Minimizing inequality in a market economy: implications for Eastern Europe in transition
The central question which this article addresses is: ’How can Eastern European nations minimize inequality as they move in the direction of a market economy?’. The answer that most countries with market economies have devised is: ’Through the creation of a welfare state.’ It is important to emphasize the idea of minimizing inequality rather than eliminating it; no economic or political system has totally eliminated inequality, and none is likely to do so. The most one can hope for is that inequality will be contained sufficiently to prevent the society from becoming a nation of gross
The Welfare State: Still on Solid Ground
The welfare states of North America and Western Europe have seen slower growth and even cutbacks during the 1970s and 1980s. Critics on the Right blame the faulty ideology behind "social engineering." The Left points to the fundamental incompatibility of the welfare ideology with capitalism. I argue that the slowdown in growth is a decision made by the middle of the political spectrum. Conservative and moderate political victories of the period have not given conservatives a mandate for the dismantlement of the welfare state. At the same time, the voters have rejected the Left's extreme view of "substantive equality."
Seeing Like a Racial State: the Census and the Politics of Race in the United States, Great Britain and Canada
ii Acknowledgements iv List of Abbreviations vii List of Tables ix List of Appendices x Chapter 1 Invitation 1 Chapter 2 Orientation 26 Chapter 3 Mark One or More: Census Politics in the United States 61 Chapter 4 The Ethnic Question: Census Politics in Great Britain 115 Chapter 5 (In)Visible Minorities: Census Politics in Canada 168 Chapter 6 Seeing Like a Racial State 234 Chapter 7 Alternatives and Outcomes in the Census Policy Sphere 310 Chapter 8 Conclusions 364 Reference List 382