The Enabling State: Modern Welfare Capitalism in America

by Neil Gilbert, Barbara Gilbert

Overview

Over the last two decades new arrangements have emerged for the finance and delivery of social welfare in the United States and other industrial democracies. Moving beyond the conventional paradigm of the welfare state, these arrangements form an alternative model. This study details a fresh vision of social welfare transfers--how they are delivered, and whom they benefit. The authors explore the use of private enterprise and market-oriented approaches to the delivery of social provisions, and examine how welfare benefits are derived from the full range of modern social transfers including tax expenditures, credit subsidies, and those induced by regulatory activity. Reappraising the modern boundaries of social welfare, this book provides insights into the structure and dynamics of a novel social model that will open new avenues for scientific study and public debate.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195363180
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	10/19/1989
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

University of California, Berkeley

Editorial Reviews

"A thorough, sophisticated account of the transformation of the welfare state in the United States. The Enabling State is the most mature effort available, and should prove useful both to policymakers and students of human services and political economics. In an area strewn with ideology, the Gilberts have succeeded in offering a sober assessment of how the welfare state has changed dramatically in the twentieth century, especially in the past few decades...a first-rate understanding of the intricacies of modern welfare capitalism...a model of excellent social science research."—Society

"[An] excellent book. It puts the American Welfare State in perspective as a public-private venture as well as addressing the complexity of the American Welfare State and community compared to its European counterparts."—David A. Hardcastle, University of Maryland, Baltimore

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