The Withering of the Welfare State

Foreword; R.Plant From Citizen Solidarity to Self-Serving Inequality; J.Hayward PART I: PUBLIC INTERVENTION: THE ROLES OF STATE AND SOCIETY The Rationale for the Retreat From the Welfare State; N.O'Sullivan Expanding the Role of Civil Society; E.Monaghan Multicultural Society and the Welfare State; B.Parekh PART II: VICISSITUDES OF DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS AND PROCESSES Constitutional Change and the Tensions of Liberal Democracy; P.Norton The Welfare State and its Discontents; M.Beech Bureaucracy: Disregarding Public Administration; E.Page PART III: INTRUSIVE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MARKET FORCES From Financing Social Insurance to Insuring Financial Markets: The Socialisation of Risk and the Privatisation of Profit in an Age of Irresponsibility; S.Lee & R.Woodward The Environmental Challenge to Nation States: From Limits to Growth to Ecological Modernisation; R.Wurzel Inequality, Social Policy and the State Welfare Regime: the Case of Brazil; M.Doctor PART IV: THE RESIDUAL WARFARE STATE Human Welfare in a World of States: Reassessing the Balance of Responsibility; J.Morris & N.Wheeler Free-Riding? The Cost of Defence: The United Kingdom, France and the United States of America; C.Martin Conclusion: Remaining the Welfare State?; J.Connelly