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While social welfare programs, often inspired by international organizations, are spreading throughout the world, the more far-reaching notion of governmental responsibility for the basic well-being of all members of a political society is not, although it remains a feature of Europe and the former British Commonwealth. The welfare state in the European sense is not simply an administrative arrangement of various measures of social protection but a political project embedded in distinct cultural traditions. Offering the first accessible account in English of the historical development of the European idea of the welfare state, this book reviews the intellectual foundations which underpinned the road towards the European welfare state, formulates some basic concepts for its understanding, and highlights the differences in the underlying structural and philosophical conditions between continental Europe and the English-speaking world. Franz-Xaver Kaufmann is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy and Sociology at the University of Bielefeld. Publisher's note Content: Pioneers of social reformism: Sismondi, List, Mill -- German origins of a theory of social reform: Hegel, Stein and the idea of 'social policy' -- Christian influences on social reform -- Welfare internationalism before the welfare state: the emergence of social human rights -- Social security: the leading idea and its problems -- Social policy intervention: elements of a sociological theory -- First-order and second-order social policies -- The state and the production of welfare -- National welfare state traditions and the European social model -- Towards a theory of the welfare state -- The welfare state's achievements and continuing problems -- Human assets and demographic challenges to the welfare state -- Solidarity and redistribution under the pressure of international competition -- What comes after the classic welfare state?