Summary

'The Welfare State Readerrs" has rapidly established itself as vital source of outstanding original research. In the second edition of this highly respected reader, Pierson and Castles have comprehensively overhauled the content, bringing it wholly up-to-date with contemporary discussions about this most crucial area of social and political life. The book includes almost twenty new carefully-edited selections, all reflecting the very latest thinking and research in welfare state studies. These readings are organised around a series of current debates on welfare regimes, on globalization, on Europeanization, on demographic change and the political challenges of the new century. There are also two substantial sections devoted to the future of welfare assessing the new risks and new opportunities that confront policy-makers in an increasingly complex political environment. Each section, as well as the volume overall, is set in context by an editorial introduction. As well as bringing together classic debates, The Welfare State Reader constitutes an invaluable guide to what is happening at the cutting-edge of welfare research. Read either independently or alongside he third edition of Piersonrs"s ls"Beyond the Welfare State?', it will give the reader an unrivalled overview of debates surrounding the welfare state.

Author Biography

C. Pierson, Professor of Politics at the University of Nottingham

F. Castles, Professor of Social and Public Policy at the University of Edinburgh

Acknowledgements	p. viii
Editors' Note	p. xii
Editors' Introduction to the Second Edition	p. 1
Approaches to Welfare	p. 5
The First Welfare State?	p. 9
'Classical'	p. 15
The Welfare State in Historical Perspective	p. 16
Citizenship and Social Class	p. 30
Universalism versus Selection	p. 40
Perspectives on the Left	p. 49
What is Social Justice?	p. 50
The Fiscal Crisis of the State	p. 62
Some Contradictions of the Modern Welfare State	p. 66
The Power Resources Model	p. 76
Responses from the Right	p. 89
The Meaning of the Welfare State	p. 90
The Two Wars against Poverty	p. 96
The New Politics of the New Poverty	p. 107
Feminism	p. 119
Feminism and Social Policy	p. 120
The Patriarchal Welfare State	p. 134
Debates and Issues	p. 153
Welfare Regimes	p. 159
Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism	p. 160
Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism or More? A State-of-the-Art Report	p. 175
Globalization	p. 199
Globalization, Economic Change and the Welfare State The 'Vexatious Inquisition of Taxation'?	p. 200
Negative Integration: States and the Loss of Boundary Control	p. 223
A Race to the Bottom?	p. 226
Europeanization	p. 245
Welfare-State Regress in Western Europe: Politics, Institutions, Globalization, and Europeanization	p. 246
Deliberative Governance and EU Social Policy	p. 269
The Open Method of Co-ordination and the European Welfare State	p. 289
Demographic Challenges to the Welfare State	p. 297
Population Ageing: An Unavoidable Future	p. 298
The Evolving Concept of 'Retirement': Looking Forward to the Year 2050	p. 309
The Global Retirement Crisis	p. 325
Gender Equity in Theories of Fertility Transition	p. 333
Political Challenges	p. 347
The New Politics of the Welfare State	p. 348
Beyond Retrenchment: Four Problems in Current Welfare State Research and One Suggestion on How to Overcome Them	p. 358
The Futures of Welfare	p. 375
A New World of Welfare	p. 377
Positive Welfare	p. 378
The Politics of the New Social Policies: Providing Coverage against New Social Risks in Mature Welfare States	p. 389
Beyond Universalism and Particularism: Rethinking Contemporary Welfare Theory	p. 408
Ways Ahead?	p. 433
A Welfare State for the Twenty-First Century	p. 434
Investing in the Citizen-Workers of the Future: Transformations in Citizenship and the State under New Labour	p. 455
Basic Income and the Two Dilemmas of the Welfare State	p. 473
Index	p. 478
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