Is The Welfare State Justified

Author : Daniel Shapiro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139466011
Total Pages : 13 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Is the Welfare State Justified? written by Daniel Shapiro and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-09 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Daniel Shapiro argues that the dominant positions in contemporary political philosophy - egalitarianism, positive rights theory, communitarianism, and many forms of liberalism - should converge in a rejection of central welfare state institutions. He examines how major welfare institutions, such as government-financed and -administered retirement pensions, national health insurance, and programs for the needy, actually work. Comparing them to compulsory private insurance and private charities, Shapiro argues that the dominant perspectives in political philosophy mistakenly think that their principles support the welfare state. Instead, egalitarians, positive rights theorists, communitarians, and liberals have misunderstood the implications of their own principles, which in fact support more market-based or libertarian institutional conclusions than they may realize. Shapiro's book is unique in its combination of political philosophy with social science. Its focus is not limited to any particular country; rather it examines welfare states in affluent democracies and their market alternatives.

Author : Robert E. Goodin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691022796
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reasons for Welfare written by Robert E. Goodin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1988-08-21 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Goodin passionately and cogently defends the welfare state from current attacks by the New Right. But he contends that the welfare state finds false friends in those on the Old Left who would justify it as a hesitant first step toward some larger, ideally just form of society. Reasons for Welfare, in contrast, offers a defense of the minimal welfare state substantially independent of any such broader commitments, and at the same time better able to withstand challenges from the New Right's moralistic political economy. This defense of the existence of the welfare state is discussed, flanked by criticism of Old Left and New Right arguments that is both acute and devastating. In the author's view, the welfare state is best justified as a device for protecting needy--and hence vulnerable--members of society against the risk of exploitation by those possessing discretionary control over resources that they require. Its task is to protect the interests of those not in a position to protect themselves. Communitarian or egalitarian ideals may lead us to move beyond the welfare state as thus conceived and justified. Moving beyond it, however, does not invalidate the arguments for constantly maintaining at least the minimal protections necessary for vulnerable members of society.

Author : J. Donald Moon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000309878
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Responsibility, Rights, And Welfare written by J. Donald Moon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the social, historical, and philosophical bases of the welfare state. It examines the ways in which the welfare state gives expression to the deepest impulses and values of our way of life as it deals with the issues of poverty and social dislocation.

Author : Lesley A. Jacobs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781383016604
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rights and Deprivation written by Lesley A. Jacobs and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses whether the redistribution of welfare state programme resources from some citizens to others can be justified by a theory of moral rights. The book maintains that it is possible to defend programmes on the grounds that they are required to fulfil the moral rights of individual citizens.

Author : Charles J. G. Sampford
Publisher : London ; Wolfeboro, N.H. : Croom Helm
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law, Rights, and the Welfare State written by Charles J. G. Sampford and published by London ; Wolfeboro, N.H. : Croom Helm. This book was released on 1986 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human rights, by H.J. McCloskey

Author : Bo Rothstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521598934
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just Institutions Matter written by Bo Rothstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-02-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Bo Rothstein seeks to defend the universal welfare state against a number of important criticisms which it has faced in recent years. He combines genuine philosophical analysis of normative issues concerning what the state ought to do with empirical political scientific research in public policy examining what the state can do. Issues discussed include the relationship between welfare state and civil society, the privatization of social services, and changing values within society. His analysis centres around the importance of political institutions as both normative and empirical entities, and Rothstein argues that the choice of such institutions at certain formative moments in a country's history is what determines the political support for different types of social policy. He thus explains the great variation among contemporary welfare states in terms of differing moral and political logics which have been set in motion by the deliberate choices of political institutions. The book is an important contribution to both philosophical and political debates about the future of the welfare state.

Author : Phil Harvey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440845352
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Human Cost of Welfare written by Phil Harvey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is the welfare system failing to work for so many people? This book examines the problems with the current welfare system and proposes reforms to create a smarter, smaller system that helps people improve their lives through rewarding work. Unlike other books on welfare, this one draws on the stories of more than 100 welfare recipients who are trapped in a system that keeps them underemployed and unemployed. The authors present case studies that show that being a part of a welfare program can actively result in the recipient having to limit their job efforts for fear of losing government assistance. The book examines all major U.S. welfare systems, including Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, SNAP, Medicaid, and others. The authors begin by exploring the nation's basic poverty issues and examining the relationship between work and happiness. Next, they zero in on specific welfare programs, reporting both on their dollar costs and on the ways that they fail enrollees. The book then concludes with strategies for addressing the shortcomings of the current U.S. welfare system. This book is appropriate for readers interested in public policy, government programs, welfare, and cultural shifts in America. It adds a new perspective to the existing body of welfare scholarship by systematically assessing the impact of welfare on the receivers themselves.

Author : William A. Galston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139491067
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poverty and Morality written by William A. Galston and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multi-authored book explores the ways that many influential ethical traditions - secular and religious, Western and non-Western - wrestle with the moral dimensions of poverty and the needs of the poor. These traditions include Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism, among the religious perspectives; classical liberalism, feminism, liberal-egalitarianism, and Marxism, among the secular; and natural law, which might be claimed by both. The basic questions addressed by each of these traditions are linked to several overarching themes: what poverty is, the particular vulnerabilities of high-risk groups, responsibility for the occurrence of poverty, preferred remedies, how responsibility for its alleviation is distributed, and priorities in the delivery of assistance. This volume features an introduction to the types, scope, and causes of poverty in the modern world and concludes with Michael Walzer's broadly conceived commentary, which provides a direct comparison of the presented views and makes suggestions for further study and policy.

Author : Fred Groh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429866038
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Due Respect written by Fred Groh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1998, this critical analysis of welfare state morality argues that all its essential claims are untenable: that need-based distribution of goods is inconsistent with its rationale; that morality can be given a rational grounding from which follows an exceptionally strong right of personal sovereignty; that cognitive self-sufficiency in the ordinary adult shows capacity to deal adequately with the problems of life. The same arguments lay the basis for an alternative social morality giving the individual his due respect. Among the topics are subjective and objective approaches to moral justification; when moral intuitions must be rejected; how it can be rational to act against reason; personal autonomy and the irresistible impulse; and why and when expropriation is morally permissible. A summary chapter applies the main conclusions to the poverty problem, comparing welfare state morality and the alternative in action.

Author : Roger Backhouse
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019067668X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberalism and the Welfare State written by Roger Backhouse and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberalism and the Welfare State investigates the thinking of liberal economists about welfare, focusing on Britain, Germany and Japan, each of which had a different tradition of economic thinking and different institutions for welfare provision.