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Repackaging the Welfare State

Pranab Chatterjee

ISBN: 0-87101-304-5. 1999. Item #3045. 208 pages.

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Earlier studies of the welfare state, relying on various single social science perspectives, led to disciplinary tunnel vision. Repackaging the Welfare State corrects this myopia by offering an interdisciplinary approach to conceptualizing a welfare state: one that balances a civil society and cares for vulnerable citizens, yet incorporates wealth-building activities.

Special Features

• Multidisciplinary analysis of the functions, promises, and performance of welfare states
• Exploration of how social policy has sometimes served conflicting, contradictory ends
• Evaluation of the styles of welfare state redistribution
• Lessons learned in the 20th century
• Re-envisioning the welfare state

Written for students and instructors of social policy, this book brings true scholarship to bear on the issues of the welfare state.