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The historic tension between voluntarism and statism remains politicized in today’s welfare debates. Voluntarism without state intervention, in accordance with Alexis de Tocqueville’s idea of ‘the slow and quiet action of society upon itself,’1 has become compromised. States increasingly engage with social movements, and vice versa, financially, regulatorily and interorganizationally. This sharpens the question of what organizations and citizens gain or lose by this inter-articulation of ‘sectors’ in what is (utterly ahistorically) called the ‘new mixed economy of welfare’.
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Carroll, E. (2005). Voluntary State-Subsidized Social Insurance in the Advanced Industrialized World since the 1890s: The Nordic Experience in Comparative Perspective. In: Kangas, O., Palme, J. (eds) Social Policy and Economic Development in the Nordic Countries. Social Policy in a Development Context. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230523500_3
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