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The Future Challenge to the Past: The Case of the American Welfare State

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

Abstract

This article and its commentaries examine some of the difficulties that confront supporters of the welfare state as they encounter critical opposition which has evolved in the US in recent years. Attention is directed to trends in popular attitudes which seem to produce a more narrow vision of welfare than that usually advanced by advocates and social policy makers, the changing nature of dependency and the unexpected consequences of universal benefit programmes. Different views are presented about how to approach welfare state developments in the US in the late twentieth century.

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Symposium
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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