Welfare or Welfare State?: Contradictions and Dilemmas in Social Policy
- ISBN-10
- 1349245763
- ISBN-13
- 9781349245765
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 262
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996-06-12
- Publisher
- Springer
- Author
- David Marsland
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.
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