The real worlds of welfare capitalism / / Robert E. Goodin [and others] [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Goodin Robert E.
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 358 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 361.6/5
• Soggetto topico: Welfare state
• Soggetto geografico: United States Social policy; Netherlands Social policy; Germany Social policy
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-[344]) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction -- pt. I. Setting the scene. 2. Reasons for Welfare. 3. Alternative institutional designs. 4. National embodiments. 5. Background expectations. 6. Testing the theories with panels. ; 16. Conclusions. ; pt. II. One standard of success: external moral criteria. 7. Promoting efficiency. 8. Reducing poverty. 9. Promoting equality. 10. Promoting integration. 11. Promoting stability. 12. Promoting autonomy. ; pt. III. Another standard of success: internal institutional criteria. 13. The United States as a liberal welfare regime. 14. The Netherlands as a social democratic welfare regime. 15. Germany as a corporatist welfare regime.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism traces how individuals fare over time in each of the three principal types of welfare state. Through a unique analysis of panel data from Germany, the Netherlands and the US, tracking individuals' socio-economic fate over fully ten years, Goodin, Headey, Muffels and Dirven explore issues of economic growth and efficiency, of poverty and inequality, of social integration and social autonomy. It is common to talk of the inevitability of tradeoffs between these goals. However, in this book the authors contend that the social democratic welfare regime, represented here by the Netherlands, equals or exceeds the performance of the corporatist German regime and the liberal US regime across all these social and economic objectives. They thus argue that, whatever one's priorities, the social democratic welfare regime is uniquely well-suited to realizing them.
• Titolo autorizzato: The real worlds of welfare capitalism
• ISBN: 1-107-11454-3; 0-511-49092-5; 0-521-59386-7; 0-511-17305-9; 0-511-15200-0; 0-511-32490-1; 1-280-43215-2; 0-511-05021-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455351503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II