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Introduces this collection of essays on public attitudes toward the welfare state, particularly in light of recent restructurations, drawing on data from surveys conducted across the 1990s. Focus is on the traditional bastions of state welfare, the Scandinavian states, although the US, Australasia, & Eastern & Western Europe are also represented. Economic, political, social, & technological challenges to the traditional welfare state are reviewed, along with changes in the context of & pressures on government policy making & government responses. Implications for future welfare policy & the welfare state are assessed. 19 References. K. Hyatt Stewart

"Welfare Politics in Africa" published on by Oxford University Press.

Data from three national surveys conducted in Sweden, 1986-1996, are drawn on to explore potential class differences in attitudes toward the welfare state & whether these changed in the face of the economic crises & growing welfare state entrenchment of the 1990s. Opinions on issues of the delivery of welfare services, the financing of various welfare policies, & suspicions of welfare fraud are focal. Results indicate little support for strict class divisions in attitudes toward welfare policies; rather, there are significant differences within the middle class based on gender, occupational sector, & occupational level. Implications for future welfare policy are discussed. 5 Tables, 6 Figures, 32 References. K. Hyatt Stewart