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The End of the Welfare State?

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2015

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Goodin, Robert

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LSE Academic Publishing

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The founders themselves would have been keenly sensitive to the diversity of motives and models underlying what we now know as ‘the’ welfare state. Bismarck’s conservative corporatist version built on frankly neo-feudal foundations to buy social peace. Alva and Gunnar Myrdal’s social democratic model aimed to generate more Swedish babies (Tilton 1990). The British welfare state was principally the product of two renegade Liberals, Lloyd George and Beveridge (Beveridge 1942). The American welfare state was a patrician Democrat’s noblesse oblige response to the Great Depression, relieving distress among the old and disabled, the widowed and the chronically ill (Hofstadter 1948, ch. 12)

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/272901

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Conference paper

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Social Policy Futures: Wreckage, Resilience or Renewal

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10.1017/CHOL9780521563543.011

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2099-12-31

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