The modern social welfare state was invented by Otto von Bismarck in the mid-19th century.
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Repeat: The 2008 presidential has the potential to turn America sharply toward a European social welfare state model.
The limited government of Jefferson became the runaway military government of Lincoln, and later the all-powerful social welfare state of Franklin D.
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The majority of Danish politicians intuitively believe that capitalists are an unpleasant necessity to generate the revenues to fund the social welfare state.
So if there is no hope for reforms of the welfare society, the next question must be whether capitalism can exist or co-exist in the long-term in a social welfare state.
Both main blocs campaigned on a promise of strengthening the welfare state and social justice.
The incumbent uses all the resources of the state money, vehicles, buildings for his campaign, and he has branded state social-welfare programmes as his own personal gift.
For the most part, he has made Labour electable by adopting many of the Tories' own policies and, just as notably, much of their attitude, in economics, in social policy, on the welfare state, in dealing with crime, even on Europe and the single currency (the official Tory policy on Europe, that is).
She was also Municipal and State Secretary of Social Welfare.
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Yet for a Social Democratic party traditionally wedded to fortifying the welfare state, they constitute a mini-revolution.
For the most part, Europe no longer seems capable of doing much more than finding ways to control an unaffordable welfare state without tearing about its social net.
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We also focus on those social entrepreneurs that do not do what the welfare state is doing, but rather what the welfare state should be doing, or providing complimentary services to such a state.
Both parties champion the vast, federal welfare state and advocate government solutions to social problems better solved privately.
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The same point holds on the reform of the welfare state, whether for health, social security, education or pensions.
But they reveal little understanding of the complex interest-group politics and broader meaning of Medicare in America, as a social insurance program, as a pillar of the liberal welfare state, as a force in the lives of millions of people.
Lavish public spending on infrastructure and other projects made up the backbone of Mr. Bo's leftist "Chongqing model" of development, which promoted a strengthening of state-owned enterprises alongside a host of social welfare programs.
This article, Updating the Welfare State: Marriage, the Income Tax, and Social Security in the Age of the New Individualism by Professor Anne Alstott of Yale University proves that.
In our generous society, the bottom fifth does receive a lot of transfer income from government programs, such as Social Security retirement and disability payments, federal, state and local welfare programs, education assistance, etc.
Whereas Beveridge envisaged the welfare state as an attack on five negative giants, the social investment state should have positive aims such as the reduction of environmental toxicity.
Mr Bush is challenging not only the assumption that the welfare state grew up in the 20th century to address the social problems private charities were unable to meet.
But if the bank rescue results in further reductions of social welfare funds, or if it is a prelude to the bailout of the state, the government risks unleashing social protest in a way existing social movements may not be able to channel.
Uruguayans are generally proud of their welfare state, which has helped to give them some of the best social indicators on the continent.
That undershoot was largely due to lower-than-expected spending on social security payments, which departments cannot easily control (though the Secretary of State for Welfare and Pensions would say he has helped to keep unemployment down.) But ministers have also over-delivered when it comes to squeezing administrative budgets.
Old tax-and-spend habits, picked up over decades as Sweden cushioned its people with the kindest welfare state in the world, had apparently been discarded as new-look, fiscally tight Social Democrats waged war on public debt.
Then and there Lloyd George laid the foundations of the welfare state on which Labour later built a larger structure, according to the architecture of those two social liberals, Beveridge and Keynes.
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