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Realignments in the Welfare State - Softcover

Ruggie, Mary

 
9780231104852: Realignments in the Welfare State
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0231104855 ISBN 13: 9780231104852
Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1996

Synopsis

This text explores the changing role of the state in Canada, Britain and the USA in the area of health care. Welfare systems have survived, in many cases, by experimenting with alternative forms of delivering services - this book focuses on how these models signal both persistence and transformation.

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From the Back Cover

As Mary Ruggie demonstrates in this illuminating study, the welfare state is not collapsing; instead, federal governments are redefining their roles in relation to social and market forces. Chronicling the evolution of health policy in the United States, Britain, and Canada, this presents evidence that central governments, rather than merely passing off responsibilities for financing and providing social benefits to the private sector, are actively overseeing a complex network of social care as they move from a system of provision to one of supervision.

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Publisher
Columbia University Press
Publication date
1996
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0231104855
ISBN 13 
9780231104852
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
336