{"product_id":"the-real-worlds-of-welfare-capitalism-paperback-9780521596398","title":"The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (Paperback) 9780521596398","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book traces how individuals fare over time in each of the three principal types of welfare state.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRobert E. Goodin (Author), Bruce Headey (Author), Ruud Muffels (Author), Henk-Jan Dirven (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521596398, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 30 September 1999\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e372 pages, 35 b\/w illus.  17 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.3 x 2.4 cm, 0.607 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This book will engage readers intrigued with the different forms that capitalism can take, and reformers searching for ways in which it can be made more humane...There is much to recommend here...Footnotes provide rich extensions of points of dispute and some alternative views, and useful links to related material...this study provides eye-opening examples of other ways to do capitalism...For a world that seems to be growing tired of neoliberal precepts, this study of other ways to live with capitalism will be most welcome.\"   Review of Radical Political Economics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism traces how individuals fare over time in each of the three principal types of welfare state. Through a unique analysis of panel data from Germany, the Netherlands and the US, tracking individuals' socio-economic fate over fully ten years, Goodin, Headey, Muffels and Dirven explore issues of economic growth and efficiency, of poverty and inequality, of social integration and social autonomy. It is common to talk of the inevitability of tradeoffs between these goals. However, in this book the authors contend that the social democratic welfare regime, represented here by the Netherlands, equals or exceeds the performance of the corporatist German regime and the liberal US regime across all these social and economic objectives. They thus argue that, whatever one's priorities, the social democratic welfare regime is uniquely well-suited to realizing them.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Setting the Scene: 2. Reasons for welfare\u003cbr\u003e 3. Alternative institutional designs\u003cbr\u003e 4. National embodiments\u003cbr\u003e 5. Background expectations\u003cbr\u003e 6. Testing the theories with panels\u003cbr\u003e Part II. One Standard of Success: External Moral Criteria: 7. Promoting efficiency\u003cbr\u003e 8. Reducing poverty\u003cbr\u003e 9. Promoting equality\u003cbr\u003e 10. Promoting integration\u003cbr\u003e 11. Promoting stability\u003cbr\u003e 12. Promoting autonomy\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Another Standard of Success: Internal Institutional Criteria: 13. The United States as a liberal welfare regime\u003cbr\u003e 14. The Netherlands as a social democratic welfare regime\u003cbr\u003e 15. Germany as a corporatist welfare regime\u003cbr\u003e 16. Conclusions\u003cbr\u003e Appendix tables\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Social welfare \u0026amp; social services [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social welfare \u0026amp; social services\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20welfare%20\u0026amp;%20social%20services%20%5BJKS%5D%22\"\u003eJKS\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46129207804184,"sku":"9780521596398","price":32.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521596398i.jpg?v=1691666346","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-real-worlds-of-welfare-capitalism-paperback-9780521596398","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}