The Welfare State in Historical Perspective

CLAIM CONNECTIONS / 3

Where this source is used

• Welfare State names a disputed institutional category in which public authority alters exposure to market and life-course risks through income guarantees, social insurance, assistance, services, regulation, or financing.

  • supports · pp. 228–231

• Researchers and public bodies attribute social provision to risk pooling, consumption smoothing, poverty relief, redistribution, labor-force participation, social investment, political incorporation, legitimation, or social control; the institutional label does not decide among these purposes.

  • supports · pp. 228–230, three directions of state action

• The 1942–1951 British sequence shows proposal, enactment, and institutional assembly; it does not establish uniform access, outcomes, one coherent ideology, or a model followed elsewhere.

  • supports · pp. 221–228, history and variable uses of the term