État et politiques sociales : contribution à une théorie néo-institutionnaliste

Abstract

Public social policies, more often designated by the term "welfare state", have been explained variously : as being the logical consequence of democratization, in terms of Marxism, from a neoinstitutionalist perspective centered on the state, and with a hypothesis based on social learning. This critical analysis of theories about public social policies seeks to complete these approaches by taking into consideration the variability, depending on the country, of the societal paradigm. This thesis is grounded in observations of social policy trends in France and Great-Britain.