ABSTRACT
This book explores the social, historical, and philosophical bases of the welfare state. It examines the ways in which the welfare state gives expression to the deepest impulses and values of our way of life as it deals with the issues of poverty and social dislocation.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|58 pages
Justifications for Welfare
part Two|86 pages
Liberalism and the Welfare State
chapter 6|28 pages
The Logic of Liberal Equality
John Stuart Mill and the Origins of the Political Theory of Welfare State Liberalism
part Three|68 pages
The Welfare State
chapter 8|40 pages
Democracy against the Welfare State?
Structural Foundations of Neoconservative Political Opportunities
