Beyond the Welfare State?
The New Political Economy of Welfare. 1st Edition.
240 pages | 6 x 9 | 1998
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First published in 1991, Beyond the Welfare State? has been thoroughly revised and updated for this new edition, which draws on the latest theoretical developments and empirical evidence. It remains the most comprehensive and sophisticated guide to the condition of the welfare state in a time of rapid and sometimes bewildering change.
The opening chapters offer a scholarly but accessible review of competing interpretations of the historical and contemporary roles of the welfare state. This evaluation, based on the most recent empirical research, gives full weight to feminist, ecological, and "anti-racist" critiques and also develops a clear account of globalization and its contested impact upon existing welfare regimes. The book constructs a distinctive history of the international growth of welfare states and offers a comprehensive account of recent developments from "crisis" to "structural adjustment." The final chapters bring the story right up to date with an assessment of the important changes effected in the 1990s and the prospects for welfare states in the new millennium.
Christopher Pierson is Professor of Politics at the University of Nottingham and the aurthor of Socialism After Communism (Penn State, 1986).
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Welfare states: the changing object of
1 Capitalism, Social Democracy and the Welfare State
I: Industrialism, Modernization and Social Democracy
Capitalism against the welfare state: classical Political economy
Capitalism against the welfare state: Marx
Capitalism and the welfare state: symbiosis and Support
Industrialism and the welfare state
Commentary: the industrialism thesis
Modernization and the welfare state
Traditional social democracy and the welfare state
Social democracy and the coming of the "Keynesian Welfare state"
The power resources model
Commentary: modernization, social democracy and Working class power
2 Capitalism, Social Democracy and the Welfare State
II: Political Economy and the Welfare State
The New Right and the welfare state
Public choice theory
The New Right and the welfare state: a summary
Marxism, neo–Marxism and the welfare state
Twentieth century Marxism and the welfare state
Neo–Marxist analysis of the welfare state
Neo–Marxism I: the welfare state as social control
Commentary: neo–Marxism I: the welfare state as social control
Neo–Marxism II: contradictions of the welfare state
The welfare state as "the crisis of crisis management": Offe
Post–Fordism and the decline of the Keynesian welfare state
Globalization
3 Capitalism, Social Democracy and the Welfare State
III: New Social Movements and the Welfare State
Feminism and the welfare state
Commentary: the feminist critique of the welfare state
The "anti–racist" critique of the welfare state
Commentary: the "anti–racist" critique of the welfare state
The Green critique of the welfare state
The historical uniqueness of welfare states" development
4 Origins and Development of the Welfare State 1880–1975
Before the welfare state
Origins of the welfare state
The birth of the welfare state: 1880–1914
Welfare states 1920–1975: the epoch of growth
The periodization of welfare state growth
1918–1940: "Consolidation" and development
New Deal and historic compromise
1945–1975: "The Golden Age of the welfare state"?
"The middle class welfare state"
The growth of welfare state employment
1945–1950: Reconstruction
1950–1960: Relative stagnation
1960–1975: Major expansion
5.After the "Golden Age": From "Crisis" through "Containment" to"Structural Adjustment"
The crisis of the post–war welfare state
Welfare capitalism: from "contingent crisis" to "systematic
Contradiction"
The New Right and the crisis of liberal representative Democracy
Crisis? What crisis?
Restructuring and retrenchment: the crisis contained
Crisis contained?
Conclusion
6 Beyond the Welfare State?
Markets v. the welfare state
A demographic crisis of the welfare state?
Welfare state regimes
A typology of welfare state regimes
The regimes debate
Globalization: regime convergence "at the bottom"?
The welfare state: a victim of its own success?
Growth to limits or limits to growth?
The challenge to social democracy
Reinstating social justice: the case of the Borrie
Commission
"The second marriage of justice and efficiency": the case for a basic income
Generative politics and positive welfare
Conclusion: Defending the Welfare State
Still the social democratic challenge
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index