The New Social Question: Rethinking the Welfare State

by Pierre Rosanvallon

How social and intellectual changes undermine our justifications for the welfare state

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691265771
• ISBN13: 9780691265773
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"