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Evaluating the welfare state : social and political perspectives /
Evaluating the Welfare State: Social and Political Perspectives together with its companion Social Policy Evaluation: An Economic Perspective is the outgrowth of an international and interdisciplinary conference on policy evaluation held at Tel Aviv University in December 1980. The conference brough...
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New York :
Academic Press,
1983.
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover; Evaluating the Welfare State: Social and Political Perspectives; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; Introduction; Part I: The Welfare State: Causes and Consequences; Chapter 1. The Political Consequences of the Welfare State; What Is ""The Welfare State""?; Identifying the Welfare State's Political Consequences; Hopes and Fears; The Welfare State's Actual Consequences; An Inference and a Noninference; References; Chapter 2. Class Politics and the Western Welfare State; Prologue: Socialism and the Welfare State; Theoretical Perspectives on the Welfare State.
- Class Interests and the Welfare StateThe Pro-Social-Democratic Consensus and Its Shortcomings; Alternatives to the Social Democratic Interpretation; Epilogue: Socialism and the Welfare State; References; Chapter 3. Political Legitimacy and Consensus: Missing Variables in the Assessment of Social Policy; Types of Political Economy among Market-Oriented Rich Democracies: Democratic Corporatism or the Mass Society; Corporatist Democracies Can Tax, Spend, and yet Stay Cool; Corporatism, Consensus, and the Politics of Evaluation Research; Conclusion; References.
- Chapter 4. Social Policy Evaluation and the Psychology of StagnationThe Rising Expectations Hypothesis; Economic Sentiment and Changes in the National Economy; The Maldistribution Hypothesis; The Malallocation Hypothesis; Conclusions; References; Chapter 5. Expectancies, Entitlements, and Subjective Welfare; Introduction; Conceptual Considerations; Expectancies and Entitlements with Respect to Pay; Measures; Empirical Model; Results; Summary and Some Implications; References; Part II: Boundaries of the Welfare State and the Foci of Policy Evaluation.
- Chapter 6. The Growing Complexity of Economic Claims in Welfare SocietiesThe Welfare Economy; Employer-Provided Welfare Benefits; The Redefinition of the Territory of Social Policy; The Development of Employee Benefits and Government Transfers in the United States since 1929; Conclusion; References; Chapter 7. Systematic Confusions in the Evaluation of Implementing Decisions; Publicized Governmental Actions with Little Effect on Value Allocations; Implementation That Maintains Established Inequalities; The Free Market in Creating Regulatory Agencies; The Symbolic Uses of Formal Goals.
- Issue Networks as Masked RegulatorsGovernmental Organizations as Political Reinforcements; References; Chapter 8. The Welfare State: Issues of Rationing and Allocation of Resources; References; Chapter 9. Charting the Iceberg: Visible and Invisible Aspects of Government; Introduction; The Growth of the Public Sector; Indirect Spending by the Government; The Invisible Government; The Advantages and Disadvantages of Various Forms of Government Control; Conclusion; References; Part III: Evaluation Research: Concepts and Issues; Chapter 10. The Scope of Evaluation Activities in the United States.