scholarly journals Governmental Illegitimacy and Incompetency in Canada and Other Liberal Nations: Implications for Health

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Raphael ◽  
Morris Komakech ◽  
Toba Bryant ◽  
Ryan Torrence
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Relative Role ◽  
Health It ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Economic Elites ◽  
Developed Nations ◽  
Made In ◽  
The Welfare State

The welfare state literature on developing nations is concerned with how governmental illegitimacy and incompetency are the sources of inequality, exploitation, exclusion, and domination of significant proportions of their citizenry. These dimensions clearly contribute to the problematic health outcomes in these nations. In contrast, developed nations are assumed to grapple with less contentious issues of stratification, decommodification, and the relative role of the state, market, and family in providing economic and social security, also important pathways to health. There is an explicit assumption that governing authorities in developed nations are legitimate and competent such that their citizens are not systematically subjected to inequality, exploitation, exclusion, and domination by elites. In this article, we argue that these concepts should also be the focus of welfare state analysis in developed liberal welfare states such as Canada. Such an analysis would expose how public policy is increasingly being made in the service of powerful economic elites rather than the majority, thereby threatening health. It would also serve to identify means of responding to these developments.

Nouveaux principes de référence et différenciation des arbitrages politiques : le cas des politiques à l'égard des sans-emploi

1998 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gérard Boismenu ◽  
Pascale Dufour
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
The State ◽  
Unemployed People ◽  
Level Of Abstraction ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Political Orientations ◽  
Reference Et ◽  
The Welfare State

AbstractThis article underlines three principles of reference that renew discourse on and comprehension of the role of the state in social protection towards unemployed people. At a certain level of abstraction, those principles of reference are present in many countries. They lead to label and to understand situations in different terms of which we were familiar during the Welfare State apogee. At the same time, they permit and open up to various political orientations and mechanisms of implementation. This dualism is emphasized. Four countries are referenced for this discussion: Canada, France, Germany and Sweden. The study considers the way in which problems are stated in their principles and the implementation of programmes. Policies and programmes implemented reveal logics of intervention which suggest different ways to consider the articulation between the « integrated area » and the « excluded area » of the society.

2. Before the welfare state

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Garland
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Moral Economy ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Social Provision ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Welfare State

Welfare states emerged in western nations at the end of the 19th century and were fully established in the middle decades of the 20th. But collective social provision in one form or another has been characteristic of societies throughout human history. ‘Before the welfare state’ outlines pre-capitalist societies and explains the social roots of welfare, the expanding role of the state, the end of the old Poor Laws, and the reaction against laissez-faire. By the end of the 19th century, the question of social provision was caught up in a struggle between two opposing principles: the logic of free-market liberalism versus the logic of moral economy and social protection.

Changing Expectations? The Change in the Role of the Welfare Ministry in the Regulation of Personal Social Services

2020 ◽  
Vol 691 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-173
Author(s):  
Lihi Lahat
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Regulatory Role ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
Historical Changes ◽  
The Welfare State

Many welfare states have increased their regulatory role, but little attention has been given to historical changes in the regulatory role of government ministries. This study embraces a mezzo perspective and explores the regulatory role of the Welfare Ministry of Israel in the field of personal social services, asking the following questions: 1) What are the changes in regulatory expectations versus practices over the last five decades? and 2) How can we explain these changes and their outcomes? The study is based on the qualitative analysis of comptroller reports and other resources. It reveals a growing gap between society’s expectations of the Ministry as a regulator and the Ministry’s capacities over five decades. Notably, it points to the variety of regulatory spaces that have appeared in a regulatory welfare state. The Israeli case is relevant for other countries that have experienced processes of outsourcing and privatization in the welfare state and whose ministries had to change their role.

scholarly journals Welfare Theories in Family Politics

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-52
Author(s):  
Katalin Kristó
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Role ◽  
The State ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Family Politics ◽  
Special Approach ◽  
The Welfare State

The welfare state is one of the most frequently used social scence terms that causes arguments or political discussions. The role of the state in the development of its social role has changed through time, and parallel with this, the term welfare state has changed too, as well as theories regarding the welfare state. In this study, the author’s main goal is to summarise the different theories of the welfare state. Following this, a special approach will be shown in terms of the categorization of the welfare state to show its role in a special welfare: i.e. in what ways does it supports families. This view has not received much attention in detail in the literature so far.

