LEADER 04225oam 2200673I 450 001 9910451125303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-134-37055-5 010 $a0-415-75859-9 010 $a1-280-07396-9 010 $a0-203-59061-9 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203590614 035 $a(CKB)1000000000254993 035 $a(EBL)182616 035 $a(OCoLC)437055612 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000303592 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11265556 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000303592 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10296032 035 $a(PQKB)10854486 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC182616 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL182616 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10097518 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL7396 035 $a(OCoLC)1000434098 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000254993 100 $a20180331d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe moral economy of welfare states $eBritain and Germany compared /$fSteffen Mau 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2003. 215 $a1 online resource (249 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge/EUI studies in the political economy of welfare ;$v5 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-203-34885-0 311 $a0-415-31754-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [208]-231) and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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. 330 $aThis book investigates why people are willing to support an institutional arrangement that realises large-scale redistribution of wealth between social groups of society. Steffen Mau introduces the concept of 'the moral economy' to show that acceptance of welfare exchanges rests on moral assumptions and ideas of social justice people adhere to. Analysing both the institution of welfare and the public attitudes towards such schemes, the book demonstrates that people are neither selfish nor altruistic; rather they tend to reason reciprocally. 410 0$aRoutledge/EUI studies in the political economy of welfare ;$v5. 606 $aWelfare economics 606 $aWelfare state 607 $aGreat Britain$xSocial policy 607 $aGermany$xSocial policy 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWelfare economics. 615 0$aWelfare state. 676 $a330.12/6 700 $aMau$b Steffen$f1968,$0948688 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451125303321 996 $aThe moral economy of welfare states$92144498 997 $aUNINA