The End of the Welfare State?: Responses to State Retrenchment (Routledge E.S.a. Studies in European Society, 3)

Throughout the world, politicians from all the main parties are cutting back on state welfare provision, encouraging people to use the private sector instead and developing increasingly stringent techniques for the surveillance of the poor. Almost all experts agree that we are likely to see further constraints on state welfare in the 21st Century. Gathering together the findings from up-to-date attitude surveys in Europe East and West, the US and Australasia, this revealing book shows that, contrary to the claims of many experts and policy-makers, the welfare state is still highly popular with the citizens of most countries. This evidence will add to controversy in an area of fundamental importance to public policy and to current social science debate. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 List of figures......Page 8 List of tables......Page 10 List of contributors......Page 13 'Hollowing out' versus the new interventionism: Public attitudes and welfare futures PETER TAYLOR-GOOBY......Page 14 Changing labour markets, new social divisions and welfare state support: Denmark in the 1990s JRGEN GOUL ANDERSEN......Page 26 The middle class and welfare state retrenchment: Attitudes to Swedish welfare policies STEFAN SVALLFORS......Page 47 Who wants to preserve the 'Scandinavian service state'? Attitudes to welfare services among citizens and local government elites in Finland, 1992 6 HELENA BLOMBERG AND CHRISTIAN KROLL......Page 65 Welfare state opinions among citizens, MP-candidates and elites: Evidence from Finland PAULI FORMA......Page 100 Progressive taxation farewell? Attitudes to income redistribution and taxation in Sweden, Great Britain and the United States JONAS EDLUND......Page 119 Within and without: Labour force status and political views in four welfare states GEORGE MATHESON AND MICHAEL WEARING......Page 148 Need, citizenship or merit: Public opinion on pension policy in Australia, Finland and Poland PAULI FORMA AND OLLI KANGAS......Page 174 Egalitarianism, perception of conflicts and support for transformation in Poland KRZYSZTOF ZAGRSKI......Page 203 And what if the state fades away? The civilising process and the state ZSUZSA FERGE......Page 231 Index......Page 254 Using the findings from up-to-date attitude surveys in Europe East and West, the US and Australasia, this book shows that, contrary to the claims of experts and policy-makers, the welfare state is still highly popular amongst citizens Using the findings from up-to-date surveys in Europe, the US and Australasia, this book argues that, contrary to the claims of experts and policy makers, the welfare state is still highly popular amongst citizens