MIDDLE CLASS AND WELFARE STATE [electronic resource] : making sense of an ambivalent relationship.
Barbehön, Marlon.
MIDDLE CLASS AND WELFARE STATE making sense of an ambivalent relationship. [electronic resource] : - [S.l.] : ROUTLEDGE, 2020. - 1 online resource - Routledge studies in governance and public policy .
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.
9781000059649 1000059642 9780429319761 0429319762 9781000059700 1000059707 9781000059670 1000059677
Middle class.
Welfare state.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy
HT684
305.5/5
MIDDLE CLASS AND WELFARE STATE making sense of an ambivalent relationship. [electronic resource] : - [S.l.] : ROUTLEDGE, 2020. - 1 online resource - Routledge studies in governance and public policy .
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.
9781000059649 1000059642 9780429319761 0429319762 9781000059700 1000059707 9781000059670 1000059677
Middle class.
Welfare state.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy
HT684
305.5/5