Abstract
Governments in all advanced industrial societies today are hard pressed to find solutions to a series of interrelated economic, fiscal, social and cultural problems facing the welfare state. It is not so much a crisis in the sense that it is an acute condition that a neat surgical operation can soon put right, otherwise the whole welfare state edifice will collapse. Rather it is a chronic condition that will persist for some time and the way out will be through protracted incrementalism rather than comprehensive planning. It is as much a political and an ideological as well as an economic problem and its solution will vary, to a lesser or greater extent, between governments of different political orientations.
A society preoccupied with private production and aggressive sale of consumer goods, however magnificent, is a society that starves its public sector. (Wilensky and Lebeaux, 1958, p. xi)
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George, V. (1996). The Future of the Welfare State. In: George, V., Taylor-Gooby, P. (eds) European Welfare Policy. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24630-4_1
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