TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilensky,Harold L.
TI  - The welfare state and equality: structural and ideological roots of public expenditures 
SN  - 05200290089
U1  - 361 
PY  - 1975///.
CY  - Berkeley : 
PB  - University of California Press, 
KW  - Economía del bienestar
KW  - ESTADO DE BIENESTAR
N1  - Bibliografía : p. 139-147; 51868
N2  - onservatives commonly complain that the welfare state punished the diligent and rewards the idle, while it transforms everyone into a dependent client of the government. Radicals and others argue that the welfare state fails to reduce poverty, achieve equality, or promote social justice. Professor Wilensky, who is engaged in long-term research designed to infuse this debate with empirical substance, here offers a first report on his findings. Using social security as a test case, the author explores two basic problems in the study of rich (or post-industrial) first, the interplay of affluence, economic system, political system and ideology; second, the effect of social organization on the behavior of political elites
ER  -