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Not Only the Poor: The Middle Classes and the Welfare State book cover

1st Edition

Not Only the Poor The Middle Classes and the Welfare State

Edited By Robert E Goodin, Julian Le Grand Copyright 1987
266 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge
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Originally published in 1987 Not Only the Poor explores the self-interested involvement of the non-poor in the welfare state, particularly the middle class. Using evidence from Britain, America, and Australia, they show that the non-poor were crucial in the founding of the welfare state, and in all three countries the non-poor benefit extensively from key welfare programmes, including those... Read more

List of Tables and Figures

Preface

Part I: Background

1. Introduction, Robert E. Goodin and Julian Le Grand

2. Measuring the Distributional Impact of the Welfare State: Methodological Issues, Julian Le Grand

Part II: The Origins of the Welfare State

3. Risk Sharing and Social Justice: The Motivational Foundations of the Post-War Welfare State, Robert E. Goodin and John Dryzek

Part III: The Operation of the Welfare State

4. US Anti-Poverty Policy and the Non-Poor: Some Estimates and their Implications, Robert H. Haveman

5. The Middle-Class Use of the British Social Services, Julian Le Grand

6. Creeping Universalism in the Australian Welfare State, Robert E. Goodin and Julian Le Grand

7. Distributional Biases in Social Service Delivery Systems, Robert E. Goodin, Julian Le Grand and D.M. Gibson

Part IV: The Challenge to the Welfare State

8. The Middle Classes and the Defence of the British Welfare State, Julian Le Grand and David Winter

9. The Expansion and Contraction of the American Welfare State, Russell L. Hanson

Part V: Conclusion

10. Not Only the Poor, Robert E. Goodin and Julian Le Grand

About the Author

References

Index

Biography

Robert E Goodin, Julian Le Grand

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