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| Age, class, politics and the welfare state | | Author(s) | Fred C Pampel, John B Williamson |
| Corporate Author | American Sociological Association |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992 |
| Pages | 199 pp (The Arnold and Caroline Rose series) |
| Source | Cambridge University Press, The Edinburgh Building, Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge CB2 2RU. |
| Keywords | Services ; Finance [care] ; Demography ; Social welfare ; Economic status [elderly] ; Theory. |
| Annotation | The authors analyse the relative impact of class and status groups versus demographic composition and political structure on the growth of welfare spending, and the role of older people. Another focus of the study is the effect of welfare spending on income equality. The authors attempt to organise, compare and evaluate competing theories of the structure of the welfare state and its connection to other aspects of the stratification system. Testing these theories requires comparative data and analysis, for which aggregate cross-national data from the United Nations (UN), the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the World Bank are analysed. The conclusion is drawn that a large aged population is a direct and crucial influence on the level of welfare spending. A corollary thesis developed is that the primary beneficiaries of welfare benefits are not the poor, but middle income groups, and that inequality is reinforced by welfare spending. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-921103003 B |
| Classmark | I: QC: S8: TY: F:W: 4D |
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