Middle Class and Welfare State: Making Sense of an Ambivalent Relationship - Brossura

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Barbehön, Marlon; Geugjes, Marilena; Haus, Michael

 
9781032474649: Middle Class and Welfare State: Making Sense of an Ambivalent Relationship
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ISBN 10: 1032474645 ISBN 13: 9781032474649
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2023

Sinossi

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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Informazioni sull?autore

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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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
2023
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1032474645
ISBN 13 
9781032474649
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
216
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

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9780367322373: Middle Class and Welfare State: Making Sense of an Ambivalent Relationship

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0367322374 ISBN 13:  9780367322373
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2020
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