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Justice, Care, and the Welfare State (Hardcover)
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Justice, Care, and the Welfare State (Hardcover)
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Western welfare states are in a period of significant transition.
Changes in the nature of work and the family, the growing elderly
population, and other developments over the past fifty years have
rendered existing welfare policies largely out-of-step with
economic and social conditions. While welfare state reform clearly
raises important questions about justice and social policy,
political philosophers have been slow to address it. Justice, Care,
and the Welfare State takes up the important task of developing a
theory of justice to guide contemporary welfare state reform.
Applying normative political philosophy to public policy issues, it
addresses questions such as: What role, if any, should states play
in supporting families? Should the state support national health
care and, if so, why and in what form? What does society owe to the
elderly? What role should welfare states play in supporting
disabled people? What obligations does the state have toward the
poor? As distinct from many works of political philosophy, Justice,
Care, and the Welfare State draws on empirical data about the
populations and circumstances of existing Western societies and
offers concrete policy advice for reforming welfare policies.
Noting that many of the challenges confronting people in
post-industrial societies involve issues of care, Engster draws on
a public ethics of care to develop his theory of welfare state
justice, outlining specific policy proposals in the areas of the
family, education, health care, old age pensions and long-term
care, disability, and poverty and unemployment. The book offers
important insights into how Western welfare states can be reformed
in light of recent economic and social changes in order better to
promote justice. It should be of interest to political
philosophers, welfare state scholars, public policy analysts, and
others interested in thinking about contemporary policy reform and
justice.
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