Model: SS0372
ISBN: 9780761942030
Authors: CLARKE, JOHN
Publishers: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC.
Price: $1,500.00JMD
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ISBN: 9780761942030
Author: Clarke, john
Publisher: Sage publications inc.
Within living memory of many, the idea of the welfare state was a political and social goal against which particular governments measured their success. Now, under attacks by neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism, they are pinioned as examples of failed collectivism and denounced as obstacles to globalization. Clarke (Open U., UK) explores the change in the thinking, arguing that people should think again, and think better about welfare states; how they might be more than one thing at once; how they may be experiencing multiple and contradictory pressures for change; and how the dominant tendencies and trends might be being resisted, deflected, or refused by other social forces.