WARFARE & WELFARE C

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-19-877959-9
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 496 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 904 g

While the first half of the 20th century was characterized by total war, the second half witnessed, at least in the Western world, a massive expansion of the modern welfare state. A growing share of the population was covered by ever more generous systems of social protection that dramatically reduced poverty and economic inequality in the post-war decades. With it also came a growth in social spending, taxation and regulation that changed the nature of the modern state and the functioning of market economies. Whether and in which ways warfare and the rise of the welfare state are related, is subject of this volume.

Distinguishing between three different phases (war preparation, wartime mobilization, and the post-war period), the volume provides the first systematic comparative analysis of the impact of war on welfare state development in the western world. The chapters written by leading scholars in this field examine both short-term responses to and long-term effects of war in fourteen belligerent, occupied, and neutral countries in the age of mass warfare stretching over the period from ca. 1860 to 1960. The volume shows that both world wars are essential for understanding several aspects of welfare state development in the western world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Al, Obinger Et

Obinger, Herbert

Petersen, Klaus

Starke, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wohlfahrtsökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Herbert Obinger, Klaus Petersen, and Peter Starke: Introduction: Studying the Welfare-War Nexus

- 2: Peter Starke: The Impact of War on Welfare State Development in Germany

- 3: Herbert Obinger: War Preparation, Warfare, and the Welfare State in Austria

- 4: Maurizio Ferrera: Italy: Wars, Political Extremism, and the Constraints to Welfare Reform

- 5: Timothy B. Smith: The Two World Wars and Social Policy in France

- 6: Gregory J. Kasza: Welfare Policy and War in Japan

- 7: Robert P. Saldin: Foreign Policy on the Home Front: War and the Fevelopment of the American Welfare State

- 8: David Edgerton: War and the Development of the British Welfare State

- 9: Christopher Lloyd and Tim Battin: Reinforcements for the Wage-Earners' Welfare State? The Effects of the Two World Wars on Australia's Model of Welfare

- 10: Pauli Kettunen: Wars, Nation, and the Welfare State in Finland

- 11: Klaus Petersen and Nils Arne Sørensen: From Military State to Welfare State: The War-Welfare Nexus in Denmark, 1848-1950s

- 12: Dirk Luyten: Diverging Paths: The Impact of the Two World Wars on Welfare State Development in Belgium and the Netherlands

- 13: Matthieu Leimgruber: War and Social Policy Development in Switzerland, 1870-1990

- 14: Michael Shalev and John Gal: Bullets and Benefits in the Israeli Welfare State

- 15: Herbert Obinger, Klaus Petersen, Carina Schmitt, and Peter Starke: War and Welfare States Before and After 1945: Conclusions and Perspectives

Über Autor(innen)

Herbert Obinger is Professor of Comparative Public and Social Policy, University of Bremen. His research focuses on comparative welfare state research and comparative political economy. His publications include The Political Economy of Privatization in Rich Democracies (with Carina Schmidtt and Stefan Traub, OUP, 2016), The Welfare State as Crisis Manager (with Peter Starke, Alexandra Kaasch, and Franca van Hooren, Palgrave 2013), and The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State (co-edited with Francis G. Castles, Jane Lewis, Stephan, Leibfried, and Christopher Pierson, OUP, 2010).

Klaus Petersen is Professor of Welfare History and Director of the Danish Centre for Welfare Studies, University of Southern Denmark. His research focuses on welfare state history, the Nordic model of welfare, and on contemporary Danish history. He has published in a number of leading journals including Journal of European Social Policy and the British Journal of Political Science.

Peter Starke is Associate Professor at the Danish Center for Welfare Studies, University of Southern Denmark. His research is in comparative welfare state research, qualitative and mixed methodology and political economy. His publications include Radical Welfare State Retrenchment (2008) and The Welfare State as Crisis Manager (2013), as well as articles in journals such as Policy Studies Journal, the Journal of European Public Policy, and Politics & Society.