European Foundations of the Welfare State / / Franz-Xaver Kaufmann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Kaufmann, Franz-Xaver,
• MitwirkendeR: Atkinson, Anthony B.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; FIGURES --; FOREWORD --; TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE --; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; Introduction A SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE --; Part I INTELLECTUAL FOUNDATIONS --; Chapter 1 PIONEERS OF SOCIAL REFORMISM Sismondi, List, Mill --; Chapter 2 GERMAN ORIGINS OF A THEORY OF SOCIAL REFORM Hegel, Stein and the Idea of ‘Social Policy’ --; Chapter 3 CHRISTIAN INFLUENCES ON SOCIAL REFORM --; Chapter 4 WELFARE INTERNATIONALISM BEFORE THE WELFARE STATE The Emergence of Human Social Rights --; Part II THEORY OF SOCIAL POLICY --; Chapter 5 SOCIAL SECURITY The Leading Idea and its Problems --; Chapter 6 SOCIAL POLICY INTERVENTION Elements of a Sociological Theory --; Chapter 7 FIRST-ORDER AND SECOND-ORDER SOCIAL POLICIES --; Part III THEORY OF AND FOR THE WELFARE STATE --; Chapter 8 THE STATE AND THE PRODUCTION OF WELFARE --; Chapter 9 NATIONAL WELFARE STATE TRADITIONS AND THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL MODEL --; Chapter 10 TOWARDS A THEORY OF THE WELFARE STATE --; Part IV THE FUTURE OF THE WELFARE STATE --; Chapter 11 THE WELFARE STATE’S ACHIEVEMENTS AND CONTINUING PROBLEMS --; Chapter 12 HUMAN ASSETS AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHALLENGES TO THE WELFARE STATE --; Chapter 13 SOLIDARITY AND REDISTRIBUTION UNDER THE PRESSURE OF INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION --; Chapter 14 WHAT COMES AFTER THE CLASSIC WELFARE STATE? --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX OF NAMES --; INDEX OF SUBJECTS
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780857454775; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9780857454775
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Franz-Xaver Kaufmann.

While social welfare programs, often inspired by international organizations, are spreading throughout the world, the more far-reaching notion of governmental responsibility for the basic well-being of all members of a political society is not, although it remains a feature of Europe and the former British Commonwealth. The welfare state in the European sense is not simply an administrative arrangement of various measures of social protection but a political project embedded in distinct cultural traditions. Offering the first accessible account in English of the historical development of the European idea of the welfare state, this book reviews the intellectual foundations which underpinned the road towards the European welfare state, formulates some basic concepts for its understanding, and highlights the differences in the underlying structural and philosophical conditions between continental Europe and the English-speaking world.