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1. Why was ‘a welfare state’ introduced after the War (note here that the term welfare state is in inverted commas – i.e. think about to what extent it was, and was considered by contemporaries to be a welfare state.
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Tutorial Week 6: Welfare State 1. Why was 'a welfare state' introduced after the War (note here that the term welfare state is in inverted commas - i.e. think about to what extent it was, and was considered by contemporaries to be a welfare state. Note that the word welfare state is in inverted commas. This is because there has been widespread debate on the right definition of a welfare state. The word itself comes from the German word 'Wohlfahrstaat' - used to express the inadequacies of the social reforms introduced in 1920s Germany. Wolhlfahrstaat 'welfare' remains today a mainly derogatory term used to express centralised means-tested benefit. The term 'social service state' was coined by Beveridge as a response to the something-for nothing connotation related to a welfare state. Recently 'social security' has been used in the US, to express the same thing. Historically, the US Government's low expenditure on social...
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