The Welfare State: Principles, Changes, and Approaches

The Welfare State

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN PRINCIPLES OUTLINED IN BEVERIDGE.....................................................................3
CONSENSUS POLITICS................................................................................................................4
NEW RIGHT AND NEO LIBERALISM.......................................................................................5
THIRD WAY...................................................................................................................................6
COALITION/CONSERVATIVES..................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERNCES...................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
The term ‘welfare state’ is a way of governing by the national government with an aim to
protect and promote the economic and social needs for its citizens. In simple words, the
government is responsible for social welfare of its citizens. Most of the countries establish
programmes that reflects the social welfare such as unemployment insurance, relief of poverty,
welfare payments and others. According to this system, the responsibility of the citizens are in
the hands of the state. Further a welfare state is relies on the principles of equal distribution of
wealth, equal opportunity and public responsibility for those who are unable to maintain basic
needs of life (Wootton, 2018).
However, in new era the increased problems accompanied by the effect of globalization led
to the transformation in the welfare state. Most of the countries opts approaches for the
development and services related to social and health care. The report examines principles laid
down in the Beveridge Report and further compared with the later approach of the welfare state.
MAIN PRINCIPLES OUTLINED IN BEVERIDGE
The Welfare State was introduced with the incoming Labour Government after the
Second World War. According to the principles laid in The Beveridge, the pioneer civil servant
Sir William Beveridge aimed to wipe out the poverty and hardship in the society. The Beveridge
Report received positive reputation during that time and since. Beveridge claimed to offer with
the protection by eliminating the poverty by formulating the famous five giants, which are:-
 Want
 Idleness
 Disease
 Squalor
 Ignorance