Abstract
This article is the result of a study grounded on concepts to reflect on the relationship between State and Social Policy in the capitalist society. It adopts bibliographical research and literature review carried out within the study project during qualification leave. The main goal is to think about how social policy is configured, taking into account its economic determinants, as the result of a political and theoretical debate about the role of the State in capitalist societies between the main theoretical references within social sciences: liberal thinking and Marxist thinking.
Highlights
This article is the result of a study grounded on concepts to reflect on the relationship between State and Social Policy in the capitalist society
This paper examines the main concepts of State that steer both theoretical discussions and the design and formulation of social policies in capitalist societies
This paper examines the argument that the subsequent development of these and connected theories was steered by the development of class warfare and the very reconfiguration of the State
Summary
ABSTRACT – This article is the result of a study grounded on concepts to reflect on the relationship between State and Social Policy in the capitalist society. We start from the assumption that the theoretical and political debate about the main concepts of State in this society is responsible both for the State's different types of intervention and relationships with society as well as for how public and social policies are put together Such theoretical and political debate has steered the very process which organized the modern States. Since the 17th century the absolutist states' centralization, authoritarianism, and arbitrary ruling greatly hampered the expansion of commercial and manufacturing activities, the individual freedoms sought by the bourgeoisie, and the end of the nobility's privileges This context – where the capitalist mode of production was cementing itself, the bourgeoisie was rising politically, the State was being reconfigured as the first representative governments took office and workers became a political force – was the environment that allowed the main modern theories of State to be created.
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