Three Roads to the Welfare State

Liberalism, Social Democracy and Christian Democracy
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4473-6032-2
Verlag: Policy Press

Buch, Englisch, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 570 g

The development of social policy in Europe is explored in this accessible intellectual history and analysis of the welfare state.

From the Industrial Revolution onwards, the book identifies three important concepts behind efforts to address social concerns in Europe: social democracy, Christian democracy and liberalism. With guides to the political and ideological protagonists and the beliefs and values that lie behind reforms, it traces the progress and legacies of each of the three traditions.

For academics and students across social policy and the political economy, this is an illuminating new perspective on the welfare state through the last two centuries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fanning, Bryan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Three roads

2. The invention of laissez faire

3. Utopian socialism

4. Reform liberalism and technocracy

5. Catholic social thought versus modernity

6. The case for social democracy

7. Social engineering versus democracy

8. The rise of neoliberalism

9. European Christian democracy

10. Legacies

Über Autor(innen)

Fanning, Bryan
Bryan Fanning is Professor of Migration and Social Policy at University College Dublin.