Marlon Barbehön, Marilena Geugjes, Michael Haus

Middle Class and Welfare State

Making Sense of an Ambivalent Relationship

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the relationship between the middle class and the welfare state. Taking an interpretive approach, it combines discourse analysis, welfare state theory, and interpretive policy analysis in an innovative way to investigate how the middle class becomes a meaningful object of public debates and policy-making.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9780367322373
• ISBN-10: 0367322374
• Artikelnr.: 59424441

Autorenporträt

Marlon Barbehön is Research Assistant (Postdoc) at the Institute of Political Science, Heidelberg University, Germany. Marilena Geugjes is Research Assistant at the Institute of Political Science, Heidelberg University, Germany. Michael Haus is Professor of Modern Political Theory at the Institute of Political Science, Heidelberg University, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The Middle Class: A Constructivist Perspective 2. Middle
Class and Social and Political Theory: Old Heritage, Contemporary
Variations 3. Middle Class and Theory of the Welfare State: Meanings of
Welfare, Overlapping Consensus, and Target Group Constructions 4. Different
Welfare Regimes, Different Middle Classes: On Methodology and Methods 5.
Sweden: The Egalitarian Understanding of the Middle Class 6. Germany: The
Conservative-Communitarian Understanding of the Middle Class 7. United
Kingdom: The Libertarian-Multicultural Understanding of the Middle Class 8.
Conclusion