Some Historical Dimensions of the Welfare State 'Crisis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2113203 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Johnson (0000-0003-3342-3504) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 443-465 |
| Publication date | 1986-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Social Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-2794 • E-ISSN: 1469-7823 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s004727940001549x |
| OpenAlex | W2060208850 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 21 |
Arguments about the harmful effects of government intervention in welfare issues, which seemed peripheral to the rapid expansion of state welfare in the twentieth century, have recently achieved the status of a new orthodoxy. This article examines the historical development of economic, administrative and ideological criticisms of state welfare in Britain and America, in order to identify the roots of this new orthodoxy. It finds that economic and administrative criticisms are neither necessary nor sufficient to explain the rise of this new view, which ultimately rests on specific ideological beliefs about the propriety of state welfare
Economic interventionism · Economics · Government (linguistics) · Ideology · Intervention (counseling) · Order (exchange) · Orthodoxy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Welfare · Welfare state · History · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Philosophy · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Citizenship and Welfare
Competent Professionals and Modern Methods
Change and continuity in British voluntary organisations, 1976 to 1988
Social geography
Is America Exporting Another New Social Idea
Crisis, what crisis? The National Health Service since 1948
Departing the margins
Accounts of the NHS reforms
The concept of poverty
Policymaking for social security
Social insurance and allied services
The Fear of Population Decline
European Historical Statistics 1750–1970
The Emergence of the Welfare State in Britain and Germany 1850–1950
The Development of Welfare States in Europe and America
State, Economy and Society in Western Europe, 1815–1975
London Labour and the London Poor
Social Security Financing
Swedish Tax Rates, Labor Supply, and Tax Revenues
Social Security and Private Saving
Social Security, Induced Retirement, and Aggregate Capital Accumulation
Economic Effects of Social Security
The Poor Law Report of 1834
Ideology and Analysis in American Social Security Policymaking
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 2024 (36) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |