The future of the welfare state and political theory.(Viewpoint essay)

From: Perspectives on Political Science | Date: September 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Is the welfare state "the completion of the centuries-long movement toward full and equal citizenship," (1) as much scholarship has long held, or merely "a particular and debatable version of twentieth-century liberalism," (2) as a significant minority of analysts have sedulously maintained? In the past, such skepticism was likely to emanate from the left, with Socialists of various stripes regarding the welfare state as a temporary compromise. Leftist dissatisfaction with the welfare state can be traced back to Marx's Critique of the Gotha Program, although as recently as 1982 ...

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