Normative Foundations of the Welfare State

Höfundar: Nanna Kildal; Stein Kuhnle (Útgáfa: 1)
Normative Foundations of the Welfare State

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This is a sharp analysis of the unique Nordic welfare system with urgent lessons for governments and societies across the globe. Welfare programs and institutions tend to be analyzed as instrumental arrangements, overlooking the fact that welfare programs are essentially expressions of moral conceptions and values. This book recognises this distinction and offers analyses, perspectives and interpretations of the normative foundation of the 'Nordic welfare state model'.

These authors examine the main normative principles in this model, exploring their origins and the relationship between them. Paying particular attention to the principles of 'universalism', 'public responsibility for welfare', and 'work for all', they consider their significance for current welfare policy and question whether external economic and ideological pressures are threatening these principles.

The book is divided into three clear parts:*Part I considers the historical trajectories behind the Nordic welfare model*Part II looks more specifically on normative tensions and dilemmas in current welfare policies with a focus on women friendly welfare, attitudes to basic income and alcohol and drug misuse*Part III focuses on the possible change in the normative foundation of the Nordic welfare statesThis book will be essential reading for researchers and students of the welfare state and also to those in the fields of social policy, comparative politics and political economy.

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Útgefandi
Taylor & Francis
ISBN
9781134272822
Print ISBN
9780415429764
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
1
Höfundar
Nanna Kildal; Stein Kuhnle
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2007-05-07
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
2
Afritunar takmörkun
2

Kaflar

  • Roudedge/EUI studies in the political economy of welfare
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Contributors
  • Preface
  • 1 Introduction
  • Norms, values, motives
  • Normative and positive research
  • The conception of a Nordic (welfare) model
  • Themes and structure of the book
  • References
  • Part I Normative foundations
  • 2 The Nordic welfare model and the idea of universalism1
  • Introduction
  • What is universalism?
  • Membership
  • Allocation
  • Universal welfare—when?
  • Why universal welfare?
  • Arguments supporting universalism
  • Community-building
  • Risk exposure
  • Human dignity
  • Economic and bureaucratic efficiency
  • A social democratic myth
  • Universalism: a vision, a compromise or an overlapping consensus?
  • Structural and contextual factors conducive to Nordic universalism
  • Welfare reforms of the 1990s: quo vadis universalism?
  • Concluding remarks
  • Notes
  • References
  • 3 The normative foundations of the Scandinavian welfare states in historical perspective
  • Introduction: the concepts of folk and folkhemmet
  • Three dimensions of ‘folk’
  • The farmer figure: equality and freedom
  • The religious dimension: community without holism
  • ‘Bildning’/‘dannelse’ as instruments of self-realization
  • Notes
  • References
  • 4 The origin, development, consolidation and transformation of the Danish welfare state
  • Introduction
  • The normative foundations of the Danish welfare state
  • Concepts and frameworks
  • The onset of the Danish welfare state
  • The idea of a ‘welfare society’: the alliance between the Social Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party 1905–1947
  • The welfare society as a means against communism 1947–1970s
  • Today
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • 5 Nordic social politics in the late twentieth century
  • Introduction
  • Analytical and methodological considerations
  • Nordic welfare state development in the late twentieth century
  • Denmark
  • Finland
  • Norway
  • Sweden
  • Nordic reform agendas in the late twentieth century
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
  • Part II Normative tensions
  • 6 The women-friendly welfare states revisited1
  • Introduction
  • The normative foundation of the women-friendly welfare state
  • Gender equality in mainstream welfare state research
  • Feminist visions of gender equality
  • 1 The universal breadwinner model
  • 2 The caregiver-parity model
  • 3 The universal caregiver model
  • Globalization, welfare state restructuring and gender equality
  • Note
  • References
  • 7 Universalism in the age of workfare
  • Introduction
  • The questionnaire
  • A survey of the results
  • Negative Income Tax (NIT)
  • Basic Income (BI)
  • ‘Participation Income’ (PI)
  • Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)
  • ‘More stringent conditions’
  • ‘Third-sector employment’
  • ‘Responsible for unemployment’
  • ‘Level of BI’
  • Explaining attitudes towards basic income
  • Why does a basic income thrill the Finns more than the Swedes?
  • Note
  • References
  • 8 Universalism under re-construction
  • Introduction
  • From punishment to persuasion
  • Coercion questioned
  • The sobriety ideal questioned—changes in drug treatment
  • Contracting out services—and decision-making
  • Conclusion: de-politicization as a threat to universalism
  • Notes
  • References
  • 9 After equality? Normative innovations from Lindbeck to Svegfors—towards a dynamic conservatism?1
  • Introduction: equality and the limits of the welfare state
  • The Lindbeck Commission: economic efficiency and growth
  • The Social State project: civil society and human dignity
  • The LO Social Justice Commission: power/knowledge
  • The Palme Welfare Balance Sheet Commission: towards a fourth road?
  • The Svegfors Responsibility Commission: towards dynamic social conservatism or a fifth normative model?
  • Concluding remarks: a normative turn or social innovations—towards a new conflictual consensus?
  • Note
  • References
  • Part III Towards a paradigm shift?
  • 10 Changing normative bases of the Nordic welfare state? The case of pension provision in Norway
  • Introduction
  • The original bases of the National Insurance
  • Traditions of distributive justice and existing pension institutions
  • Altered ways of framing the pension problem
  • From a social right perspective towards an individual savings perspective in the pension discourse?
  • Nordic pension system reforms and some implications for distributive justice
  • Conclusion: universalism challenged and less equality in old age?
  • Notes
  • References
  • 11 Paradigm drift in the Swedish welfare state?1
  • Introduction: a crisis in the Swedish welfare state?
  • Policy paradigms and the normative bases of welfare
  • Policy paradigms, institutions and structure
  • Paradigmatic and institutional change
  • Equality, cooperation and collective responsibility
  • Equality and efficiency
  • Cooperation versus competition
  • Collective responsibility and individual engagement
  • Social problem/goal focus
  • Policy discourses and reforms in housing and health
  • Housing and health—welfare changes in the 1990s in Stockholm
  • Rental housing policy
  • Health care in transition
  • Paradigm drift and institutional change in Swedish welfare
  • Competition over cooperation
  • Collective responsibility undermined?
  • Paradigm drift to system shift?
  • Notes
  • References
  • Governmental publications
  • Newspapers and periodicals
  • 12 Normative foundations of the Icelandic welfare state
  • Introduction
  • Societal background to the emergence of the welfare state
  • Old age pensions: universalism on a tight budget
  • The political context
  • Developments in the postwar period
  • General characteristics of the contemporary Icelandic pension system
  • Analysing the Icelandic case: normative foundations and the shift towards liberalism
  • Recent changes and their consequences
  • Iceland and ‘the three worlds of welfare’
  • Notes
  • References
  • 13 Welfare as if deliberative democracy mattered
  • Introduction
  • Deliberative democracy
  • Socio-economic conditions of deliberative democracy
  • The new third way of activation
  • Concluding remarks: beyond the (new) Third Way?
  • References
  • Index