Searching for Welfare North and South
In our opening chapter, we briefly present the history of the welfare state. While it is common to attribute its beginnings to the Beveridge Report from 1942, it is obvious that this important institution has much changed during the more than 89 years of
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Searching for New Welfare Models
Rolf Solli • Barbara Czarniawska Peter Demediuk • Dennis Anderson
Searching for New Welfare Models Citizens’ Opinions on the Past, Present and Future of the Welfare State
Rolf Solli School of Public Administration University of Gothenburg Göteborg, Sweden
Barbara Czarniawska Gothenburg Research Institute University of Gothenburg Göteborg, Sweden
Peter Demediuk Victoria University Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Dennis Anderson Brandon University Brandon, MB, Canada
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Prologue
We believe that the ways welfare has been, is, and will be organized are both intriguing and important; many scholars think so, too. The idea behind our study was to contrast, or rather complement, the traditional studies of the welfare sector that either collect statistics (which is useful), conduct surveys (also useful, but mostly for sampling the dominant discourse), or engage in speculative reasoning (mostly done by economists and political scientists). We wanted to elicit opinions and reflections from citizens representing different generations in three welfare states; our goal was to illustrate the ways they think about the organization of welfare. We believe that we have realized that goal.
Contents
1 Searching for Welfare North and South 1 2 Welfare in Canada: Now and in 20 Years11 3 Welfare in the South: In 20 Years and Now33 4
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