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Throughout the modernized world, a massive, bureaucratic apparatus of state welfare has been built up since the 1940s. This book examines the major deficiencies of the welfare state: the incoherence of its underlying philosophy; its redundancy in an era of prosperity and progress; its costs; its inefficiency; and the harm it does to those it should help by driving them into underclass dependency. Practical proposals for radical reform are outlined, combining self-reliance, privatization, and a new deal for the deprived and disadvantaged.
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Book Title: Welfare or Welfare State?
Book Subtitle: Contradictions and Dilemmas in Social Policy
Authors: David Marsland
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24576-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1996
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-24576-5Published: 12 June 1996
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 262