welfare state

It's by no means clear that the United States or any other welfare-state capitalist liberal democracy is the goal.

Like others in western Europe, it had slashed post-war defence spending to pay for a burgeoning welfare state.

The liberal welfare state arose at a time when there was a serious communist option in Europe and globally.

One of the defining ideals of the European Union has been its social support system, often referred to as the European welfare state.

"Welfare dependency" is usually approached from the perspective of the New Right, using this notion to attack the welfare state regime.

A well-managed welfare state is not the enemy of globalization. Instead, some say it is the saviour.

Sweden built a large welfare state with a national health service, while the U. S. did not.

The Department of Social Security is at the heart of the welfare state.

It has built a famously generous welfare state based on eye-watering taxes, and yet avoided such mistakes as wholesale nationalisation.

And all this has been combined with a high level of social protection and a generous welfare state.

Many on the left suspect that this is simply a smokescreen for an ideologically-motivated gutting of the welfare state.

Some people raise concerns that talk of transitions is an excuse for indefinitely putting off the end of the welfare state.

His vision of an expanding welfare state was dumped. With it may have gone Mr Zapatero's political future.

With European leaders around him tottering, Mr Sarkozy is not about to embark on unpopular structural reform of the welfare state.

Stranger: i think you mean england. and yes. england is a burnt-out shell of what it used to be. it's a welfare state, a failed empire.

As to what they would have made of the modern welfare state, who can tell?

The article claims that for observing welfare state's operation and its future development, welfare politics is an important perspective.

The construction of the welfare state is part of a European narrative that conjures civilisation from chaos.

Politically, Qatar is evolving from a traditional society into a modern welfare state.

Brazil needs less of a welfare state, more investment and a cheaper currency.

In general, this newspaper's instincts lie with small government and against ever higher taxation to pay for an unsustainable welfare state.

Known as a comprehensive welfare state, Swedish economy is capitalist instead of socialist economy.

He wants to split the tax system in two, as well as the welfare state and most other public spending.

As for policies, the alliance is no longer proposing to slash taxes, nor to dismantle the welfare state.

Some four decades later, Beveridge was a Whitehall mandarin, charged with designing Britain's first comprehensive welfare state.

Its foreign policy, much like its welfare state, was obliged to face up to the consequences of globalisation.

Baby-boomers have done well out of the welfare state.

It's easy to mock the old welfare state.

Once adopted the child can gain a German passport and have access to the welfare state as well as education.

For social policy, this text points out, the 'differentiation of state and society' is the conceptual prerequisite of the welfare state.

It suffers from slow growth, high unemployment and a welfare state that saps competitiveness and pushes up taxes.

Furious at enforced cuts across the welfare state, he accused the IMF of acting only in the interest of international creditors.

Moreover, it occurs to me that one of these constraints is the welfare state.

I heard that Sweden is one of the world's best social welfare state, local residents, or students can get basic life safeguard.

In the long run, debt sustainability may require a fundamental review of the welfare state.

Many other European countries had caught up with Sweden and its monstrous welfare state and were now outperforming the country economically.

He was even more prescient about what might be called "the cultural contradictions of the welfare state" .

Yet this change also threatens to reshape the German welfare state and undermine social cohesion.

But he should have also built up the welfare state to catch those dislocated by the swings in the business cycle.

Eurozone governments have made modest reforms to the postwar welfare state and labour markets but most have muddled through.

They were very critical of marketization, privatization, the rolling back of the welfare state.

He also promised "a Britain that stands tall in the world" , educational opportunity for all and a modernised welfare state.

The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves.

Labor unions, the welfare state, protectionist policies and massive borrowing all shielded Britain from the new international competition.

And judged on policies, the Communists are being squeezed by Congress's left-leaning plans for an expanded welfare state.

Some Scandinavian upstarts frame their anti-immigrant stance as a defence of the welfare state.

Now at last during past decades technical and social progress has permitted the realization of such aspirations: the welfare state.

Europe will struggle with financing its welfare state and absorbing immigrants, whereas America will remain relatively young and vigorous.

It must also be pointed out that there were two phases to the welfare state.

In a separate essay, he added, "The welfare state and the market state are now two defunct and mutually supporting failures. "

To the left, it undermines the notion of universal benefits which is crucial to retaining widespread support for a generous welfare state.

Adema says that has inhibited the economic growth necessary to sustain the welfare state.

Greenland runs a Nordic-style welfare state on a sparsely populated lump of ice three times the size of France.

He then called on President Obama to "do a Cameron" and pursue "a radical rollback of the welfare state now. "

The American dream and the European welfare state are bending to the competitive winds of globalisation.

Just like Sweden, Denmark is a Nordic welfare state with most of its services free to the citizens.

But they also benefit from the welfare state more than before, through child benefit (increased by New Labour) and new tax credits.

In a tough message to EU leaders Mr Jin said Westerners were cosseted by the welfare state.

The insurance industry sound development benefits economic growth and improves the social welfare state.

Second, welfare state institutions should be strengthened.

They will have no realistic proposal to reduce the debt or sustain the welfare state.

Currently, the vitality of the liberal welfare state has been the focus of many discussions.

The welfare state has three meanings: welfare state as national goal, welfare state as provider and welfare state as regulator.

The thesis intends to make a study and comment on welfare state policy of Attlee government in Britain.

In absolute terms, the modern welfare state is reducing the scale of inequality by considerably more than it was in 1948.

