Paul Spicker

Arguments for Welfare

The Welfare State and Social Policy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a concise explanation of what welfare is, and why it is important. With examples from the UK, Europe, North America and Australia the book explores how the principles of welfare are applied across the world.

Produktdetails

• Rowman & Littlefield International - Policy Impacts
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 124
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 192g
• ISBN-13: 9781786603029
• ISBN-10: 1786603020
• Artikelnr.: 46006833

Autorenporträt

Paul Spicker is Emeritus Professor of Public Policy at the Robert Gordon University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Welfare and the welfare state
2. The moral basis of social policy
3. Benefitting other people
4. Individualism and self-interest
5. The limits of the market
6. Providing public services
7. The role of government
8. Welfare as a way of realising other values
9. Policy for society
10. Does welfare have bad consequences?
Why welfare?
Bibliography
Index