Welfare States and Democracies

A Multi-Voice Dialogue

Edited by Ilaria Pavan and Irene Stolzi

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Extent: 150 pages

Publisher: Viella – libreria editrice

Subjects: Social Sciences 

Series: Viella Historical Research

Series volume number: 28

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(March 2025)

ISBN: 9791254699300

Price: $34.00

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This volume brings together a series of essays that address the question of the configuration of welfare systems after 1945. The authors herein examine not only the role the war played in the transformation and implementation of social policies which has been explored in the historiography for many other European areas but also the complex of cultural, political and legal influences that helped orient such processes.


This volume brings together a series of essays that address the question of the configuration of welfare systems after 1945. The authors herein examine not only the role the war played in the transformation and implementation of social policies which has been explored in the historiography for many other European areas but also the complex of cultural, political and legal influences that helped orient such processes. The focus is mainly on the Italian experience, which is nevertheless analyzed with regard to the transnational dimension of dialogue between models and chronologies, also relevant in determining the different weight attributed, across welfare systems, to private and public subjects.

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  • Irene Stolzi, Introduction
  • Giacomo Canepa, Yesterday's Charity, Today's Justice? Catholics and the Right to Assistance in Postwar Italy
  • Silvia Inaudi, Social Welfare in Italy between the Postwar Period and the Cold War: The Circulation of Knowledge and Transnational Models
  • Chiara Giorgi, Universalism and Public Service in Italy's Health Policies
  • Simone Torricelli, The Structural Transformation of the Economic Public Services System: Misaligned Plans and Asynchronous Processes
  • Irene Stolzi, Private and Public, Private or Public? A Historical-Legal Outline
  • Lorenzo Pacinotti, The Beveridge Report: The Founding Manifesto of the Welfare State
  • Sebastian Martin, A Short History of the Social State in Spain: From the Fuero del Trabajo to the ""Social and Democratic State"" (1938-1983)

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  • Edited by Ilaria Pavan
  • Edited by Irene Stolzi