📗 Libro en inglés THE FUTURE OF THE WELFARE STATE: CRISIS MYTHS AND CRISIS REALITIE S

Francis G. Castles

Castles (social and public policy, U. of Edinburgh) has assembled, systematized, and updated arguments from articles and books he has written in recent years on the future of the welfare state. Here he focuses on 21 OECD countries over the period 1980-98 in order to base his projections about what is likely to happen to the Western welfare state in the future on what has been happening in the near past. His topics include crises, myths, and measurement; a race to the bottom; the structure of social provision; A European welfare state convergence; explaining expenditure outcomes; populating aging and the public purse; birth-rate blues as a possible real crisis in the making; and towards a steady-state welfare state.