| dc.contributor.author | MAU, Steffen | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-06-25T13:22:28Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-06-25T13:22:28Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2003 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | London : New York, Routledge, 2003, Routledge ; EUI studies in the political economy of welfare | en |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 9780415317542 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/22505 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The welfare state can be regarded as the major institutional arrangement of western societies that contributes to a socially accepted allocation of resources amongst the members of a given society. It is a means by which the political sphere re-balances intolerable inequalities and outcomes that have occurred within the market. For this purpose, a significant proportion of income must be transferred between individuals and social groups. Most welfare measures, therefore, are redistributive measures that aim at achieving a distribution of societal resources that is preferable to the primary distribution of the market. However, raising money for welfare obje__ c_ tiv_e s needs to he justimfieendts ,c oannstadn tLgyo_lviaever tno cnoviiicethe- ir electorate that the interventionist activities are in accord with their interests. | en |
| dc.description.tableofcontents | --1 Introduction
--2 Self-interest and pocket-book attitudes Beneficial involvement 5
--Rising demands and ungovernability 7
--Legitimation crisis: value for meaning 9
--The welfare backlash and a rational opposition 12
--Entrenched interests and 'varieties of capitalism' 14
--Policy reform: designing institutions for knaves 17
--3 The admixture of motives: broadening the perspective
--Preference formation beyond self-interest 21
--Institutions: material incentives and social norms 27
--The moral economy of welfare state institutions 31
--The homo reciprocus 35
--Policy designs and the repertoire of motives 38
--Summary 41
--4 An analytical framework
--VVelfare institutions and public attitudes 43
--Survey data and methods 47
--5 The state of welfare 55
—-A comparative framework 55
--The welfare legacy in Britain 60
--The welfare legacy in Germany 71
--Welfare regimes and their moral economies: some preliminary thoughts 81
--6 The logic of popular support for welfare schemes and their objectives 88
--Redistribution in our heads: givers and takers 89
--The two moralities of giving assistance to the poor 110
--Unemployment provision: the messy contract 127
--Old age: transfers from the active to the inactive 147
--Health: risk distribution and cost sharing 166
--7 The moral economy revisited 185
--Notes 198
--Bibliography 208
--Index 232 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Routledge | en |
| dc.relation.isversionof | http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5275 | en |
| dc.title | The Moral Economy of Welfare States: Britain and Germany compared | en |
| dc.type | Book | en |
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| dc.description.version | Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2002 | en |
