9781032474649: Middle Class and Welfare State
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ISBN 10 : 1032474645 ISBN 13 : 9781032474649
Editeur : Routledge, 2023

Synopsis

This book examines the relationship between the middle class and the welfare state.

Taking an interpretive approach which understands the middle class as a socially constructed category, it combines discourse analysis, welfare state theory, and interpretive policy analysis in an innovative way to investigate how the middle class becomes a meaningful object of public debates and policymaking. Comparing Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, the book reconstructs the prevalent images and meanings of the middle class from each country's public debates and tracks how the middle classes with their various meanings and characteristics are entangled with the identification of societal problems, the articulation of political demands, and the construction of welfare policies. Ultimately, it shows how the formation and consolidation of different welfare regimes can be interpreted as specific ways of solving the puzzle of how to incorporate the middle class in the construction of a welfare state consensus.

This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of comparative welfare state research, policy analysis, political sociology, political theory, and European and comparative politics.

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À propos de l?auteur

Marlon Barbehön is Research Assistant (Postdoc) at the Institute of Political Science, Heidelberg University, Germany.

Marilena Geugjes is Research Assistant at the Institute of Political Science, Heidelberg University, Germany.

Michael Haus is Professor of Modern Political Theory at the Institute of Political Science, Heidelberg University, Germany.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1032474645
ISBN 13 
9781032474649
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
216
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9780367322373: Middle Class and Welfare State

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ISBN 10 :  0367322374 ISBN 13 :  9780367322373
Editeur : Routledge, 2020
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