Gender

2021 ◽  
pp. 345-363
Author(s):  
Ann Shola Orloff ◽  
Marie Laperrière
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Social Citizenship ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Intersectionality Theory ◽  
Feminist Perspectives ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Welfare State

This chapter traces how scholars have conceptualized the relationship between gender and welfare states, examining significant differences among mainstream, gender-aware, and feminist perspectives. We discuss how feminist scholarship has broadened scholars’ understanding of social citizenship, how gender structures, and is structured by, the policies and institutions of the welfare state, and how women and men participate in social politics. We describe how insights from intersectionality theory and the adoption of more fluid conceptions of gender have shaped investigations of social policies and politics, bringing greater accuracy to analyses of the gendered effects of welfare states. Finally, we turn to analyses of how welfare states have reorganized in response to crises of care. We conclude by discussing normative debates over the role of welfare states in reducing gender inequalities and supporting people’s choices about care and employment.

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger E. Backhouse ◽  
Bradley W. Bateman ◽  
Tamotsu Nishizawa ◽  
Dieter Plehwe
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Effective Role ◽  
The Welfare State

This volume reveals the complexity of the positions towards the welfare state taken by economists, most of whom could be counted as liberal in one way or another. Liberal economists were both at the heart of the original development of the welfare state and at the center of the counter movement against the welfare state. The nature of the interaction between liberalism and the welfare state, and the role of economists, varied greatly between countries. Initially, the structure of the welfare states in different nations made it difficult for transnational neoliberal ideas to have much influence in minimizing the size and nature of the welfare state. Today, however, one brand of free-market, anti-state neoliberalism plays a particularly effective role in attacks on the welfare state across countries. History shows that is not the only form of liberalism or the only ways that liberals might see the welfare state.

scholarly journals Negara Kesejahteraan dan Maqasid Syariah: Analisis Pemikiran Jamaluddin Athiyyah

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Syamsuri Syamsuri ◽  
Dadang Irsyamuddin
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Active Role ◽  
The State ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Welfare State

The discourse about the Welfare State is interesting. This article aims to conduct in-depth analysis related to the concept of the welfare state and its relation to maqasid sharia according to Jamaluddin Athiyyah. The method used in this study is qualitative with a literature approach, namely conducting a study of the literature surrounding the welfare state and the Maqasid sharia. The conclusion of this study is that Athiyyah provides an overview of the division of tasks of the government in ensuring the welfare of its people into four dimensions, namely: individuals, families, society and humanity. Furthermore it was stated that the three basic principles of maqasid sharia to create prosperity would not be fulfilled but rather with the active role of the State.

scholarly journals Austerity: Neoliberal dreams come true?

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 461-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Farnsworth ◽  
Zoë Irving
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
New Politics ◽  
Counter Narrative ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Social ◽  
The International Monetary Fund

The 2008 global economic crisis paved the way for the construction of a new, elite-driven, capital-centric, shrunken welfare state project founded on ideology disguised as pragmatism and objective ‘truths’. Today, welfare states exist in a context in which a new politics of austerity sets the parameters of the debate. Austerity incorporates the neoliberal desire to shrink the (social welfare) state, deregulate labour markets and emphasise private markets as the drivers of growth, enabling a reconfiguration of the interests of capital, the needs of people and the role of the state. The new politics of austerity looks like a ‘dream come true’ for neoliberals. Or is it? There is also a powerful counter-narrative that suggests that the global crisis exposed the fundamental weaknesses and limitations of neoliberalism and forced policy makers to question core principles and change direction. Focusing on the International Monetary Fund (IMF), perhaps the pre-eminent global neoliberal interlocutor, and using quantitative textual analysis, the article locates some evidence of movement, but little to suggest that the fundamental assumptions of neoliberalism have been displaced.

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