Welfare State

The welfare state is a form of government in which the state protects and promotes the economic and social well-being of the citizens, based upon the principles of equal opportunity, equitable distribution of wealth, and public responsibility for citizens unable to avail themselves of the minimal provisions for a good life. Sociologist T. H. Marshall described the modern welfare state as a distinctive combination of democracy, welfare, and capitalism.As a type of mixed economy, the welfare state funds the governmental institutions for health care and education along with direct benefits given to individual citizens. Early features of the welfare state, …

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FCPP: Frontier Centre for Public Policy · 29 November 2024 English

The result was the fiscal crisis of the mid-1990s, in which the federal government had to cut social benefits to avoid devaluation of the Canadian dollar, and the run-away inflation …

and ethnic minorities; creation of a generous welfare state guaranteeing public education, medical care permanent bureaucracy necessitated by a generous welfare state? Government in Canada now takes up at least unemployment benefits, and other trappings of the welfare state, so too have its percentage of GDP and as needed legalization of drugs, and the elimination of the welfare state. This is an influential element 27 Examining


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 November 2024 English

The Western welfare state model is beset with structural, financial, and moral crises. So-called scroungers, cheats, and disability fakers persistently occupy the centre of public policy discussions, even the part of claimants was written into the basic fabric of the founding statutes of the British welfare state in 1601, and that nothing has subsequently changed. Efforts throughout history to detect and punish

conversation. Moral outrage over the gaming of the welfare state and the underlying benefits system is not, commentary about the supposed ease with which the welfare state is de- frauded, but they do not cause such concerns impact on the finances and standing of the welfare state were established in the founding documents across the full chronological sweep of the welfare state. The second issue relates to the intersecting And finally, I explore the future of the welfare state and underlying concepts of welfare citizenship


CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 12 November 2024 English

1 The Role of Governance in Unleashing the Value of Data The Current State of Global Data Governance Establishing country-level data governance frameworks is an ongoing and complex undertaking. [...] …

significance with the evolution toward a “digital welfare state” (Gupta 2023), which has seen a shift in how Gupta, Asha. 2023. “Digitalisation of the Welfare State: www.biometricupdate.com/202309/kenyan-rights-


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English

Prisoners’ Bodies investigates the history of the Irish ordinary prisoners’ movement and how it was shaped by public discourse, highlighting the lived experiences of individual people in prison.

the prison, integrating it into the civilian welfare state by developing transitional models that included


Queen's University School of Policy Studies · 5 November 2024 English

The Coptic Community became more Has the new government been able to change the policy disappointed with the unfolding of the post- history in dealing with the Copts’ plight? Should …

catalyst for people struggling government in the welfare state (Buccieri et al., with mental illness and addictions


Wilson Center Canada · 18 October 2024 English

Tan and Cochran refer to China having two growth models: investment and exports.3 Exports capture most of the global attention, as earlier debates about the China shock are once again …

transfers amid a “resolute refusal to build a welfare state.” Indeed, even in the “common prosperity” speech


Community Foundation Canada · 16 October 2024 English

7 STATEMENT TERRITORIAL ON JUSTICE, EQUITY, ACKNOWLEDGEMENT DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION The Foundation of Greater Montréal (FGM) wishes to highlight the presence of the The values of justice, equity, diversity and …

«leopard print” pattern (Rose the case with “welfare state” policies in health, education, and Twigge-Molecey


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

Canadian municipalities oversee the country’s most urgent policy areas, yet the constitutional authority of cities to manage their increasing obligations has not kept pace. This volume considers how policy, law, …

“Decentralization, Local Government, and the Welfare State,” Governance 20, no. 4 (2007): 609–32, https://doi


PHABC: Public Health Association of BC · 10 October 2024 English

It is crucial to understand that the concept of affordance means that the specific application is a combination of the material and the social. [...] Indeed, we are in the …

political system, the labor market and the welfare state. 2. The idea that Artificial General Intelligence


UCP: University of Calgary Press · 25 September 2024 English

In a rare convergence of academic and political worlds, Professor Morton draws on his experience as a former cabinet minister and leadership contender, inviting readers into a reflection on Alberta’s …

government—the bureaucracy that administers the modern welfare state—is just as powerful as the elected governments


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