Middle Class and Welfare State

Name: Middle Class and Welfare State
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Middle Class and Welfare StateMaking Sense of an Ambivalent Relationship\nAuthor(s): Marlon Barbehn, Marilena Geugjes, Michael Haus\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367322373, 978-0367322373\nSynopsis\nThis book examines the relationship between the middle class and the welfare state. \n\nTaking an interpretive approach which understands the middle class as a socially constructed category, it combines discourse analysis, welfare state theory, and interpretive policy analysis in an innovative way to investigate how the middle class becomes a meaningful object of public debates and policymaking. Comparing Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, the book reconstructs the prevalent images and meanings of the middle class from each countrys public debates and tracks how the middle classes with their various meanings and characteristics are entangled with the identification of societal problems, the articulation of po.