State and Social Welfare, The: The Objectives of Policy by Dorothy Wilson
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.
State and Social Welfare, The
Summary
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.
State and Social Welfare, The Summary
State and Social Welfare, The Reviews
'...an important collection, which will interest the general and more specialised reader.'
Times Higher Education Supplement
'With its wide-ranging coverage of all aspects in the debate, this book is invaluable for anyone with an interest in social policy.'
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Times Higher Education Supplement
'With its wide-ranging coverage of all aspects in the debate, this book is invaluable for anyone with an interest in social policy.'
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Table of Contents
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.
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State and Social Welfare, The: The Objectives of Policy by Dorothy Wilson
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