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Professor Chatterjee's book is a remarkably helpful aid to comprehending the stunning
achievements, structural limitations, and unrealized promise of the welfare state, arguably the
greatest social and political invention of the 20th century. Interdisciplinary and international in
its scope, this erudite and engaging volume not only reviews the growth and expansion of the
welfare state in the current century, but also previews the challenges it must face in the next.
The book is delightfully shorn of ideological shibboleths.
Shanti K. Khinduka, PhD
Dean
George Warren Brown School of Social Work Washington University, St. Louis
In this important book, Pranab Chatterjee contends that the ideas legitimizing state
intervention in social welfare are no longer relevant to the social, political, and economic
realities of our time. His proposals for repackaging these ideas challenge conventional wisdom and
will evoke welcome discussions.
James Midgley, PhD
Dean and Specht Professor
School of Social Welfare
University of California, Berkeley
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