Intimate standardisation: how the activating welfare state localises citizens and standardises welfare

The Welfare State

history of Great Britain from 1945 to the present day'. It covers not only the legislation which established what we have come to know as the Welfare State, but aspects such as population growth, geographical environment, and the development of the nationa-lised industries. The sections on health services are relatively small, but related to the wider context of national culture. Whilst the mai...

The Intergenerational Welfare State

demography is a realm of private decisions with public effects. in both highand low-fertility regimes, families make decisions that significantly influence the well-being of others. excessively rapid population growth can threaten economic and ecological viability. Population decline can threaten cultural continuity and fiscal sustainability. as Paul demeny has warned us, there is no invisible ...

The Welfare State and Competitiveness

In all modern industrial countries, redistributive expenditures are a larger component of the government budget than consumption of goods and services. In this paper, we use a general equilibrium, two-country model with exportables, importables and nontraclables to study redistribution across different types of agents in a world characterized by the presence of labor unions and distortionary ta...

The Welfare State and Redistribution

Because it taxes and spends, the welfare state is by definition redistributive, but this does not automatically entail that it creates more equality. A quick historical glance at social reform will dispel of any notion that the welfare state was pursued for egalitarian reasons. Its foundations were typically laid by conservative reformers who, like Bismarck, sought primarily to reproduce, rathe...

Normalization and the Welfare State