This book presents an introduction to the general problems of welfare state development. The opening chapters develop a review of competing evaluations of the historical and contemporary roles of the welfare state. This evaluation draws upon the most recent empirical research and gives full weight to an assessment of feminist, ecological and "anti-racist" accounts of welfare state development. The book constructs a distinctive history of the internatinoal growth of welfare states and offers a comprehensive treatment of the so-called "crises of the welfare state". The final chapter engages with the proponents of welfare pluralism and voluntarism, citizenship and civil society, and develops Chris Pierson's own sassessment of future prognoses for the welfare state. Pierson's calculations represent a challenge to both the defenders of welfare state orthodoxy and those who seek to displace it with a "return" to the market.
- ISBN13 9780745604664
- Publish Date 19 September 1991
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 May 1999
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Polity Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 230
- Language English