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Compare and contrast Marxists, Feminist, Functionalists, Third Way and New Right views of the welfare state The "welfare state" usually refers to an ideal model of provision, where the state accepts responsibility for the provision of comprehensive and universal welfare for its citizens. The term 'welfare state' in the United Kingdom was suggested, following the second world war, to represent a vast expansion of state involvement in the provision of social welfare. The objectives of the welfare were announced in 1942 by Sir William Beveridge, based around the theory of economist J.M Keynes, the architect of the post-war welfare reforms, as the abolition of 'Want, Idleness, Squalor, Ignorance and Disease', by which Beveridge meant poverty, unemployment, poor housing, and lack of access to decent health and education services. The major pillars, therefore,of the sought welfare state were a National Health Service which provides free health care to all citizens, education that was...

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