The Divided Welfare State
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Today's security-conscious world impedes change. The security lies less in public protections … than in the private practices of employers. Big organizations require rules and create customs; the evolving rules and customs form a protective cocoon around many employees, especially those with long tenure.
In a period of financial constraint combined with a continuity of commitment to the ideals of social protection on which the “welfare state” is premised, the one likely outcome will be that the future of the welfare state will be the invention of institutions that are not public and are not private.
The era of big government is over.
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