The New Social Question: Rethinking the Welfare State

by Pierre Rosanvallon

The welfare state has come under severe pressure internationally, partly for the well-known reasons of slowing economic growth and declining confidence in the public sector. According to the influential social theorist Pierre Rosanvallon, however, there is also a deeper and less familiar reason for the crisis of the welfare state. He shows here that a fundamental practical and philosophical justification for traditional welfare policies--that all...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691016402
• ISBN13: 9780691016405
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.8" x 10.0"