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Age in the Welfare State - The Origins of Social Spending on Pensioners, Workers, and Children (Paperback)
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Age in the Welfare State - The Origins of Social Spending on Pensioners, Workers, and Children (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
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This book asks why some countries devote the lion's share of their
social policy resources to the elderly, while others have a more
balanced repertoire of social spending. Far from being the outcome
of demands for welfare spending by powerful age-based groups in
society, the 'age' of welfare is an unintended consequence of the
way that social programs are set up. The way that politicians use
welfare state spending to compete for votes, along either
programmatic or particularistic lines, locks these early
institutional choices into place. So while society is changing -
aging, divorcing, moving in and out of the labor force over the
life course in new ways - social policies do not evolve to catch
up. The result, in occupational welfare states like Italy, the
United States, and Japan, is social spending that favors the
elderly and leaves working-aged adults and children largely to fend
for themselves.
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