David Garland (Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Professor

Broschiertes Buch

The Welfare State

A Very Short Introduction

Beschreibung

This Very Short Introduction discusses the necessity of welfare states in modern capitalist societies. Situating social policy in an historical, sociological, and comparative perspective, David Garland brings a new understanding to familiar debates, policies, and institutions.

Autor

David Garland is the Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology at New York University and Professorial Fellow at Edinburgh University. He is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh and taught there from 1979 to 1997 before moving to the USA. A Fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Garland is the author of a series of award-winning books on punishment and criminal justice, including Punishment and Welfare (1985), The Culture of Control (OUP 2001) and Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in and Age of Abolition (OUP 2010). His recent work on the welfare state has appeared in the European Journal of Sociology.

Produktdetails

• Very Short Introductions
• Verlag: OUP Oxford / Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 174mm x 113mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 136g
• ISBN-13: 9780199672660
• ISBN-10: 0199672660
• Artikelnr.: 43173710