Beyond the Welfare State? by Christopher Pierson

Beyond the Welfare State? by Christopher Pierson

For politicians and policy-makers almost everywhere, the future of the welfare state has forced itself to the top of the political agenda. Beyond the Welfare State? represents a sophisticated and comprehensive introduction to the problems with which these policy-makers must struggle. This new edition of Beyond the Welfare State? has been thoroughly revised and updated drawing on the latest theoretical developments and empirical evidence. It remains the most comprehensive and sophisticated guide to the condition of the welfare state in a time of rapid and sometimes bewildering change. The opening chapters develop a scholarly but accessible review of competing views of the historical and contemporary roles of the welfare state. This evaluation draws upon the most recent empirical research and gives full weight to feminist, ecological and 'anti-racist' critiques. It also develops a clear account of globalization and its contested impact upon existing welfare regimes. The book constructs a distinctive history of the international growth of welfare states and offers a comprehensive account of recent developments from 'crisis' to 'structural adjustment'. The final chapters bring the story right up to date with an assessment of the important changes effected in the 1990s and the prospects for welfare states in the new millennium. This is essential reading for second- and third-year undergraduates and postgraduates in politics, social administration and public policy, sociology and economics, as well as the more general reader interested in the future of the welfare state.

When it was first published, Beyond The Welfare State was much the best introductory analysis of the theory and practice of the modern caring stateThis meticulously revised and updated version is even better. Professor Francis G. Castles, Research School of Social Sciences, the Australian National University Students thirsty to understand the wider dimensions of welfare state policy would do well to turn to Beyond the Welfare State? The New Political Economy of Welfare. Its sweep is wide, it is well-ordered and up to date. Most welcome of all, it is clear. The Times Higher Education Supplement

Christopher Pierson, Professor of Politics, University of Nottingham

Chris Pierson has been professor of politics at the University of Nottingham since 1996. He has also held visiting positions at the Johns Hopkins University and the University of California, at the Australian National University in Canberra and at the Hansewissenschaftskolleg in Lower Saxony. He
is best-known for his work on welfare states (including the three editions of Beyond the Welfare State? and The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State, edited with Castles, Leibfried, Lewis and Obinger) but always as part of a much broader interest in the dynamics of social change, which included
Socialism After Communism: The New Market Socialism (1995) and Hard Choices: Social Democracy in the 21st Century (2001). He has spent most of this millennium working on the history of ideas of property in the Latin West, convinced that this is the under-considered terrain in which the roots of
many of our modern discontents are to be found. The two volumes of Just Property are the first fruits of this project.

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Title	Beyond the Welfare State?
Author	Christopher Pierson
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Publisher	Polity Press
Year published	1998-08-24
Number of pages	248
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