The Welfare State and Equality: Structural and Ideological Roots of Public ExpendituresUniversity of California Press, 1974 - 151 pages Monograph on the determinants of public expenditure for social security and welfare in affluent societys - explores the interplay of affluence, economic system, political system and welfare state ideology, and considers the effect of social structure on divergent spending patterns, particularly in the OECD countries. Bibliography pp. 139 to 147. |
Contents
THE WELFARE STATE AS A RESEARCH PROBLEM | 1 |
ECONOMIC LEVEL IDEOLOGY AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE | 15 |
3 | 44 |
DIVERSITY AND UNIFORMITY AMONG RICH COUNTRIES | 50 |
THE MILITARY WAR AND THE WELFARE STATE | 70 |
The Citizens Army and the Welfare State | 80 |
THE IMPACT OF THE WELFARE STATE | 86 |
Does One Program Drive | 105 |
Welfare State versus Welfare Society | 116 |
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affluent age of population age of system American analysis Appendix Austria Belgium benefits budgets bureaucratic capita GNP capitalist comparable correlation Czechoslovakia differences Diversity and Uniformity economic growth effects egalitarian Enrollment ratios equality Factor Cost family allowances figures fraction GNP at Factor health and welfare higher education housing hypothesis ideology income distribution increase indirect taxes measures middle mass military expenditures military spending mobility modern Netherlands OECD original incomes path coefficients path diagram pensions Percent of GNP percentage political system poor Pryor Real Welfare redistribution regressive Research Problem rich countries SIPRI social security effort social security spending Social Structure Economic Soviet Structure Economic Level survey Sweden Switzerland time-series tion Trends twenty-two countries U.S. dollars UNECE unemployment Uniformity among Rich United Kingdom USSR variables versus welfare effort welfare programs welfare spending Welfare The Impact welfare-state development welfare-state laggards welfare-state leaders West Germany Wilensky workers