The rise of nontraded services undermines this specialization and increases demands for more flexible labor markets."--BOOK JACKET.

Democracy, Capitalism, and the Welfare State investigates political thought under the conditions of the postwar welfare state, focusing on the Federal Republic

What has brought about the widespread public provision of welfare and income security within free-market liberalism? Some social scientists have regarded welfar

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The essays in this volume explore the moral foundations and the political prospects of the welfare state in the United States. Among the questions addressed are