A Swedish Welfare State, a Welfare State for Swedes
In: The Rise and Fall of the Miraculous Welfare Machine, S. 82-84
In: The Rise and Fall of the Miraculous Welfare Machine, S. 82-84
In: The Welfare State: A General Theory, S. 133-150
In: An Introduction to Modern Political Theory, S. 248-267
In: The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory
The welfare state refers to a concept of a state that focuses on ensuring that a broad range of social rights is provided for all citizens by acting on the social mechanisms and consequences of the market economy. In such a state government plays a vital role in balancing social inequalities by providing or subsidizing social benefits and services. This activity is called social policy. Individual countries are characterized by different welfare state models, goals, values, and groups of beneficiaries. Such a state usually supports a recovery from the difficult situation of the population, which is not, itself, able to take care of their basic needs.
In: Citizenship in Contemporary Europe, S. 107-135
In: The Routledge Handbook of the Welfare State
In: The @legitimacy of the welfare state
In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies
"Development, Welfare Policy, and the Welfare State" published on by Oxford University Press.
In: Contested Welfare States, S. 1-24
In: An Introduction to Politics, State and Society, S. 117-134
In: The Boundaries of Welfare, S. 167-204
In: Die Europäische Union - Marionette oder Regisseur?: Festschrift für Ingeborg Tömmel, S. 335-359
"This contribution adopts a state- and regulation-theoretical approach to the welfare state in Europe and the more general issue of whether the EU operates more as a marionette or regisseur. I argue that the concepts of welfare and competition state are too vague to provide a useful account of recent transformations in European statehood and propose instead that a transition is now well under way from different forms of Keynesian national welfare state to different forms of Schumpeterian workfare postnational regime. I also reject the two competing descriptions of the European Union and suggest an-other, namely, that the EU is a co-dependent co-regisseur of the multilevel metagovernance of the contradictory and conflictual process of Europeanization in a still emerging world society. In this context I further argue that, while the EU is the dominant metagovernance instance within Europe in this regard, it is only a nodal instance of multilevel metagovernance on the global stage." (extract)