Welfare State

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Welfare State
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Squaring the Welfare Circle
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Welfare State
Human needs being met by state
Health Care
Education
Income maintance
Full employment
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REDISTRIBUTION
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Universality
Entitlement
How does one decide?

• Means tested?
• Needs tested?
• Income tested?

Legitimizes
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Perform economic management with specific social
and political goal in mind.
Industrial to Post Industrial Economy
Activist state
A child of democracy
Welfare State
Post WWII/Depression
Laissez-faire
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variables
History
Ideology
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Extensive Welfare State
Limited Welfare State
U.S.A
Sweden
Canada
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Classification of Welfare States
During1980s
(Universality) I.e Scandinavia
Social Democratic Regimes
(Means-tested) I.e Canada
Liberal Welfare States
(Social Rights) I.e Austria
Corporatist Regimes
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Role of the State
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1966
Universal Health Care (NDP Tommy Douglas)
1965
Canada Pension Plan
E.P.F
C.A.P
Canada spends below OECD average
1952
Old Age Pension
1945
Family Allowance
1941
Government programs (welfare, Unemployment
Insurance)
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Macroeconomics
Western Nations


labour
Govt
Business
Demand Management
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1970s economic policy not as successful
STAGFLATION
Fiscal Crisis
Government Spending
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Redistribution of Wealth
TAX BASE
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• FACTS...
• 1984 corporate tax raised 8 per cent
• 1984 citizen tax raised 45 per cent
• 1984 sales tax raised 67 per cent

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DOWNSIZING
Fiscal Crisis
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HOW?
Consensus among ideologies policies
ECONOMIC LIBERALS (CONSERVATIVES)
Laissez-faire
Reform
LIBERALS
Private Property Market Economy
RADICAL SOCIALISTS
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Fiscal Crisis
ALSO OTHER FACTORS...
Free Trade
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Who is affected?
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K
Information Society
Digital Society
Post-Industrial
Industrial
EDUCATE / RE-TRAIN
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Points to Ponder
Social Conscience
What do we owe others?
Who are the winners/losers?