In disaster relief, a law professor and sociologist sees the roots of the modern welfare state.

Instead of privatizing Social Security, should we get rid of it? It is possible, of course, that the development of the modern welfare state has been the result of a terrible wrong turn.

It’s ultimately a crisis of the welfare state, which has grown too large to be easily supported economically. People can’t live with it — and can’t live without it.

The modern welfare state has reached a historic reckoning. As a political institution, it hasn't adapted to change. Politics and economics are at loggerheads.

“The Evolution of Modern States” is a significant contribution to the literatures on political economy, globalization, historical institutionalism and social-science methodology. The book begins with ...

Britain’s Labour Party revolts against modest disability reform.

As a modern democracy matures, it shifts from being a nation of makers to becoming a nation of takers. Wealth and power are gradually transferred from those who earn it to those who use the system ...

Although America’s social welfare system may be lacking in relative size, it more than makes up for it with its complexities, according to Christopher D. Howard, William & Mary’s Pamela C. Harriman ...

Midcentury Modern Furniture Owes Its Popularity to the Welfare State Danish design was a product of postwar social democracy.

When the children’s commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza reported to government this week that large numbers of children are ...

Welfare state refers to a concept of government in which the state plays a key role in the economic and social well-being of its citizens.

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) railed against the modern welfare state in dramatic fashion during Wednesday’s Republican presidential debate. Scott was one of seven candidates to take the stage, which ...