Modern Social Politics in Britain and SwedenModern Social Politics in Britain and Sweden was the winner of the 1974 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Book Award for the best book published in the United States on government, politics, or international affairs. “[Heclo] painstakingly analyses the evolution of income maintenance policies
over the past 100 years in Britain and Sweden in an effort to explain why these
policies evolved as they did. He thus poses a question of fundamental importance
to both policy and political science and he produces an answer which is neither
obvious nor dramatic but which is original, discriminating, and persuasive. His
book is an unusually judicious combination of political theory, historical
research, comparative method, and policy analysis. And not to be overlooked is
the fact that all this is expressed in a crisp, literate prose style, of the
sort which has unfortunately become, somewhat rare in our profession. Modern
Social Politics represents a major contribution to the discipline on not one but
several fronts and stands as a model of how political scientists can tease out
of history answers to the question: why?” Samuel P. Huntington, Chairman of
the Award Committee |
Contents
1 | 21 |
17 | 41 |
Support for the Unemployed | 65 |
The Struggle for Old Age Pensions | 155 |
From Pensions to Superannuation | 227 |
Social Policy and Political Learning | 284 |
The Rediscovery of Inequality | 323 |
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