Beyond the Welfare State? The New Political Economy of Welfare

by Pierson, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780745635217
• ISBN10: 0745635210
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-12-04
• Publisher: Polity

Summary

UNAPPROVED BLURB Over the past decade, Beyond the Welfare State? has become established as the key text on the emergence and development of welfare states. It offers a comprehensive and remarkably well-informed introduction to the ever more intense debates that surround the history and, still more importantly, the future of welfare in advanced industrialised states. Comprehensively revised and re-written, this third edition of the book embraces all of the most important theoretical and empirical developments in welfare state studies of recent years. Working within an explicitly comparative framework, the book draws on a wealth of international evidence to survey what are now the most pressing issues surrounding the future of welfare: among them, globalisation, demographic change, declining fertility, postindustrialism and immigration. It draws extensively on the explosion of work on welfare states that has emerged within the North American political science community over the past ten years as well as giving detailed attention to developments with the UK, continental and northern Europe and beyond. Beyond the Welfare State? remains the most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the complex of issues that surround welfare reform. It is required reading for anyone who wants to come to terms with what is really at stake in arguments about the future of welfare.

Author Biography

C. Pierson, Professor of Politics, University of Nottingham

Table of Contents

Acknowldgements

Introduction

Capitalism, Social Democracy and the Welfare

Industrialism, Modernization and Social Democracy

Capitalism, Social Democracy and the Welfare

Political Economy and the Welfare State

Capitalism, Social Democracy and the Welfare

New Social Movements and the Welfare State

Origins and Development of the Welfare State 1880-1975

After the `Golden Age': From `Crisis' to `Containment'

Retrenchment and Recalibration

Beyond the Welfare State?

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

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