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
3 | 50 |
Contents Stratification and Mobility | 54 |
4 | 70 |
5 | 86 |
Noneconomic Effects | 96 |
Does One Program Drive | 105 |
Welfare State versus Welfare Society | 116 |
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affluent age of population age of system analysis Appendix Austria average 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 hypothesis ideology income distribution increase indirect taxes liberal democracy measures middle mass military expenditures military spending mobility modern Netherlands original incomes path coefficients path diagram pensions Percent of GNP percentage political system poor Pryor public consumption expenditures Real Welfare redistribution regressive Research Problem rich countries SIPRI social security effort social security expenditures social security spending Social Structure Economic Soviet Sweden Switzerland time-series tion twenty-two countries U.S. dollars unemployment Uniformity among Rich United United Kingdom USSR variables versus welfare backlash welfare effort welfare programs welfare spending welfare-state development welfare-state laggards welfare-state leaders West Germany Wilensky workers