Welfare and the welfare state : present and future / Bent Greve.
""The welfare state plays a key role in people's everyday lives in developed societies. At the same time, the welfare state is contested and there are constant discussions on how and to what degree the state should intervene, influence and have an impact on the development of society....
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York :
Routledge,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- What is welfare? Some basic concepts
- Welfare states and welfare regimes
- The state
- Financing the public sector
- The role of the market
- The labour market: employment and unemployment
- Civil society
- Equality and inequality
- Different groups' position in welfare states
- New ways of steering the welfare state
- The role of the EU in the development of welfare states
- Is there a future for the welfare state?