Origins of the Welfare State Flashcards
What were the multiple origins of the Welfare state that emerged after WWII ? When we use this concept, what features are associated or related to this state structure ?
What were the general features of Western European model of social democracy ?
Why was the 1942 Beveridge Report so significant in the history of the British Welfare State ?
Why did Churchill’s ouster in 1945 signal in the public’s mood and support for welfare reform ?
What were some of the major structural differences between the Eastern model of welfare and the welfare state in Western Europe ?
To what does the “Keynesian Economics” refer and how is that related to the Welfare State ?
Through what lenses did Stalin view Eastern Europe ? What motivations led him to initiate the Red Terror and install socialism from above there after 1948 ? What were the basic elements of Stalinism ?
How did Eastern European People’s Democracies transform pre-socialist society ? What benefits and costs accompanied Stalinization ?
Why did the principles of welfare germinate quite differently in North America opposed to Europe ?
What various desires were captured in the postwar American notion of “settling down” ?
How was the North American view on socialism and economic reconstruction different from Western Europe ?
How did American businessmen and consumers look to the state to spur the postwar recovery and enable returning GIs and survivors of the Great Depression to enjoy the good life ?
What were the innovations that enabled William Levitt to produce Levittown ? Why did this model for the automobile suburb spread so rapidly throughout North America ?
How did postwar corporations turn towards marketing to stimulate postwar recovery ? How did postwar marketing preach the gospel of consumption and develop new techniques for stimulating demand ?
How did television emerge as the cultural medium of postwar American society ?
