This three-volume compendium reproduces all the key texts on the welfare state - its rise and fall, its varying rationales and instrumentalities, its different forms in different periods and different places. Political history and social theory are interspersed with sociology and economics, and neo-liberal analyses sit alongside socialist and feminist ones, making for an invigorating blend of opposing perspectives. Anglo-American experiences are contrasted not just with those of Germany and Scandinavia but also with Japan and Taiwan, Italy and Hungary, Australia and South Asia, thus highlighting the many distinct styles of welfare states and the distinctive social, economic, political and cultural forces driving them. The juxtaposition of all the standard texts alongside many others which are deeply revealing but virtually unknown makes this an indispensable reference source for all serious students of the welfare state.

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Contents: Volume I Acknowledgements • Introduction Part I: Rise and Fall 1. 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: Instrumentalities 5. 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 Index Volume II Part I: The Growth of an Idea: The British Welfare State 1. 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 Worlds 12. Gøsta Esping-Andersen (1989), ‘The Three Political Economies of the Welfare State’ 13. Jane Lewis (1992), ‘Gender and the Development of Welfare Regimes’ A Liberal 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’ B Corporatist 16. 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’ C Social Democratic 18. Alva Myrdal (1945), ‘Official Programs and Legislative Acts’ 19. Walter Korpi (1990), The Development of the Swedish Welfare State in a Comparative Perspective Part III: Other Worlds 20. 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 Index Volume III Part I: Expansion 1. 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 Accomplishments 8. 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: Retrenchment 18. 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