Reasons for Welfare : : The Political Theory of the Welfare State / / Robert E. Goodin.

Robert Goodin passionately and cogently defends the welfare state from current attacks by the New Right. But he contends that the welfare state finds false friends in those on the Old Left who would justify it as a hesitant first step toward some larger, ideally just form of society. Reasons for Wel...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
©1988
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy ; 22
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Physical Description:1 online resource (440 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • ONE. Introduction
  • Part I AGAINST THE OLD LEFT
  • Introduction
  • TWO. Needs
  • THREE. Equality
  • FOUR. Community
  • Part II TOWARD A NEW THEORY
  • Introduction
  • FIVE. Exploitation
  • SIX. Dependency
  • SEVEN. Discretion
  • Part III AGAINST THE NEW RIGHT
  • Introduction
  • EIGHT. Efficiency
  • NINE. Supply-side Policies
  • TEN. Desert
  • ELEVEN. Freedom
  • TWELVE. Self-reliance
  • Part IV CONCLUSION
  • THIRTEEN. Conclusion
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX