Foundations of the Welfare State

Edited by Robert E. Goodin, Professor of Philosophy, Social and Political Theory and Philosophy Programs, RSSS, Australian National University and Deborah Mitchell, Fellow in Economics, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University

'. . . with The Foundations of the Welfare State, the editors have compounded a grand, magisterial collection that will become the standard reference for researchers and teachers.'

• Contents:Volume IAcknowledgements • IntroductionPart I:Rise and Fall1. T.H. Marshall (1964), ‘Citizenship and Social Class’2. Ann Shola Orloff (1993), ‘Gender and the Social Rights of Citizenship: The Comparative Analysis of Gender Relations and Welfare States’3. Claus Offe (1997), ‘Towards a New Equilibrium of Citizens’ Rights and Economic Resources?’4. Linda Gordon (1994), ‘Welfare Reform: A History Lesson’Part II:Instrumentalities5. U.S. Social Security Administration (1994), ‘Program Characteristics’6. Richard M. Titmuss (1958/1976), ‘The Social Division of Welfare: Some Reflections on the Search for Equity’7. Jacobus ten Broek and Richard B. Wilson (1954), ‘Public Assistance and Social Insurance – A Normative Evaluation’8. Robert E. Goodin (1990), ‘Stabilizing Expectations: The Role of Earnings-related Benefits in Social Welfare Policy’9. Deborah Mitchell, Ann Harding and Fred Gruen (1994), ‘Targeting Welfare’10. Theda Skocpol (1991), ‘Targeting within Universalism: Politically Viable Policies to Combat Poverty in the United States’11. James Tobin (1970), ‘On Limiting the Domain of Inequality’12. Alva Myrdal (1945), ‘In Cash or In Kind’13. Abram de Swaan (1988), ‘Workers’ Mutualism: An Interlude on Self-Management’14. Norman Johnson (1990), ‘Problems for the Mixed Economy of Welfare’15. Hilary Land (1978), ‘Who Cares for the Family?’16. World Bank (1994), ‘Overview: Averting the Old Age Crisis’17. Julian Le Grand (1991), ‘Quasi-Markets and Social Policy’18. Rudolf Klein and Jane Millar (1995), ‘Do-It-Yourself Social Policy: Searching for a New Paradigm?’19. A.B. Atkinson (1996), ‘The Case for a Participation Income’Name IndexVolume IIPart I:The Growth of an Idea: The British Welfare State1. English Poor Law of 1601 (1770), ‘Anno 43 Elizabeth, cap. 2’2. Jonathan Swift (1729/1955), ‘A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland, from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country; and For Making Them Beneficial to the Publick’3. Alexis de Tocqueville (1835/1983), ‘Memoir on Pauperism’4. Charles Booth (1891), ‘Enumeration and Classification of Paupers, and State Pensions for the Aged’5. B. Seebohm Rowntree (1902), ‘Summary and Conclusion’6. David Lloyd George (1908), ‘Old-Age Pensioners Bill. Order for Second Reading read’7. Winston Churchill (1911), ‘Speech on National Insurance Bill’8. R.H. Tawney (1943), ‘The Problem of the Public Schools’9. Sir William Beveridge (1942), ‘Social Insurance and Allied Services’10. John Maynard Keynes (1980), ‘Proposed Speech on Beveridge Report’11. Aneurin Bevan (1947), ‘National Assistance Bill. Order for Second Reading read’Part II:Three Worlds12. Gøsta Esping-Andersen (1989), ‘The Three Political Economies of the Welfare State’13. Jane Lewis (1992), ‘Gender and the Development of Welfare Regimes’ALiberal 14. Frances Perkins, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Henry A. Wallace and Harry L. Hopkins (1970), ‘The New Deal’ from ‘Report of the Committee on Economic Security’15. Margaret Weir, Ann Shola Orloff and Theda Skocpol (1988), ‘Understanding American Social Politics’BCorporatist16. Jens Alber (1986), ‘Germany: Historical Synopsis’17. Claus Offe (1992), ‘Smooth Consolidation in the West German Welfare State: Structural Change, Fiscal Policies, and Populist Politics’CSocial Democratic18. Alva Myrdal (1945), ‘Official Programs and Legislative Acts’19. Walter Korpi (1990), The Development of the Swedish Welfare State in a Comparative PerspectivePart III:Other Worlds20. Catherine Jones (1990), ‘Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan: Oikonomic Welfare States’21. Chiara Saraceno (1994), ‘The Ambivalent Familism of the Italian Welfare State’22. New Gold Plan (1989) and Previous Golden Plan (1994)23. Francis G. Castles (1996), ‘Needs-Based Strategies of Social Protection in Australia and New Zealand’24. Nancy Fraser (1994), ‘After the Family Wage: Gender Equity and the Welfare State’25. János Kornai (1992), ‘The Postsocialist Transition and the State: Reflections in the Light of Hungarian Fiscal Problems’26. Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen (1991), ‘Public Action for Social Security: Foundations and Strategy’Name IndexVolume IIIPart I:Expansion1. Asa Briggs (1961), ‘The Welfare State in Historical Perspective’2. John Dryzek and Robert E. Goodin (1986), ‘Risk-Sharing and Social Justice: The Motivational Foundations of the Post-War Welfare State’3. Phillips Cutright (1965), ‘Political Structure, Economic Development, and National Security Programs’4. Harold L. Wilensky (1975), ‘Economic Level, Ideology, and Social Structure’5. Alexander M. Hicks and Duane H. Swank (1992), ‘Politics, Institutions, and Welfare Spending in Industrialized Democracies, 1960–82’6. David Collier and Richard E. Messick (1975), ‘Prerequisites Versus Diffusion: Testing Alternative Explanations of Social Security Adoption’7. Walter Korpi (1980), ‘Social Policy and Distributional Conflict in the Capitalist Democracies. A Preliminary Comparative Framework’Part II:Aspirations and Accomplishments8. Peter Townsend (1979), ‘Conclusion II: The Explanation and Elimination of Poverty’9. David Piachaud (1981), ‘Peter Townsend and the Holy Grail’10. Gilbert Y. Steiner (1974), ‘Reform Follows Reality: The Growth of Welfare’11. Sheldon Danziger, Robert Haveman and Robert Plotnick (1981), ‘How Income Transfer Programs Affect Work, Savings, and the Income Distribution: A Critical Review’12. Charles A. Murray (1982), ‘The Two Wars Against Poverty: Economic Growth and the Great Society’13. Mary Jo Bane and David T. Ellwood (1986), ‘Slipping Into and Out of Poverty: The Dynamics of Spells’14. Nancy Fraser and Linda Gordon (1994), ‘A Geneology of Dependency: Tracing a Keyword of the U.S. Welfare State’15. Rudolf Klein (1993), ‘O’Goffe’s Tale: Or What Can We Learn from the Success of the Capitalist Welfare States?’16. A.B. Atkinson (1995), ‘The Welfare State and Economic Performance’17. Alfred Pfaller, with Ian Gough and Göran Therborn (1991), ‘The Issue’ and ‘Welfare Statism and International Competition: The Lesson of the Case Studies’Part III:Retrenchment18. Paul Pierson (1996), ‘The New Politics of the Welfare State’19. George J. Stigler (1970), ‘Director’s Law of Public Income Redistribution’20. Assar Lindbeck (1995) ‘Hazardous Welfare-State Dynamics’21. Julian Le Grand and David Winter (1986), ‘The Middle Classes and the Welfare State under Conservative and Labour Governments’22. Gary Burtless, R. Kent Weaver and Joshua M. Wiener (1997), ‘The Future of the Social Safety Net’Part IV:Rebirth on the World Stage?23. Stephan Leibfried and Paul Pierson (1992), ‘Prospects for Social Europe’24. Bob Deacon (1995), ‘Global Social Policy Actors and the Shaping of East European Welfare’25. Abram de Swaan (1992), ‘Perspectives for Transnational Social Policy’Name Index