Welfare or Welfare State?

Contradictions and Dilemmas in Social Policy

• Author(s): David Marsland,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 262
• ISBN_10: 1349245763
  ISBN_13: 9781349245765
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Political Science / Public Policy / Social Policy , Political Science / Public Policy / General , Social Science / Sociology / General ,

Description:... Throughout the modernized world, a massive, bureaucratic apparatus of state welfare has been built up since the 1940s. This book examines the major deficiencies of the welfare state: the incoherence of its underlying philosophy; its redundancy in an era of prosperity and progress; its costs; its inefficiency; and the harm it does to those it should help by driving them into underclass dependency. Practical proposals for radical reform are outlined, combining self-reliance, privatization, and a new deal for the deprived and disadvantaged.