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The second edition of this highly respected reader, has been comprehensively overhauled, bringing it wholly up-to-date with contemporary discussions about this most crucial area of social and political life. As well as bringing together classic debates, it constitutes an invaluable guide to what is happening at the cutting-edge of welfare research.

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• Second edition of a widely used, and highly respected, reader


• Comprehensively overhauled to make sure content remains at cutting edge of current arguments about welfare


• Also retains all the classic readings, serving to give students a complete overview of the whole range of debates


• Each section is now set in context by an editorial introduction, in addition to the overall introduction to the text.


• Priced competitively


• Can be used alongside Piersons third edition of Beyond the Welfare State?

The future of the welfare state is, for many people, the key social, economic and political issues for the new millennium. Drawing on the very best and most influential writing on welfare of the past fifty years, and featuring the work of more than thirty key authors,
The Welfare State Reader shows how, why and for whom the politics of welfare has attained this newly central status.

The book brings together in a single volume texts from a wide range of sources some of which are now either out of print or difficult to obtain. It includes work from the earliest years of postwar welfare state growth right through to the very latest debates about ageing, competitiveness and globalization. It encompasses both the most important theoretical approaches to welfare and the very latest comparative empirical research. The final section marks out the terrain on which the next battles over welfare will be fought.

Throughout the book, the emphasis is upon welfare debates. The extraordinary range of contrasting opinions and judgements in this volume demonstrate why welfare is such a crucial and contested topic. Selected and edited by two internationally respected researchers and teachers in the field, The Welfare State Reader is the essential guide to the debate.

Pierson and Castles have compiles a gem of a reader. It presents a true panorama of the opochal writings on Western welfare states, ranging from Thomas Paine to postmodernism. Between these two covers, the reader will find the most influential theoretical and analytical contributions on the causes and consequences of welfare state evolution, diversity and convergence. The collection succeeds brilliantly in bringing out the core controversies and debates. Any student or scholar or social policy will find this book invaluable in the studies.
G&osta Esping-Andersen, University of Trento

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Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements.

Editors' Note.

Editors' Introduction.

Part I: Approaches to Welfare.

The First Welfare State?: Thomas Paine.

'Classical' .

The Welfare State in Historical Perspective: Asa Briggs.

Citizenship and Social Class: T. H. Marshall.

Universalism versus Selection: Richard Titmuss.

Perspectives on the Left.

What is Social Justice? Commission on Social Justice.

The Fiscal Crisis of the State: James O'Connor.

Some Contradictions of the Modern Welfare State: Claus Offe.

The Power Resources Model: Walter Korpi.

Responses from the Right. .

The Meaning of the Welfare State: Friedrich von Hayek.

The Two Wars against Poverty: Charles Murray.

The New Politics of the New Poverty: Lawrence M. Mead.

Feminism. .

Feminism and Social Policy: Mary McIntosh.

The Patriarchal Welfare State: Carole Pateman.

Part II: Debates and Issues.

Welfare Regimes. .

Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism: Gosta Esping-Andersen.

The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism: Robert E. Goodin, Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels, Henk-Jan Dirven.

A European Welfare State?.

Towards a European Welfare State?: Stephan Leibfried.

Is the European Social Model Fragmenting?: John Grahl and Paul Teague.

Competiveness and Globalization: Economic Challenges to the Welfare State.

Social Welfare and Competitiveness: Ian Gough.

Negative Integration: States and the Loss of Boundary Control: Fritz Scharpf.

Challenges to Welfare: External Constraints: M. Rhodes.

National Economic Governance: Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson.

Demographic and Social Change. .

Social Security around the World: Estelle James.

On Averting the Old Age Crisis: R. Beattie and W. McGillivray.

Intergenerational Conflict and the Welfare State: American and British perspectives: Chris Phillipson.

Political Challenges to the Welfare State.

The New Politics of the Welfare State: Paul Pierson.

Welfare State Retrenchment Revisited: Richard Clayton and Jonas Pontusson.

Part III: The Futures of Welfare.

High-Risk Strategy: Will Hutton.

The Implications of Ecological Thought for Social Welfare: Tony Fitzpatrick.

Basic Income and the Two Dilemmas of the Welfare State: Philippe van Parijs.

The Welfare State and Postmodernity: Kirk Mann.

Positive Welfare: Anthony Giddens.

Subject Index.

Name Index.

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