A welfare state is a form of government in which the state protects and promotes the economic and social well-being of its citizens, resting on principles of equal opportunity, equitable distribution of wealth, and public responsibility for citizens unable to secure the minimal provisions of a good life on their own. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Etzioni communitarian theory addressed how to balance individual rights with social responsibility within welfare-state policy design.
Giddens Third Way politics proposed reforming the welfare state around active social investment rather than passive benefit provision.
Edin Making Ends Meet examined how low-income single mothers navigated welfare-state benefits alongside informal and wage income after 1990s welfare reform.
Desmond Poverty, by America argued that the shape of the American welfare state, including its hidden subsidies to the well off, actively sustains poverty.
Fraser work on redistribution and recognition analyzed how welfare-state policy debates split along, and could better integrate, economic and identity-based claims.
The welfare state redistributive programs are funded principally through taxation.
Beck risk society thesis analyzed how individualization and new global risks strain the institutional foundations of the twentieth-century welfare state.
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A welfare state is a form of government in which the state protects and promotes the economic and social well-being of its citizens, based upon the principles of equal opportunity, equitable distribution of wealth, and public responsibility for citizens unable to avail themselves of the minimal provisions for a good life.
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