European Foundations of the Welfare State /

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

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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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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