Moral Economy of Welfare States Britain and Germany Compared
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2003
/ Engelsk
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ISBN
9780415317542
Publisert
2003-08-21
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Routledge
Vekt
498 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
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U, G, 05, 01
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Engelsk
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Innbundet
Antall sider
252
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Biographical note
Junior professor in the Graduate School of Social Sciences (GSSS), University of Bremen, Germany.<p>'The review is persuasive on both empirical and theoretical grounds and achieves its aims of adding substance to literature on attitude surveys which so often raise questions rather than provide answers ... This is no mean achievement.'</p><p><em>Social Policy</em> Issue 3, 2004. </p>
This book investigates why people are willing to support an institutional arrangement that realises large-scale redistribution of wealth between social groups of society. Steffen Mau introduces the concept of 'the moral economy' to show that acceptance of welfare exchanges rests on moral assumptions and ideas of social justice people adhere to. Analysing both the institution of welfare and the public attitudes towards such schemes, the book demonstrates that people are neither selfish nor altruistic; rather they tend to reason reciprocally.
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This book investigates why people are willing to support an institutional arrangement that realises large-scale redistribution of wealth between social groups of society.
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Self-interest and pocket-book attitudes; Chapter 3 The admixture of motives; Chapter 4 An analytical framework; Chapter 5 The state of welfare; Chapter 6 The logic of popular support for welfare schemes and their objectives; Chapter 7 The moral economy revisited;
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780415317542
Publisert
2003-08-21
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
498 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, G, 05, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
252
Forfatter