Reasons for Welfare (eBook)

The Political Theory of the Welfare State

Robert E. Goodin (Autor)

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2020
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22187-8 (ISBN)

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Robert Goodin passionately and cogently defends the welfare state from current attacks by the New Right. But he contends that the welfare state finds false friends in those on the Old Left who would justify it as a hesitant first step toward some larger, ideally just form of society. Reasons for Welfare, in contrast, offers a defense of the minimal welfare state substantially independent of any such broader commitments, and at the same time better able to withstand challenges from the New Right's moralistic political economy. This defense of the existence of the welfare state is discussed, flanked by criticism of Old Left and New Right arguments that is both acute and devastating. In the author's view, the welfare state is best justified as a device for protecting needy--and hence vulnerable--members of society against the risk of exploitation by those possessing discretionary control over resources that they require. Its task is to protect the interests of those not in a position to protect themselves. Communitarian or egalitarian ideals may lead us to move beyond the welfare state as thus conceived and justified. Moving beyond it, however, does not invalidate the arguments for constantly maintaining at least the minimal protections necessary for vulnerable members of society.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.12.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: absolute needs • activist welfare state • adverse selection • Aid • Air Pollution • apartheid policies • arbitrariness • Bargaining Power • beneficiary • bias and impartiality • bidding • Brian Barry • Bryan, William Jennings • bureaucrat • Calculation • capital distribution • Capitalism • Catholic Benevolent Fund • Citizenship • clientelism in welfare • closet altruism • collective conscience • commercialization and services • Commodity • Competition • conditional needs • Consideration • contingent freedom • Criticism • culture of poverty • David Bull • defense contracts • Delict (Scots law) • disability insurance • disadvantage • disaster • Discretion • duty of care concept • earnings, and labor supply • Economic Efficiency • economic justice • economist • economy • egalitarianism • Employment • entailed estates • entitlement • Explanation • Externality • extra-market allocation • farm relief • flagrant violation concept • formal discretion • Fraternal Organizations • Fraud • Generosity • gift relationship: altruism • Gross National Product (GNF) • Guarantee • Harrington, Michael • Heclo, Hugh • Human Capital • humanism, and dependency • Impartiality • income • inefficiency • inference • Institution • insurance • intentional discrimination • involuntary needs • Joseph, Sir Keith • Keynesianism • Laffer Curve • Laissez-faire • Legislation • Liberalism • Losing Ground (book) • loss from exploitation • Macroeconomics • Mainstreaming • marginal utility • Market Economy • Market Failure • misconduct • Morality • moral responsibility • national insurance • Negative Liberty • Neighborhood schools • no choice standard • objective needs • obligations-based welfare • obstacle • of education • Opportunism • opportunity cost • parenta • parole boards • Payment • Pension • personal autonomy • personal deserts • Philip Pettit • Philosopher • Politician • Politics • poor relief • positive discrimination • Poverty • Prediction • presumption • prima facie • Probability • Provision (contracting) • Public Expenditure • Public housing • quality control • Recklessness (psychology) • Regime • Regulation • Requirement • Residential patterns • Responsibility to Protect • rights • right-wing politics • salary • saving • Self-reliance • Self-Sufficiency • shortage • Social Insurance • Social Policy • social safety net • State of affairs (sociology) • Suggestion • Supplementary Benefit • Supply (economics) • Tax • Theft • theory • Transfer payment • Uncertainty • Unemployment • Unemployment benefits • voluntariness • Wealth • welfare • welfare rights • Welfare State
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22187-1 / 0691221871
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22187-8 / 9780691221878