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- Title
Does risk society erode welfare state solidarity?
- Authors
Taylor-Gooby, Peter
- Abstract
An influential literature suggests that the transition from modern industrial society is accompanied by an erosion of solidarities. Everyday life risks become understood as issues of personal failure and responsibility rather than social problems to be addressed through collective action. A corresponding welfare literature analyses the way policy change highlights individual responsibility and proactivity as a result of the constraints on government from globalisation, post-industrialism and other changes. This article uses recent attitude data to investigate whether risk society dissolves traditional welfare state solidarities, and how far it offers a basis for new solidarities to maintain support for vulnerable groups.
- Subjects
RISK society; WELFARE state; PUBLIC welfare policy; GLOBALIZATION &; society; POST-industrial society theory; SOCIAL groups
- Publication
Policy & Politics, 2011, Vol 39, Issue 2, p147
- ISSN
0305-5736
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1332/030557310X519641