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Is the welfare state justified? /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Is the welfare state justified? // Daniel Shapiro.
Author:	Shapiro, Daniel,
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 323 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Welfare state. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511619120
ISBN:	9780511619120 (ebook)

Is the welfare state justified? /
Shapiro, Daniel,1954-

Is the welfare state justified? /Daniel Shapiro. - 1 online resource (xi, 323 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Introduction -- Justification in political philosophy -- Internal versus external arguments -- Clarifying the institutional alternatives -- Coming attractions -- Central perspectives in political philosophy -- Justice, equality, and fairness -- Basic rights, liberty and well-being -- Community and solidarity -- Public justification and epistemic accessibility -- Health insurance, part I -- The topic's importance -- The institutional alternatives -- Egalitarianism and NHI -- Risks and choices : egalitarian reasons for MHI -- Rationing, visibility, and egalitarian outcomes : why market allocation is better -- Why the priority view agrees with the egalitarian support of MHI -- Health insurance, part II -- Basic rights and the right to health care -- The content of the right -- The grounds of the right to health care -- Health care and communitarianism -- Public justification, information, and rationing -- Conclusion : the reasons for MHI's superiority -- Old-age or retirement pensions -- The institutional alternatives -- Egalitarianism, fairness, and retirement pensions -- Positive rights and security -- Community, solidarity, and pension systems -- Public justification, epistemic accessibility, and the superiority of private pension -- Conclusion -- Welfare or means-tested benefits, part I -- Introduction -- Different kinds of state welfare -- Nongovernmental aid -- Egalitarianism and welfare-state redistribution -- Why prioritarianism agrees with egalitarianism about welfare policy -- Will private charity be enough? -- Welfare or means-tested benefits, part II -- The right to welfare -- Communitarianism and welfare -- Public justification, epistemic accessibility, and welfare -- Conclusion : the uncertain choice between state and private conditional aid -- Conclusion -- Introduction -- The problems with SS and the transition problem -- The Cato plan -- The Brookings plan -- Comparing the two plans -- Where things stand.

In this book, Daniel Shapiro argues that the dominant positions in contemporary political philosophy - egalitarianism, positive rights theory, communitarianism, and many forms of liberalism - should converge in a rejection of central welfare state institutions. He examines how major welfare institutions, such as government-financed and -administered retirement pensions, national health insurance, and programs for the needy, actually work. Comparing them to compulsory private insurance and private charities, Shapiro argues that the dominant perspectives in political philosophy mistakenly think that their principles support the welfare state. Instead, egalitarians, positive rights theorists, communitarians, and liberals have misunderstood the implications of their own principles, which in fact support more market-based or libertarian institutional conclusions than they may realize. Shapiro's book is unique in its combination of political philosophy with social science. Its focus is not limited to any particular country; rather it examines welfare states in affluent democracies and their market alternatives.

ISBN: 9780511619120 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

556240
Welfare state.

LC Class. No.: JC479 / .S53 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 330.12/6

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