New Perspectives on the Welfare State in Europe

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Illustrations......Page 7
Contributors......Page 9
Editorial introduction......Page 10
NOTES......Page 13
Part I On the state of the art......Page 14
1 O’Goffe’s tale......Page 15
FROM CRISIS TO SUCCESS......Page 19
REFERENCES......Page 23
THE MEANING OF THE WELFARE STATE......Page 25
Marxism......Page 26
Democratic transition to Socialism......Page 27
The neo-conservatives......Page 29
End of full employment......Page 30
Tripartism in decline......Page 32
From class politics to plural politics......Page 33
Decline of Utopia......Page 34
The end of full employment......Page 36
Tripartism in decline......Page 37
From class politics to plural politics......Page 38
CONCLUSION......Page 39
NOTES......Page 41
REFERENCES......Page 42
Part II Issues from Britain......Page 46
TRENDS IN SOCIAL SECURITY IN THE UK......Page 47
THE FUTURE OF SOCIAL SECURITY IN BRITAIN......Page 49
THE IMPACT OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (EC)......Page 51
International organisations......Page 53
DESCRIPTIVE SOCIAL SECURITY RESEARCH......Page 55
SOCIAL SECURITY RESEARCH RELATED TO OUTCOMES......Page 56
CONCLUSION......Page 63
REFERENCES......Page 64
INTRODUCTION......Page 67
POLICIES FOR HOME OWNERSHIP IN BRITAIN......Page 68
COMMON OR UNCOMMON DEVELOPMENTS?......Page 70
The meaning of home ownership......Page 71
Long-term growth in Britain......Page 72
Growth elsewhere......Page 73
Accounting for common and uncommon developments......Page 74
Home ownership and ideology......Page 76
HOUSING CRISES IN THE 1980s......Page 78
Mortgage default......Page 79
House prices......Page 80
FUTURE PROSPECTS......Page 81
REFERENCES......Page 83
INTRODUCTION......Page 86
SOME ANGLO-AMERICAN ATTITUDES......Page 88
ENTER THE NEW RIGHT......Page 91
POLICY THEMES FOR THE 1980s......Page 92
TWO POLICIES IN ACTION......Page 94
Enterprise Zones......Page 95
PRIVATISM IN FULL FLOWER: THEN GONE TO SEED?......Page 97
SOME LESSONS FROM THE HEXAGON?......Page 102
SOME CONCLUSIONS......Page 104
REFERENCES......Page 106
INTRODUCTION......Page 108
A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE......Page 111
ASSESSING THE WELFARE OF WORKING WOMEN......Page 114
RETURNER AND RETAINER POLICIES IN PRACTICE......Page 118
CONCLUSION......Page 123
REFERENCES......Page 125
Part III Prospects for Europe......Page 128
EUROPEAN INTEGRATION AND SOCIAL POLICY: HISTORICAL AND ANALYTICAL APPROACHES......Page 129
From negative to positive integration......Page 130
The German Reich......Page 131
USA......Page 132
The EC versus the USA and the German Reich......Page 133
THE FOUR SOCIAL POLICY REGIMES IN THE EC......Page 134
The Scandinavian welfare states......Page 135
The Anglo-Saxon countries......Page 136
The ‘Latin Rim’ countries......Page 137
‘Europeanisation’ from the ‘top down’ or ‘Americanisation’ from the ‘bottom up’?......Page 138
Towards ‘Americanisation’ of European poverty policy?......Page 139
‘Europeanisation’ of poverty policy......Page 144
CONCLUSION......Page 145
NOTES......Page 146
REFERENCES......Page 149
THE WELFARE STATE......Page 153
THE BOURGEOIS GOVERNMENTS, 1976–82......Page 155
THE RETURN OF THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATS, 1982–88......Page 156
THE INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE......Page 157
RECENT ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN SWEDEN......Page 159
RECENT SOCIAL POLICY DEVELOPMENTS......Page 162
CONCLUSION......Page 165
POSTSCRIPT POST SEPTEMBER 1991......Page 166
REFERENCES......Page 169
SOCIAL POLICY BEFORE THE COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM: A BALANCE SHEET......Page 172
SOCIAL POLICY IN TRANSITION: THE ISSUES......Page 178
Marketisation, inequality and social justice......Page 179
Citizenship, civil society and welfare......Page 180
Unemployment, poverty and racism......Page 182
TRENDS IN SOCIAL POLICY SINCE 1989......Page 183
TYPOLOGIES OF WELFARE POLICY: WHAT’S NEW IN EASTERN EUROPE?......Page 185
REFERENCES......Page 191
INTRODUCTION......Page 193
Determination......Page 194
Discipline......Page 196
Direction......Page 197
‘Lessons from abroad’......Page 199
Social policy objectives......Page 202
Useful services (Table 10.1)......Page 204
CONCLUSIONS......Page 207
NOTES......Page 209
REFERENCES......Page 210
Part IV On the state of the argument......Page 212
11 Bringing freedom back in......Page 213
RIGHTS WITHOUT WELFARE AND WELFARE WITHOUT RIGHTS......Page 214
Both rights and welfare: the British experience......Page 215
Rights without welfare......Page 217
Welfare without rights......Page 219
Neither welfare nor rights......Page 220
Flaws in the theory and practice of social welfare in a socialist society......Page 221
Implications for tax revenue......Page 224
Implications for state welfare......Page 225
Freedom as the first priority......Page 227
Slow institutionalisation of a civil economy......Page 228
Separate and successive steps......Page 229
REFERENCES......Page 230
Name index......Page 233
Subject index......Page 239