Democracy and the welfare state : the two Wests in the age of austerity / edited by Alice Kessler-Harris and Maurizio Vaudagna.

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Book
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English
Published/​Created
  • New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
  • ©2018
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xii, 403 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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    After World War II, states on both sides of the Atlantic enacted comprehensive social benefits to protect working people and constrain capitalism. A widely shared consensus specifically linked social welfare to democratic citizenship, upholding greater equality as the glue that held nations together. Though the "two Wests," Europe and the United States, differ in crucial respects, they share a common history of social rights, democratic participation, and welfare capitalism. But in a new age of global inequality, welfare-state retrenchment, and economic austerity, can capitalism and democracy still coexist? In this book, leading historians and social scientists rethink the history of social democracy and the welfare state in the United States and Europe in light of the global transformations of the economic order. Separately and together, they ask how changes in the distribution of wealth reshape the meaning of citizenship in a post-welfare-state era. They explore how the harsh effects of austerity and inequality influence democratic participation. In individual essays as well as interviews with Ira Katznelson and Frances Fox Piven, contributors from both sides of the Atlantic explore the fortunes of the welfare state. They discuss distinct national and international settings, speaking to both local particularities and transnational and transatlantic exchanges.
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-371) and index.
    Contents
    • Historians interpret the welfare state, 1975-1995 / Maurizio Vaudagna
    • Reconciling European integration and the national welfare state : a neo-Weberian perspective / Maurizio Ferrera
    • Democracy after the welfare state : an interview / Ira Katznelson
    • Privatization and self-responsibility : patterns of welfare-state development in Europe and the United States since the 1990s / Christian Lammert
    • Paradise lost? : social citizenship in Norway and Sweden / Gro Hagemann
    • Social citizenship in the U.S. Affordable Care Act / Beatrix Hoffman
    • In the shadow of employment precarity : informal protection and risk transfers in low-end temporary staffing / Sébastien Chauvin
    • From the welfare state to the carceral state : whither social reproduction? / Mimi Abramovitz
    • Family matters : social policy, an overlooked constraint on the development of European citizenship / Chiara Saraceno
    • Transforming gendered labor policies in Sweden and the United States, 1960s-2000s / Ann Shola Orloff
    • Breadwinner liberalism and its discontents in the American welfare state / Robert O. Self
    • Nationalism's challenge to European citizenship, democracy, and equality : potential for resistance from transnational civil society / Birte Siim
    • Poor-people power : the state, social provision, and American experiments in democratic engagement / Marisa Chappell
    • Grassroots challenges to capitalism : an interview / Frances Fox Piven.
    ISBN
    • 9780231180344 (cloth : alk. paper)
    • 0231180349 (cloth : alk. paper)
    • 9780231180351 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    • 0231180357 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    LCCN
    2017007541
    OCLC
    987711629
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