Simply put, the entire European welfare state and way of life is under threat.

But our society is deeply committed to the welfare state (12), and hence is confronted with another aspect of the tragedy of the commons.

If you had to locate the welfare state's zenith, it would probably be the Netherlands circa 1976.

But he came to power to effect a revolution, to sweep Scotland, generous welfare state and all, to independence.

But he has balked at ending free care for the elderly, long a political symbol of Scotland's more compassionate welfare state.

The welfare state and the bond market have collided, and the welfare state is in retreat.

But it's not very relevant to high earners, for whom welfare-state benefits are inevitably small compared with their overall incomes.

Taiwan taxpayers are not now underwriting a Western European-style welfare state, but they may need to move in that direction.

You can inject market mechanisms into the welfare state to sharpen its performance.

Perhaps a better approach is to simply free the market, including the labor market, and dismantle the welfare state.

it also distrusts the 'social wage' and all other trappings of the welfare state.

A Swedish-style welfare state or basic income: which should have priority? ; Barbara R.

The euro crisis, then, says nothing about the sustainability of the welfare state.

"I believe in an America that is based upon opportunity and freedom, not President Obama's social welfare state, " said Romney.

Suo Balu extreme protest against the government's fiscal austerity, the welfare state television has also been compressed.

Compared with other big European countries, Spain has a less generous welfare state.

The worry is that the result will instead be tackier public services and a meaner welfare state.

It is of importance that the government should improve the welfare state and living conditions.

It is a socially liberal place, proud of its welfare state and ruled for 79 of the past 115 years by the centre-left Liberal party.

The article attempts to sketch the outline of the model of 'the welfare state' from the aspects of social policy and law.

The US welfare state is overburdened, now the baby boom generation is retiring.

Our incomes are far higher and in some degree we're cushioned against shocks by what remains of the post-war welfare state.

The job is to restore old disciplines, strip away decaying structures and reform the welfare state.

In Europe the welfare state expanded greatly after the Second World War.

As the welfare state expands, it can eventually undermine people's willingness to take risks or look after themselves.

In the '90s, the consequences of maintaining a corporate welfare state became too obvious to ignore.

We have to make the welfare state fiscally sustainable.

But for those on the other side of what became a national debate, Frank, 37, came to embody the work-shy who abuse Germany's welfare state.

Germans fear that a rescue of Greece would, in effect, extend their welfare state to the Mediterranean.

Whither the Welfare State, Zhou Hong, Social Sciences Academic Press, 2006.

This struggle will set the limits on Europe's welfare state.

That high level of spending goes to support the generous French welfare state, which is funded through borrowing and high taxes.

Again, I have a couple of quibbles here about whether the European welfare state is too expensive for Europe to afford.

When the recession hit around 1980, governments cut back the welfare state.

Globalization and the Future of the Welfare State Levy, Jonah.

That is due in part to the welfare state but mainly to the riches created by relatively free markets.

We are willing to grant that welfare state capitalism is the best we can hope for.

He has also trimmed the welfare state.

Little do they know that people found innovative ways of supporting each other before the welfare state existed.

After the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the liberal welfare state has been in decline.

Kornai, Janos. "The Reform of the Welfare State and Public Opinion. " American Economic Review 87, no. 2 (1997): 339-343.

Mass democracy is only 100 years old and it ushered in both the welfare state and redistributive taxation.

The state of the welfare state: German social policy between macroeconomic retrenchment and microeconomic recalibration, Stephan Leibfried

too much regulation and an excessively generous welfare state together hold back job creation and inhibit entrepreneurship;

The Inspiration of Welfare State System on China to Set up the Social Security System

How reliable is pooled analysis in political economy? The globalization-welfare state nexus revisited; Bernhard Kittel, Hannes Winner

On the Reformation of Welfare State During the Time of Mrs. Thatcher

Dual Transformation Of The German Welfare State

On the Building of British Welfare State in the Early Days after World War

Universal welfare state: theory and the case of Sweden; Andreas Bergh

With the development of the society and the establishment of the idea of welfare state, ante-marital c. . .

Decomposing Welfare: A Methodological Discourse on Welfare State with Lessons from China

Recent Reforms in the Swedish Health Care System: Implications for the Swedish Welfare State

Unlike the warfare state, the welfare state has established deep roots and myriad stakeholders;

Ages, Generations and the Social Contract: The Demographic Challenges facing the Welfare State

From Positive Welfare to Social Investment Country--About the Giddens'Welfare State Concept

Service-oriented Government in Perspective of Welfare State

Economy And Morality: The Philosophy Of The Welfare State

Development and evolution of the welfare state

and Britain began building a comprehensive welfare state

From Poor Law to Welfare State: On the Process and Function of Social Legislation in UK

Contradiction of the welfare state

Development and Dilemma of Welfare State

Welfare-State Economics: Some Suggestions to the Construction of the Social Security System in China

Breaking the Spell of the Welfare State

The Economics of the Welfare State

Welfare state's reform and development

Theories of the Welfare State

History of the Welfare State

1848 and the Rise of the Welfare State and Liberal Democracy

The Welfare State in Transition

Rule 3: limited welfare state or central transfer system

Special Symposium on the Future of the Welfare State;

The Rise of Consumer Society, the Welfare State and the Third World

Welfare state and One RMB of GDP

On the Reconstruction of Welfare State in China