The Expansion of Regulation in Welfare Governance

Avishai Benish and David Levi-Faur

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2020, vol. 691, issue 1, 17-29

Abstract: This article provides an historical and theoretical account of the emerging regulatory welfare state, which is greatly understudied in contemporary regulatory and welfare research. We analyze the interplay between the welfare state and the regulatory state in an age in which regulation is expanding through liberalization, privatization, and the new public management of social services. We then provide a multi faceted framework for understanding the regulatory welfare state and discuss its implications in terms of 1) the normative social goals of the state; 2) the ways in which social policy is delivered through institutions; and 3) the implications of the framework for individuals’ rights and duties.

Keywords: welfare state; regulation; governance; social services; social benefits; privatization; social rights (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1177/0002716220949230

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