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    The welfare state model should be defended rather than ab... — Carmelics
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    The welfare state model should be defended rather than abandoned

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    • 1.The welfare state model has been proven to work quite well in practice
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    • 2.Alternative models to the welfare state have uncertain prospects
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    • 1.The welfare state structurally concentrates administrative power in ways that erode the civic autonomy Tocqueville identified as essential to democratic self-governance.
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    • 2.Dependency relations created by centralized benefit distribution undermine the republican precondition of non-domination articulated by Philip Pettit.
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    • 1.Hayek's knowledge problem demonstrates that centralized welfare administration cannot efficiently allocate resources because dispersed local knowledge is systematically unavailable to planners.
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    • 2.Empirical success in specific welfare states like Denmark reflects contingent cultural homogeneity rather than the model's generalizable institutional superiority.
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    This welfare state model was developed with great success during the three decades after World War II, especially in Northern Europe, but also, in weaker but significant forms, in other countries (including some in the Global South). However, since the 1980s, this model has been in significant retreat, or even in crisis. Wealth and income inequality have been increasing dramatically during this time (Piketty 2014; O’Neill 2017). The financial sector has become extremely powerful and able largely
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