Abstract
Over the whole post-war period, social policy has been dominated by one factor, the redistribution of wealth. Indeed, some would say that the welfare state is simply a mechanism for redistribution, whether through cash or through services: in this view, social policy is egalitarian or it is nothing.
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Raison, T. (1990). Responsibility and the Underdog. In: Tories and the Welfare State. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10346-1_12
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