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Welfare States as Nation States: Some Conceptual Reflections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 October 2005

John Clarke
John Clarke
Affiliation:
Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University E-mail: John.Clarke@open.ac.uk
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Abstract

Social policy has treated welfare states as nation states. Contemporary processes seem to have unsettled the spatial, scalar and social coherence of nation-states. This article examines the challenge of rethinking the relationships of nation, state and welfare. It argues for a transnational conception of both the current remakings of nation, state and welfare, and of their past formations. Such a view casts doubt on the value of the container model of the nation-state, and makes visible the constitutive or nation-constructing role of welfare states.

Type
Themed Section on Transnational Social Policy
Information
Social Policy and Society , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , October 2005 , pp. 407 - 415
Copyright
Cambridge University Press 2005

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