Culture and welfare state: values and social policy in comparative perspective

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Contents:1. The Culture of the Welfare State: Historical and Theoretical ArgumentsWim van Oorschot, Michael Opielka and Birgit Pfau-EffingerPART I: CULTURAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE WELFARE STATE: IDEAS OF THE GOOD SOCIETY2. Liberalism, Citizenship and the Welfare StateJulia O'Connor and Gillian Robinson3. Social-democratic Values in the European Welfare StatesSteinar Stjerno4. Conservatism and the Welfare State: Intervening to PreserveKees van Kersbergen and Monique Kremer5. Christian Foundations of the Welfare State: Strong Cultural Values in Comparative PerspectiveMichael OpielkaPART II: WORLDS OF WELFARE CULTURE6. European and American Welfare Values: Case-studies in Cash Benefits ReformRobert Walker7. Is There a Specific East-Central European Welfare Culture?Zsuzsa Ferge8. Welfare Policy Reforms in Japan and Korea: Cultural and Institutional FactorsIto PengPART III: CULTURAL CHANGE AND WELFARE REFORM9. Cultural Change and Path Departure: The Example of Family Policies in Conservative Welfare StatesBirgit Pfau-Effinger10. Cultures of Activation: The Shifting Relationship between Income Maintenance and Employment Promotion in the Nordic ContextBjorn Hvinden11. Unsettled Attachments: National Identity, Citizenship and WelfareJohn Clarke and Janet FinkPART IV: POPULAR WELFARE VALUES AND BELIEFS12. European Scope-of-Government Beliefs: The Impact of Individual, Regional, and National CharacteristicsJohn Gelissen13. Popular Deservingness Perceptions and Conditionality of Solidarity in EuropeWim van Oorschot14. Values of Work and Care Among Women in Modern SocietiesDetlev Lueck and Dirk Hofacker