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Historical Context: How the Past Policies Shape Present Social Policy

Historical Context: How the Past Policies Shape Present Social Policy

Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 12
ISBN13: 9781799809692|ISBN10: 1799809692|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799809708|EISBN13: 9781799809715
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-0969-2.ch001
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Augustine Nduka Eneanya. "Historical Context: How the Past Policies Shape Present Social Policy." Reshaping Social Policy to Combat Poverty and Inequality, IGI Global, 2020, pp.1-12. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-0969-2.ch001

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A. Eneanya (2020). Historical Context: How the Past Policies Shape Present Social Policy. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-0969-2.ch001

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Augustine Nduka Eneanya. "Historical Context: How the Past Policies Shape Present Social Policy." In Reshaping Social Policy to Combat Poverty and Inequality. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-0969-2.ch001

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Abstract

The chapter explores the origin of social welfare policies in welfare states in Western democratic countries. It traces the state of poverty in most Western democracies before the Great Depression of 1930s, and states' interventions with welfare social assistance programs previously handled by communities, churches, and charitable organizations. The chapter, therefore, examines the historical context of social welfare policy, the nature of the welfare state regime, modern welfare state approaches to social welfare policy, and the market and global economies and the welfare state.

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