Can the Welfare State Survive?

Andrew Gamble (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

152 Seiten

2016
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-0-7456-9874-8 (ISBN)

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After the most serious economic crash since the 1930s and the slowest recovery on record, austerity rules. Spending on the welfare state did not cause the crisis, but deep cuts in welfare budgets has become the default policy response. The welfare state is seen as a burden on wealth creation which can no longer be afforded in an ever more competitive global economy. There are calls for it to be dismantled altogether.

In this incisive book, leading political economist Andrew Gamble explains why western societies still need generous inclusive welfare states for all their citizens, and are rich enough to provide them. Welfare states can survive, he argues, but only if there is the political will to reform them and to fund them.

Andrew Gamble is Emeritus Professor of Politics at Queens� College, Cambridge

Introduction
1. The life and times of the welfare state
2. The battle of ideas
3. Four challenges
4. A future for the welfare state
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Reihe/Serie	Global Futures
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	125 x 191 mm
Gewicht	154 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	0-7456-9874-3 / 0745698743
ISBN-13	978-0-7456-9874-8 / 9780745698748
Zustand	Neuware