Three roads to the welfare state : liberalism, social democracy and Christian democracy /
Bryan Fanning.
Bok Engelsk 2021 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (268 pages)
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| Utgave | 1st ed.
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| Opplysninger | Front Cover -- Three Roads to the Welfare State: Liberalism, Social Democracy and Christian Democracy -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- About the author -- Preface -- 1 Three roads -- 2 The invention of laissez faire -- Reformation roads -- Divisions of labour -- Hunger games -- The shadow of laissez faire -- 3 Utopian socialism -- Robert Owen and New Lanark -- Parallelograms and blank slates -- Precarious islands of socialism -- New moral worlds -- Little Jerusalems -- 4 Reform liberalism and technocracy -- Liberalism versus democracy -- Utilitarianism and the limits of liberty -- A helping hand to the invisible hand -- The masses and the classes -- 5 Catholic social thought versus modernity -- Anti-modernism and the Kulturkampf -- Aquinas versus modernity -- Catholic utopias -- The limits of corporatism -- 6 The case for social democracy -- Democratic roads to socialism -- Social democracy and Swedish modernity -- Folkhemmet and the welfare state -- The upper limits of the welfare state -- 7 Social engineering versus democracy -- Reshape the things to come -- The crowbar of social reform -- Two dogs, different tales -- 8 The rise of neoliberalism -- The God that failed and other stories -- The visible hand -- Politics and propaganda -- 9 European Christian democracy -- Christianity and democracy -- The social market economy -- Certain ideas of Europe -- 10 Legacies -- Endgames -- The inevitability of social policy -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.. - Bryan Fanning traces the development of European welfare states in this accessible analysis of social change from the Industrial Revolution onwards. The book explores evolutions through the lens of three traditions, social democracy, Christian democracy and liberalism, with insights into the people and beliefs that influenced each.
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| ISBN | 1-4473-6033-8. - 1-4473-6034-6. - 1-4473-6035-4
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