Middle Class and Welfare State: Making Sense of an Ambivalent Relationship (Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy) - Hardcover

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Barbehön, Marlon; Geugjes, Marilena; Haus, Michael

 
9780367322373: Middle Class and Welfare State: Making Sense of an Ambivalent Relationship (Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy)
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ISBN 10: 0367322374 ISBN 13: 9780367322373
Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

This book examines the relationship between the middle class and the welfare state.

Taking an interpretive approach which understands the middle class as a socially constructed category, it combines discourse analysis, welfare state theory, and interpretive policy analysis in an innovative way to investigate how the middle class becomes a meaningful object of public debates and policymaking. Comparing Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, the book reconstructs the prevalent images and meanings of the middle class from each country’s public debates and tracks how the middle classes with their various meanings and characteristics are entangled with the identification of societal problems, the articulation of political demands, and the construction of welfare policies. Ultimately, it shows how the formation and consolidation of different welfare regimes can be interpreted as specific ways of solving the puzzle of how to incorporate the middle class in the construction of a welfare state consensus.

This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of comparative welfare state research, policy analysis, political sociology, political theory, and European and comparative politics.

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About the Author

Marlon Barbehön is Research Assistant (Postdoc) at the Institute of Political Science, Heidelberg University, Germany.

Marilena Geugjes is Research Assistant at the Institute of Political Science, Heidelberg University, Germany.

Michael Haus is Professor of Modern Political Theory at the Institute of Political Science, Heidelberg University, Germany.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0367322374
ISBN 13 
9780367322373
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
216

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