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Part IV - The Formation and Future of the American Welfare Regime
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Summary
Today's security-conscious world impedes change. The security lies less in public protections … than in the private practices of employers. Big organizations require rules and create customs; the evolving rules and customs form a protective cocoon around many employees, especially those with long tenure.
– Robert J. Samuelson, “Make Room for the Individual,” 1981In a period of financial constraint combined with a continuity of commitment to the ideals of social protection on which the “welfare state” is premised, the one likely outcome will be that the future of the welfare state will be the invention of institutions that are not public and are not private.
– Martin Rein, 1989The era of big government is over.
– President Bill Clinton, 1995- Type
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- The Divided Welfare StateThe Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States, pp. 271 - 274Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002