Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- About the author
- Preface
- 1 Three roads
- 2 The invention of laissez faire
- 3 Utopian socialism
- 4 Reform liberalism and technocracy
- 5 Catholic social thought versus modernity
- 6 The case for social democracy
- 7 Social engineering versus democracy
- 8 The rise of neoliberalism
- 9 European Christian democracy
- 10 Legacies
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 May 2022
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- About the author
- Preface
- 1 Three roads
- 2 The invention of laissez faire
- 3 Utopian socialism
- 4 Reform liberalism and technocracy
- 5 Catholic social thought versus modernity
- 6 The case for social democracy
- 7 Social engineering versus democracy
- 8 The rise of neoliberalism
- 9 European Christian democracy
- 10 Legacies
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
Summary
The book grew out of two decades of teaching social policy at University College Dublin and out of my interest in intellectual history. It is dedicated to the memory of two deceased colleagues who were also good friends.
I began this book following many years of discussion about comparative social policy with my friend Dr Michael Rush who had been my doctoral student and was a brilliant social policy lecturer. He died while the book was at an early stage and I miss our conversations very much.
Professor Gabriel Kiely was Head of the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at UCD when I began teaching at the university. My background was in European studies and I had just completed my doctorate in the Department of Politics and Sociology at Birkbeck College in the University of London. Gabriel commissioned my first ever social policy publication, a chapter on the mixed economy of welfare for a book he was editing, which set me on the path that led to this book.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Three Roads to the Welfare StateLiberalism, Social Democracy and Christian Democracy, pp. v - viPublisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2021