Some contradictions of the modern welfare state *

2018 ◽  
pp. 147-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claus Offe
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Modern Welfare State

scholarly journals Understanding Social Insurance: Risk and Value Pluralism in the Early British Welfare State

2021 ◽  
pp. 106591292199467
Author(s):  
Rachel Z. Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Welfare Policies ◽  
Perceptions Of Risk ◽  
Mathematical Probability ◽  
Policy Tool ◽  
Theoretical Support ◽  
Modern Welfare State ◽  
Normative Reconstruction

This article seeks to make two contributions to the understanding of social insurance, a central policy tool of the modern welfare state. Focusing on Britain, it locates an important strand of theoretical support for early social insurance programs in antecedent developments in mathematical probability and statistics. While by no means the only source of support for social insurance, it argues that these philosophical developments were among the preconditions for the emergence of welfare policies. In addition, understanding the influence of these developments on British public discourse and policy sheds light on the normative principles that have undergirded the welfare state since its inception. Specifically, it suggests that the best model, or normative reconstruction, of social insurance in this context is a value-pluralist one, which pursues efficiency and equality or solidarity, grounded in group-based perceptions of risk.

Mill and Green on the Modern Welfare State

1960 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry Holloway
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Modern Welfare State

scholarly journals Administrative Traditions – and the Problem of the “Trilemma”

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Noralv Veggeland
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Policy Formation ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Integration Policy ◽  
European Welfare State ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
The Us ◽  
Modern Welfare State ◽  
Political Economic

The purpose of this paper is to show that the administration of a modern welfare state is a complex thing. The statemeets the challenge of the “trilemma”. Social policy formation does fundamentally relay on the outcome of the debateabout the future of the European welfare state. From the perspective of the political-economic approach, social policyformation is a dependent variable to both European integration policy and national administrative traditions. However,the national state does not act in a sovereign manner neither in relation to the European Union (EU) nor to domesticmember actors. All of them confronted with a so-called “trilemma” aspect, a term first introduced by the US socialscientist Torben Iversen (2005). In this paper, I follow up his analysis and shows the difficult choices that confrontspolicy-makers on the different administrative levels because of this trilemma and its trade-offs. New PublicManagement ideas are dominant and for the time being confront the other ruling administrative social traditions ofWestern Europe. In this paper, I conclude that a European agreement on a social choice, related to the overcome oftrilemma, must be accomplished to save the welfare state model as we know it. The traditional Nordic welfare statemodel gives an example.

Vernetzung als regierungstechnologisches Rettungsprogramm?

2017 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingo Bode
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Professional Boundaries ◽  
Professional Groups ◽  
Social Disintegration ◽  
The Social ◽  
Modern Welfare State ◽  
Silver Bullet ◽  
Institutional Fragmentation

AbstractWithin the infrastructure of the modern welfare state, networking and collaboration across organizational and professional boundaries are far and wide considered as being deficient. At the same time, many experts refer to them as a silver bullet for overcoming institutional fragmentation and recent movements towards exacerbated social disintegration, even as governments tend to enforce collaboration formally. Using the example of child protection in Germany, this article draws on a mix of theories of government technologies in order to elucidate reasons for problems with actual collaborative arrangements in the social welfare sector, suggesting that, due to certain bottom-up dynamics, enforced networking in this sector is unlikely to be achieved by the policies under study. The analysis is based on evidence from case studies in five local settings, illustrating how major professional groups and organizations are dealing with evolving regulation and related challenges.

scholarly journals Immigration policy and the modern welfare state, 1880–1920

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 463-477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Kalm ◽  
Johannes Lindvall
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Immigration Policies ◽  
German Empire ◽  
Modern Welfare State ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Welfare State

This article puts contemporary debates about the relationship between immigration policy and the welfare state in historical perspective. Relying on new historical data, the article examines the relationship between immigration policy and social policy in Western Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when the modern welfare state emerged. Germany already had comparably strict immigration policies when the German Empire introduced the world’s first national social insurances in the 1880s. Denmark, another early social-policy adopter, also pursued restrictive immigration policies early on. Almost all other countries in Western Europe started out with more liberal immigration policies than Germany’s and Denmark’s, but then adopted more restrictive immigration policies and more generous social policies concurrently. There are two exceptions, Belgium and Italy, which are discussed in the article.

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