Modern social politics in Britain and Sweden : from relief to income maintenance

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Modern social politics in Britain and Sweden : from relief to income maintenance

Hugh Heclo

(ECPR classics / series editors, Alan Ware and Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot)

ECPR Press, 2010

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"First published in 1974 by Yale University. Second printing, 1975. First published by the ECPR Press in 2010"--T.p. verso

"With a new introduction by the author"--Cover

Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-342) and index

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Description

Modern Social Politics in Britain and Sweden was the winner of the 1974 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Book Award for the best book published in the United States on government, politics, or international affairs.

Table of Contents

Contents Chapter One - The Union's Course: Between a Supranational Welfare State and Creeping Decay 1 Chapter Two - The Significance of Cognitive and Moral Learning for Democratic Institutions 33 Chapter Three - Democratic Institutions and Moral Resources 49 Chapter Four - Crisis and Innovation of Liberal Democracy: Can Deliberation Be Institutionalised? 73 Chapter Five - Democracy Against the Welfare State? Structural Foundations of Neoconservative Political Opportunities 99 Chapter Six - Toward a New Understanding of Constitutions 129 Chapter Seven - The Political Meaning of Constitutionalism 147 Chapter Eight - Citizenship and Identity: Aspects of a Political Theory of Citizenship 163 Chapter Nine - Competitive Party Democracy and the Keynesian Welfare State: Factors of Stability and Disorganisation 177 Chapter Ten - Main Problems of Contemporary Theory of Democracy and the Uncertain Future of its Practice 199 Chapter Eleven - Constitutionalism in Fragmented Societies: The Integrative Function of Constitutions 211 Chapter Twelve - `Homogeneity' and Constitutional Democracy: Coping with Identity Conflicts through Group Rights 227 Chapter Thirteen - Perspectives on Post-Conflict Constitutionalism: Reflections on Regime Change Through External Constitutionalisation 255 Chapter Fourteen - Is There, Or Can There Be, a `European Society'? 283 Chapter Fifteen - Problems of Constitution Making: Prospects of a Constitution for Europe 301 Chapter Sixteen - Revisiting the Rationale Behind the European Union: The Basis of European Narratives Today and Tomorrow 317 Chapter Seventeen - Citizenship in the European Union: A Paradigm for Transnational Democracy? 341 Chapter Eighteen - The Democratic Welfare State in an Integrating Europe 355 Chapter Nineteen - The Constitution of a European Democracy and the Role of the Nation State 379 Chapter Twenty - The Problem of Legitimacy in the European Polity: Is Democratisation the Answer? 389 Chapter Twenty-One - The European Model of `Social' Capitalism: Can It Survive European Integration? 417 Chapter Twenty-Two - Two Challenges to European Citizenship 449 Chapter Twenty-Three - Europe Entrapped: Does the EU Have the Political Capacity to Overcome its Current Crisis? 471 Index 491

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