfare: needs, poverty and deprivation 
505 0 |a The collective good -- Social welfare policies -- 8. Which people? -- Including the excluded -- Residual and institutional provision -- The development of social policy -- 9. The commitment to welfare -- Solidarity -- Citizenship -- Democracy -- Extending welfare provision -- 10. Disputed principles -- Equality -- Redistribution -- Social justice -- The welfare state -- 11. The duties of a government -- Positive welfare -- Overcoming the constraints -- The responsibilities of government -- Index of subjects -- Index of names -- Back Cover 
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