The moral economy of welfare states Britain and Germany compared /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mau, Steffen, 1968-
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
Series:Routledge/EUI studies in the political economy of welfare ; 5.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Self-interest and pocket-book attitudes
  • Beneficial involvement
  • Rising demands and ungovernability
  • Legitimation crisis: value for meaning
  • The welfare backlash and a rational opposition
  • Entrenched interests and 'varieties of capitalism'
  • Policy reforms: designing institutions for knaves
  • The admixture of motives: broadening the perspective
  • Preference formation beyond self-interest
  • Institutions: material incentives and social norms
  • The moral economy of welfare state institutions
  • The homo reciprocus
  • Policy designs and the repertoire of motives
  • Summary
  • An analytical framework
  • Welfare institutions and public attitudes
  • Survey data and methods
  • The state of welfare
  • A comparative framework
  • The welfare legacy in Britain
  • Laissez-faire and new liberalism
  • Moving towards a Beveridgean social service state
  • A welfare consensus, social rights and symptoms of crisis
  • The neo-conservative era
  • The activating welfare state
  • The welfare legacy in Germany
  • Conservative authoritarianism
  • The social market economy
  • Party responses to institutional drawbacks
  • The impact of unification and new pressures on the welfare state
  • Welfare regimes and their moral economies: some preliminary thoughts
  • The logic of popular support for welfare schemes and their objectives
  • Redistribution in our heads: givers and takers
  • Interests and interpretations
  • Assessing the redistributive impact
  • A legitimate agenda for redistribution?
  • Paying taxes: value for money and the fairness issue
  • Burdensome taxation and the disapproval of redistribution
  • Conclusion.