The idea of the welfare state, that is of a state tangibly committed to the economic welfare of the citizens, became progressively established in western thought in the twentieth century. Running counter to the tradition of thought in which politics and economics were two separate and independent spheres, various political cultures pressed for an acknowledgement of social rights and the duty of the state to intervene to protect the weaker brackets of the population. The first of these was social democracy, followed by a liberalism which became increasingly "social" in line with Christian thought, through to the phenomenon of the "totalitarian welfare state", when even absolutist states elaborated policies designed to incorporate the proletariat in the national order.
This book is part of a larger work intended to address the issue of the welfare state in contemporary political thought. Following the volume dedicated to the nineteenth century (FUP 2007), this book deals with the period from the turn of the century up to the formulation of one of the most consummate and organic projects of welfare state ever conceived: that elaborated by Beveridge in England during the Second World War.
THE THREE VOLUMESI:
Lo stato sociale nel pensiero politico contemporaneo
L'Ottocento
Lo stato sociale nel pensiero politico contemporaneo. Il Novecento
Parte prima: Da inizio secolo alla seconda guerra mondiale
Lo stato sociale nel pensiero politico contemporaneo. Il Novecento
Parte seconda: dal dopoguerra a oggi
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-4474-7419
Book Title
Lo stato sociale nel pensiero politico contemporaneo. Il Novecento
Book Subtitle
Parte prima: Da inizio secolo alla seconda guerra mondiale
Authors
Claudio De Boni
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
188
Publication Year
2009
Copyright Information
© 2009 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-8453-891-8
ISBN Print
978-88-8453-890-1
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-8453-891-8
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-886-7
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919