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Democracy, Justice, and the Welfare State:

Reconstructing Public Care
  • ISBN-13: 9780271020037
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Julie Anne White
  • Price: AUD $67.99
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  • Local release date: 01/10/2000
  • Format: Paperback 192 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Political economy [KCP]
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The commitment to “end welfare as we know it” shaped public policy in the 1990s. Analysts all seemed to agree that public welfare programs were a resounding failure. What should better public care look like?

Democracy, Justice, and the Welfare State sets up a dialogue between work on the ethic of care and studies of public care in practice. White argues that care as it is currently institutionalized often both assumes and perpetuates dependency and so paternalistic relationships of authority. Better public care requires that such paternalistic practices be challenged. Care appropriate to a democratic context must itself be a democratic practice.



“This book works well for students, other academics, and practitioners interested in welfare policy, particularly for those with political theory background.”

—Mark C. Shelley, II, Perspectives on Political Science

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