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.
Encyclopedia.com (Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography and International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences): Lester Frank Ward
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In short, Ward anticipated the development of modern governmental responsibilities (the welfare state), planning, and the expansion of formal education as a funnel for maximum participation by citizens in public affairs.
Richard Titmuss (Wikipedia)
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His books and articles of the 1950s helped to define the characteristics of Britain's post World War II welfare state and of a universal welfare society, in ways that parallel the contributions of Alva Myrdal and Gunnar Myrdal in Sweden.
Jurgen Habermas (Wikipedia)
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According to Habermas, a variety of factors resulted in the eventual decay of the public sphere, including the growth of a commercial mass media, which turned the critical public into a passive consumer public; and the welfare state, which merged the state with society so thoroughly that the public sphere was squeezed out.
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