The End of the Welfare State? (eBook, PDF)

Responses to State Retrenchment
Redaktion: Svallfors, Stefan; Taylor-Gooby, Peter

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Using the findings from up-to-date attitude surveys in Europe East and West, the US and Australasia, this book shows that, contrary to the claims of experts and policy-makers, the welfare state is still highly popular amongst citizens.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134621224
• Artikelnr.: 38253652

Autorenporträt

Stefan Svallfors is lecturer of sociology, Umeå University, Sweden. Peter Taylor-Gooby is professor of social policy at the University of Kent.

Inhaltsangabe

1. 'Hollowing Out' Versus the New Interventionism: Public Attitudes and
Welfare FuturesPeter Taylor-Gooby2. Changing Labour Markets, New Social
Divisions and Welfare State Support: Denmark in the 1990s.Joergen Goul
Andersen3. The Middle Class and Welfare State Retrenchment: Attitudes to
Swedish Welfare PoliciesStefan Svallfors4. Who Wants to Preserve the
Scandinavian Service State? Attitudes to Welfare Services Among Citizens
and Local Government Elities in Finland 1992-96.Helena Blomberg and
Christian Kroll5. Welfare State Opinions Among Citizens, MP-Candidates and
Elites: Evidence from FinlandPauli Forma6. Progressive Taxation Farewell?
Attitudes to Income Redistribution and Taxation in Sweden, Great Britain,
and the United StatesJonas Edlund7. Within and Without: Labour Force Status
and Political Views in Four Welfare StatesGeorge Matheson and Michael
Wearing8. Need, Citizenship or Merit: Public Opinion on Pension Policy in
Australia, Finland and PolandPauli Forma & Olli Kangas9. Egalitarianism,
Perception of Conflicts, and Support for Transformation in PolandKrzysztof
Zagorski10. And What if the State Fades Away? The Civilising Process and
the StateZsuzsa Ferge