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Development of Welfare States in Europe and America (Paperback, New Ed)
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Development of Welfare States in Europe and America (Paperback, New Ed)
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This volume seeks to contribute to an interdisci-plinary,
comparative, and historical study of Western welfare states. It
attempts to link their historical dynamics and contemporary
problems in an international perspective. Building on collaboration
between European-and American-based research groups, the editors
have coordinated contributions by economists, political scientists,
sociologists, and historians. The developments they analyze cover a
time span from the initiation of modern national social policies at
the end of the nineteenth century to the present. The experiences
of all the presently existing Western European systems except Spain
and Por-tugal are systematically encompassed, with com-parisons
developed selectively with the experi-ences of the United States
and Canada. The devel-opment of the social security systems, of
public expenditures!and taxation, of public education and
educational opportunities, and of income inequal-ity are described,
compared, and analyzed for varying groupings of the Western
European and North American nations. This volume addresses itself
mainly to two audi-ences. The first includes all students of policy
problems of the welfare states who seek to gain a comparative
perspective and historical under-standing. A second group may be
more interested in the theory and empirical analysis of long-term
societal developments. In this context, the growth of the welfare
states ranges as a major departure, along with the development of
national states and capitalist economies. The welfare state is
interpreted as a general phenomenon of modernization, as a product
of the increasing differentiation and the growing size of societies
on the one hand, and of processes of social and political
mobilization on the other. It is an important element of the
structural convergence of modern societies - by its mere weight in
all countries - and at the same time a source of divergence by the
variations within its institutional structure.
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