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Social Justice, Legitimacy and the Welfare State
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Social Justice, Legitimacy and the Welfare State

BookHardcover
Ranking172531inSozialwissenschaften
CHF193.00

Description

Addresses issues of justice and legitimacy in the context of welfare state transformation. This book demonstrates that Western welfare state is not at risk of losing support or encountering fundamental opposition, but faces challenges such as growing social and ethnic diversity, social risks, fiscal constraints and contested notions of justice.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-7546-4939-7
Product TypeBook
BindingHardcover
Publication countryUnited Kingdom
Publishing date17/10/2007
Edition1. A.
Pages288 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 156 mm, Height 234 mm
Weight566 g
IllustrationsFarb., s/w. Abb.
Article no.5391165
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.23137774
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Author

Steffen Mau is Professor of Political Sociology and Director of the Graduate School of Social Sciences (GSSS) at the University of Bremen, Germany. He works in the fields of comparative welfare research, social inequality, transnationalization and European integration. Recent publications include The Moral Economy of Welfare States. Britain and Germany Compared (2003); and Challenges to the Welfare State (3 volumes, edited with S. Leibfried, 2007). Benjamin Veghte is Assistant Professor and Director of Studies at the Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany. He works in the fields of US social policy, politics, social inequality and political mobilization, all in historical-comparative context. He has published on the issues of social housing, health care, social assistance and trade-based social policy.

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