Politics Regulation And The Modern Welfare State
Politics Regulation And The Modern Welfare State By Jacob Torfing
1998 | 312 Pages | ISBN: 0333659570 | PDF | 4 MB
1998 | 312 Pages | ISBN: 0333659570 | PDF | 4 MB
This work presents an alternative theoretical approach to the study of the transformation of the modern welfare state. It draws upon the undogmatic Marxism of Gramsci in order to deconstruct the Marxist tradition and develop a general theory of capitalist regulation which emphasizes the primacy of the political. In doing so, it seeks to integrate French regulation theory and British state theory within the broader framework of discourse analysis. This theoretical framework is applied in an empirical analysis of the Danish variant of the Scandinavian welfare state model.