The moral economy of welfare states : Britain and Germany compared / / Steffen Mau.

• Superior document: Routledge/EUI studies in the political economy of welfare ; 5
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Mau, Steffen, 1968-
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge/EUI studies in the political economy of welfare ; 5.
• Physical Description: x, 238 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Self-interest and pocket-book attitudes
• Beneficial involvement
• Rising demands and ungovernability
• Legitimation crisis: value for meaning
• The welfare backlash and a rational opposition
• Entrenched interests and 'varieties of capitalism'
• Policy reforms: designing institutions for knaves
• The admixture of motives: broadening the perspective
• Preference formation beyond self-interest
• Institutions: material incentives and social norms
• The moral economy of welfare state institutions
• The homo reciprocus
• Policy designs and the repertoire of motives
• Summary
• An analytical framework
• Welfare institutions and public attitudes
• Survey data and methods
• The state of welfare
• A comparative framework
• The welfare legacy in Britain
• Laissez-faire and new liberalism
• Moving towards a Beveridgean social service state
• A welfare consensus, social rights and symptoms of crisis
• The neo-conservative era
• The activating welfare state
• The welfare legacy in Germany
• Conservative authoritarianism
• The social market economy
• Party responses to institutional drawbacks
• The impact of unification and new pressures on the welfare state
• Welfare regimes and their moral economies: some preliminary thoughts
• The logic of popular support for welfare schemes and their objectives
• Redistribution in our heads: givers and takers
• Interests and interpretations
• Assessing the redistributive impact
• A legitimate agenda for redistribution?
• Paying taxes: value for money and the fairness issue
• Burdensome taxation and the disapproval of redistribution
• Conclusion.