The development of the British welfare state

The vast and complicated welfare state of the USA, which is not usefully understood as either public or private, is presented. Its changing structure is a a result of three forces that may be called dependence, devolution, and markets. Those changes have profound implications for citizenship and democracy in the USA.

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Ausnahmesegment

PROKLA Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft ◽

10.32387/prokla.v48i191.82 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 48 (191) ◽

Author(s):

Barbara Schönig

Keyword(s):

Welfare State ◽

Social Housing ◽

Integrated Approach ◽

New Paradigm ◽

Development Models ◽

Form And Function ◽

Institutional Organization ◽

National Welfare ◽

And Function ◽

The Welfare State

Going along with the end of the “golden age” of the welfare state, the fordist paradigm of social housing has been considerably transformed. From the 1980s onwards, a new paradigm of social housing has been shaped in Germany in terms of provision, institutional organization and design. This transformation can be interpreted as a result of the interplay between the transformation of national welfare state and housing policies, the implementation of entrepreneurial urban policies and a shift in architectural and urban development models. Using an integrated approach to understand form and function of social housing, the paper characterizes the new paradigm established and nevertheless interprets it within the continuity of the specific German welfare resp. housing regime, the “German social housing market economy”.

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