The Double Crisis of the Welfare State and What We Can Do About It
The Double Crisis of the Welfare State and What We Can Do About It
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福利国家的双重危机以及我们能做些什么
DOI：
10.1057/9781137328113
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发表时间：
2013
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
P. Taylor
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作者：
P. Taylor
国民保健制度、教育、社会保健、地方政府、就业服务、社会住房和穷人福利面临着一个决心在英国公共生活中永久巩固激进和分裂的自由主义的政府的重大挑战。这本书分析了直接的挑战，从轻率削减，承担最沉重的妇女，家庭和穷人，并从根本和分支重组，将碎片和私有化的大部分公共服务。它将这一点置于不平等加剧和人口老龄化带来的长期压力的背景下。它表明，一个更人道和慷慨的福利国家，将建立包容性是可能的，通过结合政策，限制儿童贫困，促进医疗保健和教育的更平等成果，在社会福利中引入更大的贡献因素，投资于更好的儿童和老年人护理，并解决低工资和工作场所的权利。它表明，这些政策是负担得起的，因为它们遵循了英国和其他发达国家福利国家支出的长期轨迹。它分析了可以组织起来支持这些转变的政治力量，并表明，在政治领导下，福利国家可以吸引群众的支持。
The NHS, education, social care, local government, employment services, social housing and benefits for the poor face major challenges from a government determined to entrench a radical and divisive liberalism permanently in British public life. This book analyses the immediate challenges from headlong cuts that bear most heavily on women, families and the poor, and from a root-and-branch restructuring which will fragment and privatise the bulk of public services. It sets this in the context of escalating inequalities and the longer-term pressures from population ageing. It demonstrates that a more humane and generous welfare state that will build inclusiveness is possible by combining policies that limit child poverty, promote more equal outcomes from health care and education, introduce a greater contributory element into social benefits, invest in better child and elder care and address low wages and workplace rights. It shows that such policies are affordable because they follow the long-term trajectory of welfare state spending across the UK and other developed countries. It analyses the political forces that can be marshalled to support these shifts and shows that, with political leadership, the welfare state can attract mass support.