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RENEWING BRITISH WELFARE
Author(s) -
Marsland David
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0270.00335
Subject(s) - allegiance , antipathy , ideology , welfare state , state (computer science) , politics , welfare , status quo , poverty , political economy , economics , political science , market economy , law , algorithm , computer science
The historical development of the British Welfare State embodied a number of destructive faults which are now major impediments to reform. Devotees of state provision have a dogmatic antipathy to market forces and an ideological allegiance to state welfare as an instrument of egalitarian politics. There is also an active poverty lobby and a huge vested interest in the status quo among state employees. Wholesale denationalisation of the Welfare State apparatus remains imperative.