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The Changing Governance of Welfare: Recent Trends in its Primary Functions, Scale, and Modes of Coordination
Author(s) -
Jessop Bob
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
social policy and administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.972
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1467-9515
pISSN - 0144-5596
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9515.00157
Subject(s) - corporate governance , welfare , welfare state , scale (ratio) , economics , state (computer science) , reproduction , social welfare , economic system , social policy , welfare system , market economy , political science , politics , geography , law , ecology , cartography , finance , algorithm , computer science , biology
This paper discusses four dimensions of the capitalist state's role in economic and social reproduction: its economic and social policy roles, the scales on which these roles are performed, and the modes of governance with which they are associated. It describes the typical postwar welfare regime on these dimensions, analyses the crisis in the governance of welfare that began to emerge in the late 1970s and 1980s, and characterizes the new regime that is tendentially replacing the postwar welfare state.