The Effect of the Welfare State on the Character of the Individual
Author: Henry Fearon (Author of "The Effect of the Welfare State on the Character of the Individual.")
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 14
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Author: Henry Fearon (Author of "The Effect of the Welfare State on the Character of the Individual.")
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 14
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Kelley
Publisher: Cato Institute
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9781882577705
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe welfare state rests on the assumption that people have rights to food, shelter, health care, retirement income, and other goods provided by the government. David Kelley examines the historical origins of that assumption, and the rationale used to support it today.
Author: Adam Perkins
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-01-26
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 1137555297
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe welfare state has a problem: each generation living under its protection has lower work motivation than the previous one. In order to fix this problem we need to understand its causes, lest the welfare state ends up undermining its own economic and social foundations. In The Welfare Trait, award-winning personality researcher Dr Adam Perkins argues that welfare-induced personality mis-development is a significant part of the problem. In support of his theory, Dr Perkins presents data showing that the welfare state can boost the number of children born into disadvantaged households, and that childhood disadvantage promotes the development of an employment-resistant personality profile, characterised by aggressive, antisocial and rule-breaking tendencies. The book concludes by recommending that policy should be altered so that the welfare state no longer increases the number of children born into disadvantaged households. It suggests that, without this change, the welfare state will erode the nation's work ethic by increasing the proportion of individuals in the population who possess an employment-resistant personality profile, due to exposure to the environmental influence of disadvantage in childhood.
Author: David Garland
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 0199672660
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Very Short Introduction discusses the necessity of welfare states in modern capitalist societies. Situating social policy in an historical, sociological, and comparative perspective, David Garland brings a new understanding to familiar debates, policies, and institutions.
Author: Jack D. Douglas
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-29
Total Pages: 855
ISBN-13: 1351479040
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Myth of the Welfare Stale is a basic and sweeping explanation of the rise and fall of great powers, and of the profound impacts of these megastates on ordinary lives. Its central theme is the rise of bureaucratic collectivization in American society. It is Douglas's conviction, which he supports with a wealth of detail, that statist bureaucracies produce siagnation, often exacerbated by inflation, which in turn produces the waning of state power.Douglas has his own set of ""isms"" that require concerted attention: mass mediated rationalism, scientism, technologism, credentialism, and expertism. People who make policies have little, if any, awareness of the actual way social processes evolve: agricultural policy is set by people who know little of farming, arid manufacturing policy is set by people who have never set foot on a factory floor. In light of this ""soaring average ignorance,"" it is little wonder that policy-making has Alice-in-Wonderland characteristics and effects.Douglas sees the notion of a welfare state as a contradiction in terms; its widespread insinuation into the culture is made possible by its weak mythological form and benign-sounding characteristics. In fact, welfare states in whatever form they appear have failed in their purpose: to redistribute income or increase real wealth. The megastates are the source of social instability and economic downturn. They grow like a tidal drift. They start out to correct the historical grievances of the laissez-faire states, only to increase the problems they seek to correct. In this, the welfare state is a weakened form of the totalitarian state, producing similarly unhappy results.Professor Douglas has produced a work of ""anti-policy"" - arguing that freedom leavened by an ordinary sense of self-interest and social concern can overcome the shortfalls of the megastates and their myth-making, self-serving, propensities.
Author: Heikki Ervasti
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1781001278
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt a time when welfare states in Europe are coming under increasing pressure from both growing demand and, in some countries, severe financial austerity measures, the attitudes of ordinary people and European social cohesion are much debated. Using data from the European Social Survey, these empirical analyses examine welfare state attitudes and draw conclusions for the future. Theoretically the book is linked to analyses of altering social risks, policy challenges, policy changes and policy performance of the European welfare states. The analyses in the book explore a variety of individual and macro-level determinants of welfare policy attitudes ranging from socio-economic factors to religiosity, but a special emphasis is laid on solidarity, social cohesion and social capital among European nations.
Author: Gunther Teubner
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-10-26
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 3112329880
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo detailed description available for "Dilemmas of Law in the Welfare State".
Author: Fred Groh
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-26
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 0429866038
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished in 1998, this critical analysis of welfare state morality argues that all its essential claims are untenable: that need-based distribution of goods is inconsistent with its rationale; that morality can be given a rational grounding from which follows an exceptionally strong right of personal sovereignty; that cognitive self-sufficiency in the ordinary adult shows capacity to deal adequately with the problems of life. The same arguments lay the basis for an alternative social morality giving the individual his due respect. Among the topics are subjective and objective approaches to moral justification; when moral intuitions must be rejected; how it can be rational to act against reason; personal autonomy and the irresistible impulse; and why and when expropriation is morally permissible. A summary chapter applies the main conclusions to the poverty problem, comparing welfare state morality and the alternative in action.
Author: Gosta Esping-Andersen
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1990-01-23
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 0691028575
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFew discussions in modern social science have occupied as much attention as the changing nature of welfare states in Western societies. The author here provides a new analysis of the character and role of welfare states in the functioning of contemporary advanced Western societies. The author distinguishes three major types of welfare state, connecting these with variations in the historical development of different Western countries. He argues that current economic processes, such as those moving toward a postindustrial order, are shaped not by autonomous market forces but by the nature of states and state differences.
Author: Peter Squires
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13:
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