From Welfare State to Caring Society?: The Promise of Informal Support Networks

摘要: The future of the welfare state is more uncertain now than at any other time in post-war period. exact extent and nature “crisis” hotly contested will do doubt preoccupy numerous academics for several years to come. It beyond doubt, though, that goals apparatus assumptions underlying it are currently undergoing most sustained critical onslaught which they have ever been subjected. Underlying this re-examiniation a weakening and, some instances, breakdown political consensus on forged immediate chief opponents public services argue such stifle individual initiative, divert scarce resources from private investment inhibit freedom choice. In place proposed both privatisation community provision — corporate care.