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Approaches to the Welfare State examines the contradictions and conflicts that
characterize the welfare state by exploring three distinct orientations to the study of social
welfare policy: social welfare as a function of conflicting values and ideologies; social welfare
as a camouflage for inherent class, gender, and interest-group conflicts; and social welfare as a
function of the technological bases of society. Pranab Chatterjee discusses the assets and
liabilities of the "unlimited growth' and "limited" welfare states and compares the viability of
the traditional entitlement-oriented welfare state and the means-tested welfare state.
This book offers solid information for beginning comparative social policy, sociology, and
political science coursesby covering the basics of social welfare and social welfare policy; it is
also a firstrate text for advanced courses. Chapters address the welfare state in a world system,
welfare as an ideological compromise, a camouflage for conflict, and a function of
industrialization; who is right; what is right; and more. No other book addresses the social
welfare state with as much depth or international focus.
Social workers, sociologists, political scientists, economists, and professionals in other
disciplines will benefit from this book's in-depth exploration of the welfare state in the First,
Second, and Third Worlds.
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