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David Garland, The Welfare State: A Very Short Introduction

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Vincent
Published date01 April 2019
Date01 April 2019
DOI10.1177/1462474517741241
Subject MatterBook reviews
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Liana Pennington
Saint Anselm College, USA
David Garland, The Welfare State: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press:
Oxford, 2016; 144 pp.: 9780199672660, £7.99 (PBK)
The resilience of the welfare state is remarkable. It has survived national political
contexts, which for decades have been characterized by privatization, economic
austerity and tax cuts. So there is a need to better understand what the welfare
state does and continues to provide. David Garland has written such a text in the
popular Oxford University Press’ Very Short Introductions series. It is a cogent
summary of a wealth of research conducted with the welfare state as organizing
principle. The reader is presented with a condense history of government, written
from the perspective of social insurance, social assistance and social services more
generally. As such, it is a reminder of the continued potency of the nation state and
a welcome corrective to notions...

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