What Is the Welfare State For?
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-5075-6 (ISBN)
Welfare states matter for people’s lives – but there is little agreement about what one is. What are these states trying to do, and why? The book discusses the institutions and methods that characterise welfare states around the world. It focuses on the aims, purposes and justifications for social welfare services in order to explain what the welfare state is for.
Professor Paul Spicker is Emeritus Professor of Public Policy in Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen and a writer and commentator on social policy. His studies of housing and welfare rights developed from his early career and his research has included benefit delivery systems, the care of old people, psychiatric patients, housing management and local anti-poverty strategy and he has published widely in the field. He is a consultant on social welfare in practice, working for agencies at local, national and international levels.
1. What is a welfare state?
2. What has government got to do with it?
3. The aims of social welfare policies
4. The case for welfare
5. Universal and communitarian perspectives
6. The welfare state and the market
7. Some challenges for the welfare states
8. The welfare states: past, present and future
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.06.2025 |
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| Reihe/Serie | What Is It For? |
| Zusatzinfo | 1 Illustrations, black and white |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 127 x 203 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5292-5075-7 / 1529250757 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5292-5075-6 / 9781529250756 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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