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A Democratic Architecture for the Welfare State (Paperback)
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A Democratic Architecture for the Welfare State (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations
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The welfare state faces various challenges in Scandinavia and many
European countries today, including a poor work environment in the
public sector, a growing democracy deficit, and demographic
obstacles. In this new book, Victor A. Pestoff argues that the
state cannot resolve these challenges alone or together with the
market, rather it requires the active participation of citizens and
the third sector in order to overcome them and become more
sustainable and flexible in the future. This book addresses the
need for a more democratic architecture for the European welfare
state, opening new perspectives for developing alternative channels
for direct citizen participation at the sub-municipal level of
governance. Pestoff finds that neither democratic theory nor
welfare state theory devotes adequate attention to the contemporary
role of the third sector as a service provider or to greater direct
citizen participation in the provision of welfare services. He
shifts the focus of analysis from the input to the output side of
the political system and explores new ways to promote a greater
role for the third sector and more citizen participation in the
provision of universal, tax financed welfare services. Part 1
discusses social economy actors in Sweden and Scandinavia, both
from a historical and future perspective. Part 2 explores major
issues for the third sector and welfare state, including the
allocation of an organization's surplus or profit, work environment
and service quality in public services and the third sector,
consumer perspectives on the social economy, democratizing medical
and health care in Japan, and co-production of childcare services
in eight European countries. Part 3 revisits the third sector and
state in democratic theory and welfare theory, as well as
recognizing major hurdles to the third sector and democratization
of the welfare state. Part 4 concludes by summarizing the politics
of participation in the welfare state.
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