Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 100 for “"The welfare state"”.
-
Multi-dimensional personhood and the welfare state
The welfare state in Britain has been a subject of much ecclesiastical and pastoral concern since (before) its inception, but this interest has not been matched by any comparable and sustained theological engagement. This thesis seeks to redress this by drawing on the thought of William Temple, …
-
Interest groups and policy-making: the welfare state, 1942-1964
This study explores the views of the peak level industrial and labour organisations towards government social policy after the publication of the Beveridge Report in 1942. The reform of state welfare in the 1940s meant that employers and trade unions became more involved in the administration than …
-
Demystifying the welfare state: the case of the Republic of Moldova
<p>During the communist era, Eastern Europe and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) shared a similar welfare system in which welfare states were part of an inseparable political and economic system controlled by a totalitarian power i.e., the Communist Party. After the fall of the USSR, …
-
Deinstitutionalisation of the welfare state: the case of mental health care
no abstract provided by author
-
Wicked problems and the welfare state: Segregation in Finnish urban planning policy
… are growing, presenting a problem for the welfare state ethos. This thesis investigates how urbanplanning policy deals with the 'problem' of segregation in Finland. The four articles study the interrelationship between the social, the physical, and the perceived city and each …
-
Shifting Technologies: Neoliberalization of the Welfare State in South Korea, 1997--2001
"This dissertation is about the neoliberal (sinjayujuui ) transformation of South Korean welfare governance at the historical juncture in which the IMF Crisis converged with Kim Dae Jung presidency. I conducted my research as a member of a temporary research team that assisted the Seoul City …
-
Rethinking the welfare state: towards an alternative to the American welfare state
The contemporary American welfare state is a highly controversial institution plagued with tremendous deficiencies. There is agreement over the entire political spectrum that the current welfare system needs an overhaul, but there is considerable disagreement on how this should or could be …
-
When networks matter : Mexican migrants' access to the welfare state through social ties
1 PDF file (viii, 118 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm)
-
The commodification of higher education in the welfare state of Sweden: exploring the possibilities
For about three decades now the world’s economic systems have mainly embraced a neoliberal paradigm. The precept of this paradigm is, more egocentric than the capitalist philosophy of homo economicus, that it is not enough to have the market determine all human or institutional relations, but that …
-
Administrative Law in the Welfare State: Addressing the Accountability Gap in Executive Social Policy-making
With the rise of the welfare state, democratic, common law governments undertook a new proactive role as social welfare manager; allocating limited health, education, and social services benefits among competing public priorities. In spite of the important impact of this role on the lives of …
-
Has Neoliberalism Affected American Civil Liberties? Examining the Criminal Justice System and the Welfare State
Neoliberalism once started as an economic theory but overtime has developed into an arm of state social control. This thesis asks if neoliberal economic policies have affected civil liberties in the United States and sets out to understand this relationship in several ways. Firstly, by …
-
The British Labour Party and the German Social Democratic Party: Changing Attitudes towards the Welfare State
… our understanding of complex social dynamics. The question this thesis tries to answer is which mechanism led to the change in attitudes of the German Social Democratic Party and the British Labour Party towards the welfare state during the period from 1990 to 2010 and which effects in …
-
Public Agency The encounter between Architecture and the Welfare State in the City Center. London, México, Santiago
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
-
Architecture as an Apparatus of Governance: (British) Architecture from the Welfare State to the State of Neoliberal Workfare
This thesis puts forward the hypothesis that architecture can act as an apparatus of governance and explores the theoretical, spatial, and material implications of this. It examines a specific milieu that of the British welfare state, which it positions as part of the liberal post-war reforms …
-
Child well-being and the welfare state: a comparative analysis of poverty, child care, and child protection across welfare regimes
Welfare states are designed to promote and protect the economic and social wellbeing of citizens through principles of equal opportunity and a more equitable distribution of wealth. While the objective goal of the welfare state is to ensure the security and well-being of its citizens, the extent to …
-
The politics of the welfare state in Japan : political leadership in the policy processes for social services, health care and public pensions
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1987.
-
Reflexões sobre o welfare state e sua construção no Brasil
This study aims to analyze the literature on the welfare state and ascertain to what extent the Brazilian state approaches its features. Through a theoretical and conceptual approach, we want to understand it has been constructed by the Welfare State Public Management in Brazil, in which dimensions …
-
Political Disasters: The Politics of U.S. Disaster Relief, 1927-2005
This study combines the fields of political and environmental history to understand the evolution of federal disaster relief policy in the United States from 1927-2005, specifically the development of US federal natural disaster relief as a component of the welfare state. The institutionalization …
Page 1 of 5