The moral economy of welfare states Britain and Germany compared /: Britain and Germany compared. (2003)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Steffen Mau.
• Other Names: Mau, Steffen, 1968-
• 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.
• Publisher Details: London New York : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2003
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 238 p.), ill
• Subjects: 330.126 M447; Welfare economics; Welfare state; Social policy; Welfare economics; Welfare state; Great Britain -- Social policy; Germany -- Social policy; Germany; Great Britain; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780203590614; 0203590619; 9781134370559; 1134370555; 9781134370504; 1134370504; 9781134370542; 1134370547; 9780415317542; 0415317541; 9780415758598; 0415758599
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [208]-231) and index.
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