David Garland (Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Professor

The Welfare State: A Very Short Introduction

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Produktbeschreibung

This Very Short Introduction discusses the necessity of welfare states in modern capitalist societies. Situating social policy in an historical, sociological, and comparative perspective, David Garland brings a new understanding to familiar debates, policies, and institutions.

Produktdetails

• Very Short Introductions
• Verlag: OUP Oxford / Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 174mm x 113mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 136g
• ISBN-13: 9780199672660
• ISBN-10: 0199672660
• Artikelnr.: 43173710

Autorenporträt

David Garland is the Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology at New York University and Professorial Fellow at Edinburgh University. He is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh and taught there from 1979 to 1997 before moving to the USA. A Fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Garland is the author of a series of award-winning books on punishment and criminal justice, including Punishment and Welfare (1985), The Culture of Control (OUP 2001) and Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in and Age of Abolition (OUP 2010). His recent work on the welfare state has appeared in the European Journal of Sociology.

Inhaltsangabe

1: What is the Welfare State?
2: Before the Welfare State
3: Birth of the Welfare State
4: The Welfare State 1.0
5: Varieties
6: Problems
7: Neoliberalism and WS 2.0
8: Post-Industrial transitions: toward WS 3.0
9: The indispensable Welfare State
References
Further Reading
Index