State and Social Welfare, The (eBook, PDF)

The Objectives of Policy
Redaktion: Wilson, Dorothy; Wilson, Thomas

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Aims to review the issues raised by the state provision of social benefits and to examine the principles on which their provision may be deemed to rest. The contributors examine the purpose of this area of public activity of 60per cent of all public expenditure in Britain.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317896630
• Artikelnr.: 57480302

Autorenporträt

Dorothy Wilson, Thomas Wilson

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Issues and objectives
Thomas Wilson and Dorothy Wilson. Part 2 Questions of principle: Welfare philosophies and welfare finance
Alan Peacock. The welfare state - a public choice perspective
Jack Wiseman. Welfare and the enterprise society
Raymond Plant. Joint goods and benefits in kind - paternalism and liberalism in action
Alan Ryan. Part 3 Questions of practice: Constraints
Charles Carter. A national minimum? - a history of ambiguity in the determination of benefit scales in Britain
A.B.Atkinson. The objectives and attainments of pension schemes
Nicholas Barr. Part 4 Some issues of policy in Europe: Social policy and the European community
Steen Mangen. The welfare state in Russia
Alastair McAlley. Lessons from Sweden
Ann-Charlotte Stahlberg. Part 5 Shaping the course of policy: Principle
process and policy
Albert Weale. Is there scope for change?
Peter Barclay. Two Westminster perspectives on welfare policies
Frank Field and Timothy Raid. On rediscovering the middle way
Robert Pinthurst. Appendix: Social security in the UK.