SOCIAL POLICY

Social Policy: Themes and Issues

Social Policy: Themes and Issues

1. What is meant by the term the welfare state' today in contemporary Britain?

Welfare state is a concept of political science and economic to designating a proposed policy or general model of state and social organization, whereby the State provides certain services or social guarantees to all inhabitants of a country. More than a concept, it is considered that the term is a category designated either practice a set of proposals or a general proposition about how the state should try or can proceed. In political science, the term welfare state is partly different meanings and uses and is considered to be primarily an empirical category for comparative analysis of the activities of modern states. Studies on the welfare state can be divided into those involved in its origin, characteristics, or general function and focusing on the implementation by states of such schemes, and in both cases, both in isolation as a comparative.

Today, the question of the welfare state is the focus of a broad discussion of the fact: The decision of the period favorable to its growth and it is financing (so-called period of war boom). Major changes experienced by companies that practice the welfare state (demographic, sociological, economic, institutional and ideological). Diversity principles and practices claimed by the states and societies in which it was established. The welfare state, means as a general concept, one which corresponds to the state or the Society take responsibility of social welfare and economic development of its members. This responsibility is understood as a comprehensive and universal, because "welfare" is a broad term that applies to all (Slater 2010, 1).

2. What are the essential characteristics of ONE of the following models?

'Liberal' welfare state

Liberals stood for the free market against government regulation. It was used to pacify the lower classes and secure the Kaiser's rule. Liberals sides with the advocates of the welfare state. Liberals, invoking Bismarck, can appeal to adopt welfare legislation by re-describing its benefits on traditional grounds. Liberals defend long-standing institutions like Social Security and Medicare. The liberal would have to take into account the productive realities of the private sector, the costs of entitlements and risks of centralized government. It should be possible, for example, to combine advocacy of a government sponsored safety net, the cause of the Left, with an insistence on personal responsibility as a check against dependency on “the nanny state.” It is designed to be economically efficient. It is targeted to benefit to lower classes. Under the liberal welfare state, market has a significant position. It results in low benefits such as meager benefits of unemployment and retirement.

Liberal offers unequal benefits such as an inferior class is dependent on social benefits. On the other hand, middle class is dependent on higher exclusive benefits. Liberal results in the prioritization of private employment and health care facility. The consequences of liberal welfare state are flexibility towards growing demand; maximal ...