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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 the following: Has public support for the welfare state faded? Can a democratic state provide welfare without producing dependency on welfare? Is a capitalist (or socialist) economy consistent with the preservation of equal liberty and equal opportunity for all citizens? Why and in what ways does the welfare state discriminate against women? Can we justify limiting immigration for the sake of safeguarding the welfare of Americans? How can elementary and secondary education be distributed consistently with democratic values? The volume confronts powerful criticisms that have been leveled against the welfare state by conservatives, liberals, and radicals and suggests reforms in welfare state programs that might meet these criticisms. The contributors are Joseph H. Carens, Jon Elster, Robert K. Fullinwider, Amy Gutmann, Jennifer L. Hochschild, Stanley Kelley, Jr., Richard Krouse, Michael McPherson, J. Donald Moon, Carole Pateman, Dennis Thompson, and Michael Walzer.

Välfärd. --- Welfare state. --- Democracy. --- Public welfare --- United States. --- Bradley, Tom. --- Foundation Programs. --- Inequality. --- Invalid Care Allowance (Britain). --- Janowitz, Morris. --- Kennedy, Robert. --- Kingdon, John. --- Medicaid and Medicare. --- Ryan, Alan. --- accessions tax (Meade). --- aptitudes as resources. --- business as election issue. --- civil and legal rights. --- consumption, behavioral patterns. --- difference principle. --- dispersed inequalities. --- environment and equality. --- envy test. --- gift relationship. --- guaranteed jobs programs. --- highway metaphor of citizenship. --- human investment, welfare as. --- ideology of equal opportunity. --- job disappearance. --- jury duty. --- leisure, enjoyment of. --- liberty, fair value of. --- moral rights. --- negative income tax. --- overtime work, effects of. --- political justice. --- political rights.