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The Welfare State

Edited by Anders Kreuger

Graphic Design: Pieter Boels

Published by M HKA

2015
ISBN 978-90-728-2852-1
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Contents

  1. 1.
    Introduction
    Anders Kreuger
  2. 2.
    Catalogue: Stephen Willats, Josef Dabernig, Róza El-Hassan, Francisco Camacho Herrera, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Artūras Raila, Kajsa Dahlberg, and Donna Kukama

The welfare state has, generally speaking, become synonymous with the synthesis of a market economy and active government that characterises both 'Western' and 'emergent' societies today. Yet there is little agreement among the many who operate and observe public social policy – politicians, civil servants, trade union leaders, social scientists, journalists, the public at large – about how the welfare state could or should be defined in more precise terms.