Culture and Welfare State

Edited by Wim van Oorschot, Professor of Social Policy, University of Leuven, Belgium, Michael Opielka, Institute for Social Ecology and Birgit Pfau-Effinger, Professor of Sociology, University of Hamburg, Germany

• Contents:1. The Culture of the Welfare State: Historical and Theoretical ArgumentsWim van Oorschot, Michael Opielka and Birgit Pfau-EffingerPART I: CULTURAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE WELFARE STATE: IDEAS OF THE GOOD SOCIETY2. Liberalism, Citizenship and the Welfare StateJulia S. O’Connor and Gillian Robinson3. Social Democratic Values in the European Welfare StatesSteinar Stjernø 4. Conservatism and the Welfare State: Intervening to Preserve Kees van Kersbergen and Monique Kremer 5. Christian Foundations of the Welfare State: Strong Cultural Values in Comparative PerspectiveMichael Opielka PART II: WORLDS OF WELFARE CULTURE6. European and American Welfare Values: Case Studies in Cash Benefits ReformRobert Walker 7. Is There a Specific East-Central European Welfare Culture?Zsuzsa Ferge 8. Welfare Policy Reforms in Japan and Korea: Cultural and Institutional FactorsIto Peng PART III: CULTURAL CHANGE AND WELFARE REFORM9. Cultural Change and Path Departure: The Example of Family Policies in Conservative Welfare StatesBirgit Pfau-Effinger 10. Cultures of Activation: The Shifting Relationship between Income Maintenance and Employment Promotion in the Nordic ContextBjørn Hvinden 11. Unsettled Attachments: National Identity, Citizenship and WelfareJohn Clarke and Janet Fink PART IV: POPULAR WELFARE VALUES AND BELIEFS12. European Scope-of-Government Beliefs: The Impact of Individual, Regional and National CharacteristicsJohn Gelissen13. Popular Deservingness Perceptions and Conditionality of Solidarity in EuropeWim van Oorschot 14. The Values of Work and Care Among Women in Modern SocietiesDetlev Lück and Dirk Hofäcker Index

'. . . the book focuses on a very interesting and important. . . dimension of welfare analysis. . . the book provides a very rich and interesting range of analyses of the complex links between culture and welfare state. It deserves to be read both by advanced undergraduates and academics working in this area, and perhaps should also be read by policy-makers and politicians as a useful corrective to an overly economistic approach to welfare in the straitened years ahead.'