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100			_aLynch, Julia _93815
245		0	_aAge in the Welfare State: The Origins of Social Spending on Pensioners, Workers and Children
260			_c2006 _bCambridge University Press, _aCambridge et al.,
300			_a246 pages
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520			_aThis book asks why some countries devote the lion's share of their social policy resources to the elderly, while others have a more balanced repertoire of social spending. Far from being the outcome of demands for welfare spending by powerful age-based groups in society, the 'age' of welfare is an unintended consequence of the way that social programs are set up. The way that politicians use welfare state spending to compete for votes, along either programmatic or particularistic lines, locks these early institutional choices into place. So while society is changing - aging, divorcing, moving in and out of the labor force over the life course in new ways - social policies do not evolve to catch up. The result, in occupational welfare states like Italy, the United States, and Japan, is social spending that favors the elderly and leaves working-aged adults and children largely to fend for themselves.
650			_asocial expenditure _9231
650			_awelfare state _9188
650			_afamily allowances _96880
650			_aold age pensions _96881
650			_aunemployment benefits _96882
651			_aItaly _91709
651			_aUSA _96883
651			_aJapan _9649
856			_uhttps://www.cambridge.org/core/books/age-in-the-welfare-state/26648D059F7D2C3A85381B7B13CD43F9#fndtn-contents _yPublisher's website
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