Generating Equality in the Welfare State: The Swedish Experience (Scandinavian Library) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8200029913 ISBN 13: 9788200029915

Publisher: Aschehoug AS, 1990

Synopsis

The evolution of the welfare state in Europe can be seen as a major experiment in social organization. In this book a number of economists and sociologists set out the lessons that can be learned from the welfare state experiment, as evidenced by the Swedish case. The authors look at the welfare state from the perspective of distribution and redistribution and present a diverse and complex picture of its equality-generating capacities. This illuminating study will be of special value to sociologists, economists, and political scientists.

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Synopsis

The evolution of the welfare states in Western Europe can be seen as a major experiment in social organization. In this book a number of economists and sociologists attempt to discover what lessons can be learned from the welfare state, based on the Swedish experience. The authors look at the welfare state from the perspective of distribution and redistribution. The welfare state is defined broadly, so as to include a great variety of measures aimed at affecting distributional outcomes and generating equality. The research presented demonstrates that the politics and policies of the welfare state have had significant effects on distributional outcomes. The authors also show the limitations and problems met with when trying to generate equality. Sometimes there are significant undesired side-effects of policies, sometimes good distributional intentions are implemented through policies that yield quite different outcomes from those intended, and sometimes policies are simply impotent. The book presents a diverse and complex picture of the equality-generating capacity of the welfare state. Sociologists, economists, and political scientists.

Edition details

• Publisher: Aschehoug AS
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8200029913
• ISBN 13: 9788200029915
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 345
• Editor: Persson Inga